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Want the best turnout of candidates? Hold community, rather than corporate, LAUSD debate forums!

January 31, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Left to right: Eleanor Garcia, Annamarie Montañez, Isabel Vazquez, Abelardo Diaz, Michelle "HOPE" Walker, Robert D. Skeels, and Scott Folsom. Seven of the eight 2013 candidates for LAUSD District 2 at the CARECEN November 15, 2012 forum. Photo by Sean Abajian.

First published on solidaridad on January 31, 2015 “I have also observed and experienced how these organizations, in order to protect their non-profit status and marketability to liberal foundations, actively self-police against members’ deviation from their essentially reformist agendas, while continuing to appropriate the language and imagery of historical revolutionaries.”—Professor Dylan Rodríguez Left to right: […]

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Board of education, Education Politics, LAUSD, neoliberalism, Nonprofit Industrial Complex, NPIC, Privatization, rdsathene, School Board, United Way

Sen. Alexander, No Child Left Behind’s High Stakes Tests Narrow the Curriculum

January 28, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) is now chair of the education committee in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension committee, and has officially opened the door to reauthorization of No Child Left Behind (NCLB, also known as the ESEA, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act). He’s seeking emails and letters talking about testing and accountability […]

Filed Under: Curriculum, Educators, Federal Policy, NCLB, The Testing Industry, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: Elementary and Secondary Education Act, ESEA, Lamar Alexander, NCLB, No Child Left Behind Act

Leave At 3:00 PM? Hardly — Teachers Pay To Be Overworked

January 27, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Guest blogger Susan DuFresne is an experienced teacher in Washington state. (She is not pictured.) This is part of a series called Voices From the Classroom.   A teacher’s workload is impossible. Twenty-four hours is not enough. I worked a 15 1/2 hour day yesterday & the to-do list is still ridiculously long. After teaching […]

Filed Under: Educators, NCLB, Sea-Tac, State Education Law, The Testing Industry, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: High Stakes Standardized Tests, McCleary v Washington, Washington

“Value-Added” for Teacher Preparation Programs? Your Comments Needed NOW on Proposed Regulation Changes

January 27, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

UPDATED February 2, 2015:  We submitted the link to this post to the official regulations.gov site where it was recorded. At the time of sending, almost 3500 comments from teachers, faculty at GSEs (graduate schools of education), and others with an interest in the training of public school teachers had submitted comments. In our submission, […]

Filed Under: Educators, Federal Policy, Fixes, Research Tagged With: Arne Duncan, Department of Education, Title II, United States Department of Education, Value Added Methodologies, Value-added

LA Times Report on Teacher Evaluations Incorrect

January 25, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Heather Poland (A Teacher’s Perspective) is a teacher in California. This piece is part of a series called Voices From the Classroom. It’s reposted from A Teacher’s Perspective with permission. Recently, the LA Times reported that, “Major California school districts are failing to comply with a state law that requires them to evaluate teachers in […]

Filed Under: Educators, LAUSD, Los Angeles, NCLB, State Education Law, The Testing Industry, Too Good For the LA TImes, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: California, Common Core State Standards Testing, high stakes standardized testing, LAUSD, VAM

Los Angeles education politics roundup for late January 2015

January 24, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Stop corporate charter school greed, stop Ref Rodriguez!

A few items discussing school board and other races happening in Los Angeles… Statement on Gates and Broad Foundation funded United Way Greater Los Angeles running LAUSD forums Stop corporate charter school greed, stop Ref Rodriguez! Corporate education reform privatizer Tamar Galatzan’s greatest neoliberal hits at LAUSD A reader asks about Marqueece Harris-Dawson and Community […]

Filed Under: Elections, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: LAUSD, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, School Board

Join NPE’s letter writing campaign to Sen. Alexander and the HELP Committee

January 24, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Join NPE’s letter writing campaign to Sen. Alexander and the HELP Committee

Friends, I  wrote a letter for the Action Network letter campaign “Urge Senator Lamar Alexander and the members of  Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee to put an end to annual standardized testing”. Network for Public Education (NPE) is calling on Congress to support the adoption of Option 1 in Senator Lamar Alexander’s “Every […]

Filed Under: Federal Policy, The Testing Industry Tagged With: CCSS, corporate education agenda, high stakes standardized testing, NCLB, NPE, Pearson, Privatization, resistance, RTTT, struggle, The Network for Public Education

People-Powered Public Education News: K-12 News Network Turns Four!

January 23, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

K12NN fourth birthday

It’s January, 2015, and K-12 News Network has been doing ground-breaking, people-powered public education news covered from the classroom up for FOUR years now! Thank you, readers, bloggers, and activists, for being folks actively making a new kind of education news. Some highlights from our first four years: In August, 2010, when the LA Times […]

Filed Under: Ed Tech, Educators, Federal Policy, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School closures, School Districts, State Education Law, The Testing Industry, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: #educolor, citizen media, ed tech, iPads, ipads for schools

Fix Education Testing and Accountability to Reauthorize No Child Left Behind

January 22, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) is now chair of the education committee in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension committee, and has officially opened the door to reauthorization of No Child Left Behind (NCLB, also known as the ESEA, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act). He’s seeking emails and letters talking about testing and accountability […]

Filed Under: Educators, Federal Policy, Fixes, NCLB, Parents, The Testing Industry Tagged With: ESEA, High Stakes Standardized Tests, NCLB

Public Education Battles for Mexican American Studies Are A Free Speech and Intellectual Freedom Issue Too

January 9, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Meet writer and professor Tony Diaz and find out why Arizona tried, and will likely fail, to ban Mexican American Studies and other Ethnic Studies classes in public schools. Diaz launched the Librotraficante (book smuggler) movement that pokes and prods the narrow-minded government officials who would really like to banish Latinos and declare their culture […]

Filed Under: Curriculum, Educators, Ethnic Studies, Houston, School Districts, Students, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: ethnic studies, Librotaficante, Mexican American Studies, Tony Diaz

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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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