Sara Roos
LATEST ARTICLES BY Sara Roos
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Environment
Will partisan politics squelch the strongest water advocate in Southern California?
June 4, 2021Climate change remains a thing and Los Angeles remains governed, as always, with intense political maneuverings surrounding that most vital elixir of them all—water.
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U.S.
Only way to go: Single-payer healthcare gave me back my life
April 14, 2021I have personal experience with single-payer health care, directly contrasting treatment for the same medical diagnosis under the U.S. for-profit private insurance formula with Canada’s single-payer paradigm.
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U.S.
L.A. School Board has Wall Street wolves guarding the henhouse
November 13, 2020It’s high time to be paying closer attention to the $14.7b (p. 31) of taxpayers’ money that COVID-19 has left in essentially the sole charge of Los Angeles United School District Superintendent, Austin Beutner.
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U.S.
Corporate consultants Bain & Company size up Los Angeles schools
May 21, 2020While families have been scrambling to homeschool, the District’s Superintendent and former investment-banker Austin Beutner has sought guidance from the world of corporate management consulting.
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Opinion
L.A. schools superintendent Austin Beutner: Agent of privatization
January 23, 2019He helped privatize Soviet socialism, now he's doing the same with L.A.'s schools.
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