Sakshi Jain, yet some other in a long line of nihilistic charter school scammers, once idea she would start a school, GANAS Academy, in the City of Carson, authorized past LAUSD and to be colocated on the campus of public elementary schoolhouse Catskill Unproblematic. But the customs saw through her lies and fought dorsum against them and Jain ultimately had to abandon her unholy plans and slink dorsum to her lair in disgrace.

It has been clear all along that Jain had no one'southward merely her ain best interests in mind and that placing human being children in the custody and care of such a callow grifter was an awful idea, but details of what she was planning for her victims have been few. Nosotros did acquire recently from a grant awarding Jain submitted to the California Department of Education that she believed in stringing together empty words about putative excellence, although again, what this would hateful for the actual children wasn't clear:

… rigorous academics, character development, and customs appointment, GANAS Academy Charter School educates students in kindergarten through fifth form for academic success, placing them firmly on the path to college. GANAS Academy believes that all students – regardless of zero lawmaking, race, or socioeconomic status – deserve access to a high-quality education that prepares them for success in college and career.
But recently I obtained some really interesting 2017 information from CD15 about what Jain had in mind. Buscaino's office was involved at that point because Jain originally planned to colocate her infernal school in Wilmington, which is in the City of LA in CD15, so she was cultivating relationships with them. To this end, on Oct 1, 2017 Jain emailed Buscaino staffer Fernando Navarette and cultivated with all her damn might:
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Somehow, fifty-fifty though it makes no freaking sense any, we are continually asked by innumerable mobs of kool-aid-drunken pro-lease ideologues to believe that somehow their damnable publicly funded private schools are more efficient 1 than publicly run public schools. Thus, the statement goes, we are lucky to be able to funnel public money and other valuable avails to them for their supernaturally efficient use in the pursuit of what they're pleased to present as public appurtenances.

But just logically, theoretically, fifty-fifty without reference to facts, how could this possibly be true? Like how does it make sense to pay the supreme commander of some random charter school out in Northwest Zillionaireville a significant fraction of a zillion dollars in substitution for her skilled elite commandery when we're already paying Austin Freaking Beutner an as significant fraction of a zillion dollars for his every bit elite equally skilled commanderistic talents? How many damn commanders do we even demand?

In any instance, that's the theoretical no-facts-needed version of the anti-charter-efficiency statement. But, equally you no dubiousness know, the very bespeak of this blog, the 1 thing that sets it apart from your average raving Internet lunacy, 2 is facts! Facts as reflected in public records! All this blather, like the blather you lot're reading now, exists for no real purpose beyond filling out the blank space around the links to the records.

Like for instance, this link to a contract between Sakshi Jain, supreme commander and founding heroine of the lately placed-on-hiatus GANAS Academy, and some guy named Ed, whose LinkedIn profile identifies him every bit an educational consultant. The purpose of the contract is to appoint Ed'southward services to recruit students to attend Jain's star-crossed but nevertheless self-proclaimedly world-class individual school. And what is almost amazing to me is that Ed is to be paid per piece. Non a joke. Eight Hundred And 50 Freaking Dollars per student signed up.
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Yep, the headline has the story! Here's the groundwork! Noted galaxy encephalon Sakshi Jain is starting a charter schoolhouse in the City of Carson. Information technology's chosen GANAS Academy, and it'southward putatively going to co-locate on the campus of the well-beloved neighborhood schoolhouse Catskill Uncomplicated. But the Catskill folks aren't taking this quietly. They're kicking upwards a damn storm, and rightly so! And I'thou investigating right and investigating left and investigating all over the place considering who tin gaze approvingly upon themselves in the damn mirror in the damn forenoon if they're not doing something to thwart these damn privatizers?!

And of course I'm doing my small part past wielding the California Public Records Act like, well, like the California Public Records Act. And in May I got a bunch of emails from the privatizers, and one in detail, this from January 2019, is an important part of the story I'm telling in this mail service. Therein, you lot see, amongst other admonitions, did Sakshi Jain admonish her audition thusly: " If you take non already done so please make your meaningful contribution to the school. The amount of this donation is an amount that is meaningful to you and is not shared with any other board members."

And a claim similar that, that it's possible for an agency similar Jain'due south crackpot little charter school that's subject to the CPRA to keep this kind of crapola secret just because their weirdo sense of what passes for propriety amid zillionaires and their willing servants suggests that they ought to do, well, I can't resist exposing their self-proclaimed but exceedingly putative secrets to the world.

