An LAUSD Star is Born

“This Governing Board is held accountable to traditional public schools first.”

- Tyler Okeke

In a system where money is considered speech, those who cannot afford to buy a microphone are at a disadvantage. As the teachers’ union and the charter school industry spend millions influencing LAUSD elections, the students the District is supposed to serve struggle to have their voice heard. Fortunately for them, their lone representative on the School Board, Tyler Okeke, spoke for them at last Tuesday’s Board meeting in a voice that could not be ignored.

While the Charter School Industry was admonishing the Board with slogans such as “kids, not politics” in an attempt to prevent the passage of a resolution calling for a moratorium on new charter schools, it was the charter operatives who were using students as pawns. With a misinformation campaign that left families fearing that all charter schools were suddenly in danger of closure, an emotional gathering of students bussed in by their charter schools descended upon LAUSD’s Beaudry headquarters. Okeke addressed them directly:

“This resolution does not eliminate choice. Charters will still operate. Your child will still have a…