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Marshall Tuck is not qualified to be CA

State Superintendent of Public Instruction
If you live in the State of California, under no circumstances consider Marshall
Tuck for State Superintendent of Schools. Neoliberal education privatizer Tuck
is angling for Torlakson's seat, but the only thing he should be doing is a
lifetime of hard labor for crimes against the students and families of Los
Angeles. Tucks callous and racist closure of heritage language programs and
ethnic studies programs at PLAS must be brought up over and over, not to
mention his abject failure at Green Dot Corporate Charters. Non-educator
Marshall Tuck should never be allowed near schools ever again!

The Crucial Race for State Superintendent in California |

Diane Ravitch's blog
dianeravitch.net/2014/06/01/the-crucial-race-for-state-superintendent-in-california/
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The race for State Superintendent of Education in California pits veteran

educator Tom Torlaksonwho has held the job since 2010against Marshall
Tuck, who is closely associated with the privatization movement. A third
candidate, Lydia Gutierrez, is notable in the race for her opposition to
Common Core. With the unions supporting Torlakson and the business
sector behind Tuck, Gutierrez is considered a long shot.
The election will be held on June 3.
Gary Cohn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, profiled the two
men.
Cohn writes about Marshall Tuck:
The 40-year-old Tuck is a Harvard Business School graduate who has
worked as an investment banker for Salomon Brothers and as an executive
at Model N, a revenue-management software company. He is a former
president of Green Dot Public Schools, a charter school operation in Los
Angeles, and later served as the first head of the Partnership for Los
Angeles Schools former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosas controversial
education nonprofit that tried to improve 17 low-performing public schools,
with mixed results.
Tucks candidacy is supported by the same mix of wealthy education
privatizers, Silicon Valley and entertainment money, hedge fund and real
estate interests that backed privatization candidates in the 2013 Los Angeles
Unified School District school board election when billionaire businessmen
such as Eli Broad and Michael Bloomberg gave large campaign contributions
to an unsuccessful effort to defeat board member Steve Zimmer. (The Broad
Residency, an education management program operated by the Broad
Foundation, lists Tuck as an alumnus.)
Torlakson, by contrast, takes pride in his years as a teacher. Torlakson is a
veteran science teacher and track coach. Torlakson, who is still a teacher on
leave from Contra Costa Countys Mount Diablo Unified School District, says
he usually teaches one community college course every year. He was
elected as Californias 27th State Superintendent of Public Instruction in
2010 after serving in the state legislature.
Tuck supports the parent trigger law, which allows a simple majority of
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www.schoolsmatter.info/2014/05/marshall-tucks-legacy-of-bigotry-and.html
Robert D. Skeels, writing in L.A. Progressive, rips Marshall Tuck for closing
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Marshall Tuck Betrays Latino and African American Parents

thewire.k12newsnetwork.com/2014/10/21/marshall-tuck-betrays-latino-and-african-american-
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By Cheryl Ortega, Director of Bilingual Education,

UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles). Cheryl
Ortega taught for 38 years in kindergarten and primary
education bilingual programs in LAUSD. She currently
serves on the Board of Directors of UTLA as Director
of Bilingual Education.

Banker Marshall Tuck put student lives at risk by

terminating Health Education
atthechalkface.com/2014/10/15/banker-marshall-tuck-put-student-lives-at-risk-by-terminating-
Added by rdsathene 6 months ago

To reduce sexual risk behaviors and related health problems among youth,
schools and other youth-serving organizations can help young people adopt
lifelong attitudes and behaviors that support their health and well-being
including behaviors that reduce their risk for HIV, other STDs, and
unintended pregnancy. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