And then that very 24-hour interval, the very day I read the e-mail, I popped off this request for records to Jain and her lawyer, the bizarre but weirdly well-dressed little dude known in some circles equally H. Wayne Strumpfer, who is of counsel 1 to the world's most privatizing law business firm, Young, Minney, and Corr, asking for the damn donation records.
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Hither'due south more on the anti-colocation battle being fought by a brave and devoted band of teachers and parents at Catskill Elementary Schoolhouse in the Urban center of Carson against impending plans to install upstart charter schoolhouse GANAS Academy on their campus. I have been investigating this story using requests made to GANAS via the California Public Records Act. 1 And only recently these GANASsholes handed over a trove and a one-half of goodies. You can read nearly the video over here, and today we're talking about the emails, which, equally always, are where the serious action is. Browse them yourself, of course, or download the whole damn stack of them, right hither on Archive.Org. 2

And today I'm just going to run through a few highlights with transcriptions and a little light commentary. They paint a revealing picture of the effect that the anti-co-location protests have been having on GANAS, with at least 1 board member having resigned when he became aware of the intensity of the antagonism towards his charter schoolhouse. They also show the growing anxiety, shading into abject paranoia, of galaxy-brained GANAS founder and head of school 3 Sakshi Jain as it became increasingly clear to her that she was in for a long and bitter struggle, and that in that location wasn't actually much aid forthcoming from either LAUSD or the California Charter School Association.
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I don't know if you've been following the thrilling tale of privateering charter schoolhouse Ganas Academy, its astoundingly unsympathetic founder Sakshi Jain, its misbegotten plans to co-locate at the well-loved Catskill Elementary School in Carson, and the refreshingly vigorous boxing existence waged by a brave and devoted band of parents and teachers pushing back against the privatizers. But if and then, well, today I have an interesting chip of information on one episode in the struggle.

It seems that on March 27, 2019, Sakshi Jain and her co-locationist co-conspirators were holding a coming together of some kind at a Denny'southward in Carson. And the Catskill supporters showed upwards to protest. And considering she hates the public realm Sakshi Jain didn't appreciate this. She didn't similar information technology one fleck. And then, in the m tradition of life-denying totalitarians everywhere, she called 911 on the protesters.

And today I am pleased to nowadays to you a re-create of that 911 telephone call! You tin can listen to it here on YouTube, and download it here on Archive.Org in whatever format suits your needs. one And it'due south really heartening, really. Jain tells the dispatcher that in that location are protesters at this Denny's and the dispatcher keeps telling her that protesting isn't illegal and they won't be able to exercise anything.

Jain can hardly believe her ears. She keeps saying that information technology's a private event! In a private Denny'south! 2 That she paid for! None of this is surprising coming from a woman who hates the public realm so much that she wants to make a living past privatizing public schools, but it's a footling shocking to hear it said out loud.

And I also have a re-create of what the responding deputies sent to dispatch when they closed out the call, which was that they didn't do anything because the protesters weren't breaking the law. If you lot don't feel similar playing the audio at that place's a transcription right afterward the suspension!


Dispatcher: Howdy, this is Sheriff'due south [unintelligible], how tin can I help you lot?

Sakshi Jain: Hi, I'm at a Denny's in Carson and nosotros're having a private event that is existence bombarded past protesters who are harassing us and making videos.

Dispatcher: OK, I'll send deputies out in that location just you know protesting is not illegal. Simply I will…

Sakshi Jain: [interrupting] We empathize but we're at a private consequence so they're trying to crash it.

Dispatcher: I'll transport someone out there but like I said I don't think nosotros'll be able to brand them leave simply I'll send someone out there to talk to you lot guys, OK?

Sakshi Jain: OK. They're within too, so that'southward why… They're inside a private Denny'south and like our guests can't come in now.

Dispatcher: OK. And practise you own Denny's? Are you working at that place? Or are you just at that place having the event?

Sakshi Jain: No, no, no. I'grand paying for an effect.

Dispatcher: OK. What's the address in that location?

Sakshi Jain: Alright, excuse me? The address? Yeah, hold on one second.

Dispatcher: And what'southward your name while you're getting it?

Sakshi Jain: My name is ■■■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■■■■ and one second. It's in the Carson Plaza Drive.

Dispatcher: And what's your telephone number?

Sakshi Jain: ■■■■■■■■■

Dispatcher: OK, I'll send someone out there to talk to you lot guys.

Sakshi Jain: Thank you.


Prototype of Sakshi Jain on her bullshit is ©2019 MichaelKohlhaas.Org and she looks fifty-fifty crazier in the damn original!