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#OccupyBigEd: "….how for-profit colleges survived the threat of a major federa…

December 10, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

#OccupyBigEd: “….how for-profit colleges survived the threat of a major federal crackdown offers a case study in Washington power brokering. Rattled by the administration’s tough talk, the colleges spent more than $16 million on an all-star list of…

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Presidential hopeful Santorum insists on breaking up families through deportatio…

December 10, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Presidential hopeful Santorum insists on breaking up families through deportation even as businesses withdraw from Alabama due to the draconian anti-immigrant law they’ve enacted. Separating citizen children from their undocumented parents is cruel, & …

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Kimberley Beatty Op-Ed: A Day Later and A Few Billion Dollars Short

December 10, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

“Uncommon courage” has proven nonexistent among our legislative representatives. All 28 Republican assembly members, including Nathan Fletcher, have signed and abided by the Grover Norquist anti-tax pledge and almost all Republican state senators have signed the pledge, creating gridlock in our state capital that has led to Faustian bargains and draconian cuts to education and other services to children and families. The report also stated, “Everyone professes to put students first. But collectively, the results suggest otherwise.”

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Quick Education Voter’s Guide to the California CD34 Race, April 4, 2017

There are twenty-three candidates running to fill former Congressman Xavier Bacerra’s seat in Congressional District 34 in Southern California. (Bacerra is currently the state’s Attorney General, replacing Kamala Harris, who, after November 8, 2016, became our US Senator.) Election Day is Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 7:00 am to 8:00 pm. You can find your polling […]

Betsy DeVos, #NOTMYSDOE

Take the pledge to #resist and fight for public schools as a public good TODAY. DeVos had to have the assistance of Vice President Mike Pence’s unprecedented tie-breaking vote in order to win her confirmation. Two GOP Senators voted against, all Democratic Senators voted against. Yet all the other GOP Senators who received campaign donations […]

Next #DemDebate MUST Include K-12 Education Policy

The next #DemDebate is scheduled for the important primary state of Iowa on November 14, 2015. It’ll be broadcast by CBS in partnership with the Des Moines Register. Professor Julian Vasquez Heilig is leading the call for the families of 50 million students K-12 across the nation and the communities they live in to have […]

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