At a time with Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) running rampant,

business banker Marshall Tuck shut down all HEALTH EDUCATION classes
at the schools he managed, putting students health at serious risk. Tuck
says he has a kids first agenda, but his actions proved otherwise. When
bankers run schools, students lives take a back seat to corporate profits.
Stop banker Marshall Tucks agenda! Vote for the teacher instead.
Eli Broad-trained neoliberal operative Marshall Tuck is running for
Californias Superintendent of Public Instruction seat. The former Wall Street
banker Tuck has never taught a day in his life, and has no background in
pedagogy or child development, but he is financed by the corporate
education plutocracy. Despite being the most profoundly unqualified
candidate for the office, this backing by reactionary billionaires has made for
the possibility of him being elected. The doting corporate media has
recklessly ignored the dismal performance of the schools he managed, the
astonishing remediation rates of students he claimed were college ready,
his racist shuttering of Ethnic Studies programs, and his closure of
Heritage/Dual Language Programs. All in all, Tucks record has been one of
failure and bigotry.
Around this time of year in 2012, when I was running for school board at Los
Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), a community AIDS group reached
out to me and explained an urgent situation with health classes. According to
them, The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools (PLAS) administration,
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Angeles Times, there is some credence to the statement. Regardless of the
Added by rdsathene 6 months ago
exact reason, we know for fact that Tuck eliminated all health education
classes from PLAS when he was their CEO. That callous act by Tuck is not
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Syphilis Cases sign on a bus bench by my law school. It reminded my of
Tucks vacuous #CAbytheNumbers Twitter campaign where he rails against
the state of California schools (not mentioning his were among the absolute
worst of course). The Tuck campaign tweets banalities like: #1 in wine
production, #45 in education. CA is a great state. Its time we had great
schools. Suddenly I remembered that he had shuttered all health education
at PLAS, and I knew I needed to tie the concepts together. The above meme
image is the result of that epiphany.
From the May 20, 2012 Los Angeles Times:
Schools also are supposed to teach such topics as nutrition, safety, mental
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PLAS was one of a number of Los Angeles schools (mostly also privately
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managed charters) that dropped health classes altogether. John Deasy
wanted to follow suit, but the elected LAUSD school board prevented him
"You give those brown kids some books about brown
from doing so. PLAS has an unelected board, and hence no one to protect
folks and what happens?Those brown kids change the
students and community from unilateral decisions by corporate executives
world." - Sherman Alexie California might be poised to
like Tuck. When the Times questioned Tuck on his imprudent decision, he
take Arizona's crown for having an unabashed white
responded:
supremacist in the position of State Superintendent of
Less than 10% of our kids are at grade level in math, said Marshall Tuck,
Public Instruction (SSPI).
head of the mayors Partnership for Los Angeles Schools. If you dont get

Marshall Tuck endorsed discredited and disgraced John

Deasy
thewire.k12newsnetwork.com/2014/10/18/marshall-tuck-endorsed-discredited-and-disgraced-j
Added by rdsathene 6 months ago

Plagued by multiple scandals, missteps,

mismanagement, and allegations of possible
malfeasance, discredited and disgraced John Deasy
resigned in ignominy from the post of Los Angeles
Unified School District's (LAUSD) Superintendent on
October 16, 2014.

Markham MS Community to Protest PLAS Policies started

under Marshall Tuck
k12newsnetwork.com/blog/2014/05/20/markham-ms-community-to-protest-plas-policies-starte
Added by rdsathene 11 months ago

Former PLAS CEO Marshall Tuck's school-to-prisonpipeline legacy for children of color lives on in the
policies he established at Markham Middle School.
However, the community is tired and fighting back!
African-American and Latino parents/students to unite
with Community groups and United Teachers Los
Angeles (UTLA) to speak out against discriminatory
practices against African-American students, parents,
and stakeholders at local middle school.

Marshall Tuck run schools SAT scores remained flat, some

even declined
thewire.k12newsnetwork.com/2014/08/22/marshall-tuck-run-schools-sat-scores-remained-flat
Added by rdsathene 8 months ago

Marshall Tuck's campaign literature claims "Marshall

has run two of California's most innovative school
systems, improving... student achievement levels in
tough neighborhoods" However, achievement data
from the schools he ran at both Green Dot Charter
Corporation and Partnership for Los Angeles Schools
gives lie to Tuck's latest outrageous claim.

