LAUSD analysis: Trivializing achievement standards won’t fix learning gaps

By Take Back San Jose | March 24, 2026

June 29, 2022 Former classroom teacher Larry Sand examines California’s academic achievement crisis and the Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) laughable roadmap to correct it. Since 2021, the LAUSD doesn’t penalize absences, late work, inadequate engagement, or inappropriate behavior. Additionally, Sand critiques the California Department of Education’s highly deprecated “Mathematics Framework,” where getting the…

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School choice isn’t enough?: conceptualizing worthwhile education in the free market

By Take Back San Jose | March 24, 2026

September 20, 2024 Raphael: The School of Athens, 1509-1511. Image in Public Domain While politicians continue to differ on school choice, First Freedom Foundation’s Michael D. Dean, Esq., reminds that a “free market education system” is inevitably riven by a conflict between claims of state and parental sovereignty. Who gets to influence the influencers? And though neither…

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Fixing school inequities

By Take Back San Jose | March 24, 2026

☆ Silicon Valley has a “staggeringly unequal” school system. Can “Grading for Equity” solve it? Special Reports March 24, 2026 California’s schools promise every student a quality education, yet that’s belied by dismal disparities between districts and racial groups. So says Gus Mattammal, author of A is for Average, who argues policies like “Grading for Equity”…

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