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Wrap-around services for kids from low-income families are essential leg to the…

December 12, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Wrap-around services for kids from low-income families are essential leg to the tripod of well-trained teachers and a culture of high expectation and support. We can do this. We must elevate children’s well-being in word and deed and make budgets speak…

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"Restorative justice" to address youth misdeeds instead of automatic expulsion -…

December 12, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

“Restorative justice” to address youth misdeeds instead of automatic expulsion — here’s a successful program in San Francisco schools. –Cyn cc MOMocratsSan Francisco lets students own up to misdeeds rather than face expulsionwww.iwatchnews.orgInstead…

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A troubling in-depth report on Kern County, CA tracks the disproportionately hig…

December 12, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

A troubling in-depth report on Kern County, CA tracks the disproportionately high student expulsion rate among black & Latino schoolkids: “According to raw numbers supplied by the Kern High School District, students identified as Latino, who are today …

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A thousand times YES — use data to track inequality & "grade" public officials…

December 12, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

A thousand times YES — use data to track inequality & “grade” public officials accordingly on how well they reduce poverty, imprisonment, crime, and unemployment. Reduce those ills & students will succeed.A superintendent calls school reformers’ blu…

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Data-obsessed "ed reforms" seem to be fixing what ain't broke at the venerable B…

December 12, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Data-obsessed “ed reforms” seem to be fixing what ain’t broke at the venerable Bronx High School of Science in NYC.A Bronx Science Experimentnymag.comWhen principal Valerie Reidy turned the city’s legendary high school into a laboratory, her reforms …

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Want to raise student achievement & ensure more kids are ready for careers/colle…

December 12, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Want to raise student achievement & ensure more kids are ready for careers/college? Make sure they come to school well-fed & healthy. The time for trendy, data-driven “ed reform” is over. When 25% of American kids live in poverty or experience food in…

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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 […]

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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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