Tell Marshall Tuck to stop book banning and killing

cultures. Don't let Tuck turn California into Arizona!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RohyYIXQyxA
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Schools Matter: PLAS CEO Marshall Tuck and Mayor

Villaraigosa bring Arizona style bigotry to Los Angeles
www.schoolsmatter.info/2012/07/mayor-villaraigosa-and-plas-ceo-tuck.html
Added by rdsathene 1 year ago

"We had an African American woman walk up to us and say 'why do you
need Ethnic Studies?', and we looked at each other and said, 'that's exactly
why we need Ethnic Studies!'" - Santee Students speaking at PLAS protest.

solidaridad: LA Times writes a story on a Marshall Tuck

PLAS school and then pins blame on LAUSD?
rdsathene.blogspot.com/2010/03/la-times-writes-story-on-marshall-tuck.html
Added by rdsathene 1 year ago

New depths have been plumbed by the vouchercharter happy publication on 1st Street. In " A lesson
about speaking up" Mr. Hector Tobar writes a
deservedly critical piece on one of Marshall Tuck,
Ryan Smith, and Antonio Villaraigosa's monstrosities
and then squarely blames LAUSD without mentioning
it's a PLAS school.

Will California Elect an Educator or an Investment Banker

as State Superintendent of Education? | Diane Ravitch's
blog
dianeravitch.net/2014/03/10/will-california-elect-an-educator-or-an-investment-banker-as-stat
Added by rdsathene 1 year ago

California is in the midst of a crucial election for State Superintendent. This

article by Gary Cohn describes the players and the context.
On one side is experienced educator Tom Torlakson, who is running for reelection.
On the other side is Marshall Tuck, graduate of Harvard Business School,
investment banker, former leader of Green Dot charter schools. He is a
strong supporter of privatization of public education and has attracted support
from the usual crowd of entrepreneurs, millionaires, billionaires, etc.
California now has more charter schools than any other state in the nation. If
Tuck wins, the privatization movement will gain a major stronghold.
Start here to understand the setting for this crucial campaign:
An election campaign now being fought almost completely out of public view
could radically alter the way Californias school children are taught. If
Marshall Tuck unseats incumbent Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom
Torlakson, the states public education system could become a laboratory for
a movement that prizes privatization and places a high value on student test
scores over traditional instruction. The contrasts between the two top
contenders in the nonpartisan race could not be more dramatic nor could
the stakes for the countrys largest education system.
The 40-year-old Tuck is a Harvard Business School graduate who has
worked as an investment banker for Salomon Brothers and as an executive
at Model N, a revenue-management software company. He is a former
president of Green Dot Public Schools, a charter school operation in Los
Angeles, and later served as the first head of the Partnership for Los
Angeles Schools former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosas controversial
education nonprofit that tried to improve 17 low-performing public schools,
with mixed results.
Tucks candidacy is supported by the same mix of wealthy education
privatizers, Silicon Valley and entertainment money, hedge fund and real
estate interests that backed privatization candidates in the 2013 Los Angeles

Dan Changs dark money SuperPAC now switches to

funding Marshall Tuck
thewire.k12newsnetwork.com/2014/08/15/dan-changs-dark-money-superpac-now-switches-t
Added by rdsathene 8 months ago

Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) is now chair of the

education committee in the Senate Health, Education,
Labor, and Pension committee, and has officially
opened the door to reauthorization of No Child Left
Behind (NCLB, also known as the ESEA, the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act).

Charter Advocate Seeks to Oust Tom Torklakson | Diane

Ravitch's blog
dianeravitch.net/2013/08/26/charter-advocate-seeks-to-oust-tom-torklakson/
Added by rdsathene 1 year ago

California State Superintendent of Schools Tom Torlakson is

one of the best education leaders. As an experienced classroom
teacher, he knows what teachers and students need. As a veteran of
the Merchant Marine, he has a steady hand on the tiller. As a
former legislator, he knows how to work with the legislature. He
had the wisdom and foresight to avoid Race to the Top, knowing that
a win would cost the state $3 billion to comply with federal
mandates. Naturally, the billionaires cant stand Torlakson because
they dont control him. Worse, he does not share their ideology of
blowing up public education and calling it innovative. So they
are running a candidate against Tom Torlakson. He is Marshall Tuck, who
ran Mayor
Villaraigosas 15 schools and compiled a mediocre and unimpressive
record. He has also been president of the Green Dot charter chain.
One of Tucks big issues: he wants teachers to be evaluated by student test
scores.
This is a bad policy that has led to teaching to the test,
narrowing the curriculum, and firing good teachers who teach the
neediest children. With the support of the corporate reformers,
eager to privatize as many public schools as possible, Tuck can
count on big money from the big-money guys who tried to unseat
Steve Zimmer (and lost) and then got beaten by a teacher with no
outside funding, Monica Ratliff.
Tom Torlakson deserves to be
re-elected. He is a fighter for kids, teachers, and public
education. He understands the importance of public education in a
democracy.

