Action alert via @FundEducationFL: “Tomorrow morning, the House Education Committee will vote on the so-called Parent Empowerment Act and the Charter Expansion bill. Measures in both turn our hard-earned tax dollars and public assets over to for-profit…
Archives for February 15, 2012
200,000 petitions asking to save adult education and a raft of other LAUSD educa…
200,000 petitions asking to save adult education and a raft of other LAUSD education/social service programs. Safe — for now.Jose Lara at Feb 14 LAUSD Board meetingwww.youtube.com
Analysis of CA's Prop 39 & how it's enabled some charters to take over (push out…
Analysis of CA’s Prop 39 & how it’s enabled some charters to take over (push out?) existing public schools. How did charters become “more equal among equals”?District: Charter law forced school’s closurewww.ocregister.comIn Capistrano, however, these s…
A charter/neighborhood co-location has ended w/the charter taking over the neigh…
A charter/neighborhood co-location has ended w/the charter taking over the neighborhood elementary’s building & dispersing the public elementary’s students. What happened to the insights of charter schools being incorporated back into existing schools,…
Uh, #schoolnutritionFAIL. That toddler had a perfectly healthy lunch, don't you…
Uh, #schoolnutritionFAIL. That toddler had a perfectly healthy lunch, don’t you think? School Lunch Guidelines: Preschooler Told Homemade Turkey Sandwich Not Nutritious Enough, Given Nuggwww.huffingtonpost.comA preschool student at West Hoke Elementary…
K-12 marketplace sees major flow of venture capital — not all of this bodes well.
K-12 marketplace sees major flow of venture capital — not all of this bodes well.K-12 Marketplace Sees Major Flow of Venture Capitalwww.edweek.orgIndustry observers attribute the rise to heightened interest in ed-tech initiatives, decreasing technolo…
Transitional kindergarten funding is in question, despite Brown signing it into…
Transitional kindergarten funding is in question, despite Brown signing it into law. Fall babies would get an additional year of kinder, helping them get ready for elementary school. Parents and community members are upset at having to cancel plans to …
Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond: CA needs less testing, more assessing. She describes…
Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond: CA needs less testing, more assessing. She describes the difference between the two.Viewpoints: For California schools, we need less testing and more assessing – sacbee.comwww.sacbee.comThere is a saying that American student…
Neoliberal/conservative truism: starve government to create a self-fulfilling pr…
Neoliberal/conservative truism: starve government to create a self-fulfilling prophecy that govt is ineffective & the private sector should be brought in to improve or replace inadequate public services. This blogger relays how she found out SES, suppl…