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Union Leaders Agree – Our Strength Is In Fighting for the Public Good

July 28, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

By Julie Carson and Matthew Kogan, Teachers, United Teachers Los Angeles (group affiliation added for identification purposes only; this is not an official communication of UTLA) The standing room only crowd at the AFT convention’s Social Movement Unionism vs. Corporation “Reform” panel discussion held earlier this month demonstrated that many union members are hungry to […]

Filed Under: Educators, Los Angeles Tagged With: AFT, AFT 2014, Chicago Teachers Union, Karen Lewis, LAUSD, Michael Mulgrew, Social Justice Unionism, Social Movement Unionism, United Teachers Los Angeles, UTLA

The case against Alex Johnson

July 25, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

Poverty pimp Alex Johnson puts profits before pupils

The original draft of this essay was written in mid-June, 2014. The figures cited in the piece are indicative of the Form-460 information available at that time. I will be writing another piece which discusses the currently fundraising figures soon. Given the despicable smear job the Johnson campaign has run against the distinguished Dr. McKenna, […]

Filed Under: Elections, Los Angeles, School Districts Tagged With: Election, LAUSD, neoliberalism, plutocrats, Privatization, School Board

Social Movement Unionism Comes to the Teachers Unions at Last

July 16, 2014 by

I am an activist and organizer who recently joined the fight against “education reform,” which is really code for the attempt by corporations, billionaires and hedge funds and the industry they have spawned, to privatize public education and break the teachers unions. I have been frustrated at the seeming lack of interest on the part […]

Filed Under: Educators, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St Paul, New York City, Philadelphia, School closures Tagged With: AFT, teachers unions, UFT, UTLA

Photo Gallery from AFT Panel: Social Movement Unionism vs. Corporate “Reform”

July 13, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

AFT Panel: Social Movement Unionism vs. Corporate "Reform"

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Activism, AFT, resistance, Social Justice Unionism, struggle, Union

#educolor Calling *IN* All Anti-Racist, Anti-Sexist BATs: Your Voices and Actions Are Needed

July 7, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

This opinion piece is by Cynthia Liu, founder of K-12 News Network.  UPDATE 7-9-14: the person whose ugly tweet was reproduced below has apologized for his behavior and BATs co-founders insisted he do so. In addition the National BATs released the following message on Facebook (responses also at the link) following this incident: “Official BAT […]

Filed Under: Educators, Students Tagged With: #educolor, NEA RA 2014

Day 1: NEA Rep Assembly GatorbonBC’s BAT Blog

July 3, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

K12NN has invited several teachers who are attending summer NEA and AFT meetings to blog about those events. GatorbonBC is a teacher from Florida who is attending the NEA Representative Assembly in Denver, CO. This post is re-posted with permission from the blog Continuing Change, where GatorbonBC blogs about public education.   At the foot […]

Filed Under: Educators Tagged With: NEA RA, NEA RA 2014

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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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