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Why can’t the LA Times get early education right?

April 8, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

School Readiness Language Development Program (SRLDP)

In How to even the educational playing field for Latino kids The Los Angeles Times discusses the work of UC Berkeley’s Professor Bruce Fuller, but draw several wrong conclusions. They get it half right when they say “The discrepancy starts much earlier, and even high-quality preschool makes up only about a third of the deficit.” […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: early education, LAUSD, preschool, rdsathene, School Readiness Language Development Program, SRLDP

Help Pass H.R. 973 & Secure A Full Retirement for Teachers!

April 8, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Should affiliated groups and former allies of teachers be speaking up about full social security benefits for teachers? Yes they should, but many of these groups have been quiet so far. The teachers unions are currently working hard to pass H.R. 973, a bill that would remove penalties on teachers retiring in several states where […]

Filed Under: Educators Tagged With: HR 973

K12NN Podcast: ESEA Reauthorization With Parents Across America

April 8, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Check Out Politics Progressive Podcasts at Blog Talk Radio with MOMocrats on BlogTalkRadio The Parents Across America 2/23/15 position paper with highlights to desired changes in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is embedded below for your convenience. Follow along as I talk with Pamela Grundy about how to re-orient national education policy for the […]

Filed Under: Bilingual education, Charter Schools, Curriculum, DC, Federal Policy, NCLB

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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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