Charter Privatization Debate At WCCUSD Board Meeting& Beller's Caliber Charter School

by Labor Video Project

Wed, Aug 3, 2016 3:39PM

Parents, teachers and students spoke out against vulture capitalist Ron Beller's Caliber charter school buying the Adams Middle School in Richmond with over 8 acres for $60,000. Beller and his wife Jennifer Moses were hedge fund speculators and their fund Peloton went bust in 2008 which touched off the collapse of the world economy. They now want to take over land owned by the WCCUSD and build a non-union charter school.

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Charter Privatization Debate At WCCUSD Board Meeting In Richmond & Ron Beller's Caliber Charter
The West Contra Costa Unified School District on August 2, 2016 was forced to hold a a hearing on the proposed sale of the Adams Middle School site to Ron Beller's Caliber charter for $60,000. The lawyers had been in secret negotiations with Beller to push the sale but when the community and neighbors of Adams Middle School discovered who Beller was and what the Caliber charter school would mean to the community there was a backlash.
The United Teachers of Richmond UTR have come out in opposition to the sale and passed a resolution calling for an education campaign against charters and privatization.
The new superintendent Matthew Duffy from New Leaders also has financial connections to Beller through Josh Lewis who was on the New Leaders Board and a business partner of Ron Beller and his wife Jennifer Moses who are speculators in eduction technology which they are also using on their students as well as "blended learning".
The school lawyers are also negotiating to only have some union trades in the construction of the new charter school and the United Brotherhood Of Carpenter's organizer Tim Lipscomb said that the entire school construction job should be done union.
Although this was an official school board meeting Duffy did not have the meeting recorded for viewing by the voters of the district later.
Interview by WorkWeek Radio
Additional media:
http://files.ctctcdn.com/c5bd42c6001/6b873bf4-5f20-4c5a-80f3-10405aecf0ef.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cayreXf6ynM
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http://citylimits.org/2009/06/01/the-education-business-teachers-missing-at-the-top/
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/100569798
http://www.caliberschools.org/who-we-are.html
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Interview by WorkWeek Radio
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§WCCUSD Superintendent Matthew Duffy From "New Leaders"

by Labor Video Project

Wed, Aug 3, 2016 3:39PM

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The new superintendent Matthew Duffy of WCCUSD comes from the pro-charter privatization operation "New Leaders". This outfit is involved in privatization of education like the Broad Foundation. Also on the board is Josh Lewis who is in business of Caliber owner's Ron Beller and Jennifer Moses on education technology ventures. Now Duffy will be in charge of "negotiating" with Beller for the Adams Middle School.
Duffy also did not video tape the meeting for the voters of the WCCUSD who were unable to attend the meeting.

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§Adams Middle School

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Wed, Aug 3, 2016 3:39PM

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Ron Beller wants the Adams Middle school with over 8 acres for on hill top prime location for $60,000.

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§Ron Beller And Jennifer Moses

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Wed, Aug 3, 2016 3:39PM

Multi-millionaires Ron Beller and his wife Jennifer Moses say that they cannot afford union labor to build the charter school they want at the Adams site. They also voted to eliminate the CalSTRS pension plan and forced the teacher to take a 401K. Beller claims he does not know what the CalSTRS pension system was and that is a question for lawyers.

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§Not For Sale

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Wed, Aug 3, 2016 3:39PM

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Community people and teachers in Richmond said that their school system is not for sale. They also talked about the destruction of community schools by the proliferation of more and more charters which are interested in students for profit. Also the board members could not get a report on the results of Beller's charter test score results. The lawyers said that was "confidential".

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Charter Privatization Debate At WCCUSD Board Meeting& Beller's Caliber Charter School

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