A Great Divide: The Election Fight for Californias Schools |

CAPITAL & MAIN
capitalandmain.com/a-great-divide-the-election-fight-for-californias-schools/
Added by rdsathene 1 year ago

Why Marshall Tuck, Candidate for State Superintendent of

Schools, Is The Wrong Choice
thewire.k12newsnetwork.com/2014/10/14/why-marshall-tuck-candidate-for-state-superintende
Added by rdsathene 6 months ago

By Cheryl Ortega, Director of Bilingual Education,

UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles). Cheryl
Ortega taught for 38 years in kindergarten and primary
education bilingual programs in LAUSD. She currently
serves on the Board of Directors of UTLA as Director
of Bilingual Education.

rdsathene, STOP MARSHALL TUCK! If you live in the

State of...
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Schools Matter: Perfidious Petruzzi calls for accurate

evaluations of Green Dot Charter Corporation?
www.schoolsmatter.info/2011/09/perfidious-petruzzi-calls-for-accurate.html
Added by rdsathene 1 year ago

"The lowest-performing, based on test scores, is the

large Green Dot chain." - Los Angeles Times There
are some serious issues with Howard Blume and
Sandra Poindexter's article entitled "L.A. Unified bests
reform groups in most cases, data shows," but when
the charter charlatans exposed in the piece start to
foam at the mouth with hubris and hypocrisy, they
need to be shown up for what they really are.
rdsathene: Bear in mind that while Petruzzi has been heading the
Green Dot corporate ship to the ocean floor for years now, he did
inherit ten schools from Marshall Tuck's "leadership." Among those
ten are some of the ones discussed in the article above.
1 year ago

Picasa Web Albums - Robert D. Skeels

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Professional educator Lydia Gutierrez versus profit minded

businessman Marshall Tuck
rdsathene.blogspot.com/2014/03/professional-educator-lydia-gutierrez.html
Added by rdsathene 1 year ago

I'm currently not endorsing anyone in the race for

California State Superintendent of Public Instruction,
but there is one individual whose life-long mission to

destroy public education must be stopped. That

individual is reactionary businessman Marshall Tuck.

Marshall Tuck's Legacy of Failure and Bigotry - google

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Marshall Tuck
www.laprogressive.com/marshall-tuck-unqualified/
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"Tuck will most likely have a huge pot of money in his

war chest coming from the likes of billionaire boys
clubbers like Broad, DFER and other corporate
reformers." - Professor Mike Klonsky Many of us
hoped that when right-wing business banker Marshall
Tuck was ignominiously forced to step down as the
"CEO" of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools
(PLAS), that we might have heard the last of Tuck
altogether.

solidaridad: Marshall Tuck's legacy of institutional racism at

Markham MS so bad, that U.S. Congress expresses
concern
rdsathene.blogspot.com/2014/05/marshall-tucks-legacy-of-institutional.html
Added by rdsathene 11 months ago

Marshall Tuck's legacy of institutional racism at

Markham MS so bad, that U.S. Congress expresses
concern #LAUSD http://t.co/3uuDvcRgHB - Robert D.
Skeels (@rdsathene) May 29, 2014 Marshall Tuck's
legacy of institutional racism at Markham MS is so
bad, that congresspeople are now concerned.

solidaridad: Marshall Tuck's Dropout Factories

rdsathene.blogspot.com/2014/05/marshall-tucks-dropout-factories.html
Added by rdsathene 11 months ago

Marshall Tuck's Dropout Factories by Robert D. Skeels

Marshall Tuck, who ran Mayor Villaraigosa's 15
schools and compiled a mediocre and unimpressive
record. He has also been president of the Green Dot
charter chain. - Professor Diane Ravitch Having to
take remedial high school courses after arriving at the
university is also very demoralizing for students.

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VOTE FOR TUCK!!

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