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Open Letter to President Obama — The One Book You Should Read on Public Education: Reign of Error, By Diane Ravitch

September 20, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

by Cynthia Liu Dear President Obama, You must read Professor Diane Ravitch’s latest book, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools. You won’t like it. No one likes reading about their failures. And that’s exactly WHY you should read it. Your legacy is at stake. You […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Curriculum, Educators, Federal Policy, NCLB, Parents, School Boards, School Districts, State Education Law, The Testing Industry Tagged With: Ravitch, Reign of Error, review

About those LAUSD iPads…

September 16, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

Another reader of K12NN writes in to say: “If you think that LAUSD is paying too much for the iPads, then what are the alternatives? Many would think that a Surface Pro (the Surface RT has too little horsepower) would be the way to go. But now Micro$oft would pay $200 to any iPad switcher: […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Ed Tech, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, State Education Law, The Testing Industry Tagged With: CCSS, LAUSD

Four Key Questions All Parents Should Ask About Tablet Use in LAUSD Classrooms

September 16, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

Dear Los Angeles Unified School Board Members: I’m a private citizen who cares about Public Education. I question the District’s decision to equip every student and teacher with an i-Pad, presumably for pedagogical purposes. These devices are appealing in many ways. I have one. But they don’t replace full-function computers, applications and networking software. I […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Common Core, Ed Tech, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, The Testing Industry Tagged With: CCSS, LAUSD

Open Letter to LAUSD Board Members Regarding iPad Purchases

September 16, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

The following letter was sent to the LAUSD Board (emails below) and has been shared with K12NN. The author’s concerns are undoubtedly shared by many but s/he prefers not to self-promote as well as protect her/his privacy. Accordingly, the author’s name is not included. –Ed. marguerite.lamotte@lausd.net | (213) 241-6382 mónica.garcia@lausd.net | (213) 241-6180 tamar.galatzan@lausd.net | […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Ed Tech, Los Angeles, School Boards, The Testing Industry Tagged With: inBloom, iPads, LAUSD

Apple Sells iPads to LAUSD — Something Does Not Compute

September 7, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

I’m writing this on my MacBook Pro, and I really appreciate that irony and privilege. But it doesn’t change what I’m about to say. When the Los Angeles Unified School District’s School Board decided at its mid-June 2013 meeting to purchase iPads for every child in the district, I was aghast. It wasn’t only the […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Ed Tech, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, State Education Law Tagged With: School Funding

LAUSD's iPad Deal: iPaid Too Much?

September 6, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

To the LAUSD Inspector General, the LAUSD Bond Oversight Committee, and LAUSD School Board, Scour the iPad project before $1 billion goes down the drain! LAUSD’s $1 billion project to buy iPads for students has only begun its roll-out. $30 million into the project, it already shows signs of missteps and even possible improprieties. Using 30-year […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: LAUSD

Michelle Rhee Comes to Los Angeles; The City Shrugs

September 5, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

UPDATED: A student in attendance at the “Town Hall” wasn’t buying what Rhee was selling either. Michelle Rhee’s StudentsFirst group is holding a “Teacher Town Hall” meeting in Los Angeles on September 5, 2013, as part of a multi-city tour. I can’t fathom why anyone would be excited. As a Californian (since 1990), as an […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Curriculum, Educators, Los Angeles, School Districts, State Education Law Tagged With: California, Michelle Rhee, Standardized test, StudentsFirst

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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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