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Six Education Policies A 2016 Presidential Candidate Must Embrace

July 18, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

  On the eve of passage of amendments to the Senate’s Every Child Achieves Act, the Rev. Dr. William Barber, a distinguished contemporary Civil Rights leader, released a powerful statement of support that gave qualified support for the law’s draft reauthorization and pointed to the work ahead. He said: But as we under-resource our public […]

Filed Under: Community Schools, Curriculum, Educators, Elections, ESEA, Ethnic Studies, Federal Policy, Fixes, Innovations, NCLB, Parents, Profiteering, School Boards, School Districts, Students, The Testing Industry, Why We Need Ethnic Studies Tagged With: 2016 Elections, ECAA, ESEA, No Child Left Behind, No Child Left Behind Act

Workshop: let the community drive LCFF/LCAP for Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve

July 16, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD)

Instituto de Padres / Parent Institute Saturday, July 18, 2015 12:00 to 4:00PM 3303 Wilshire Blvd., 8th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90010 [The Education Trust-West] and many of the cited sources in the [20]14-15 ETW/LAUSD Case Study are noted School [R]eformers aligned with Secretary Duncan, the Broad/Gates/Waltons — and the then superintendent John Deasy — […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Activism, LAUSD, LCAP, LCFF, NPIC, Parent Activism, rdsathene, SLASD, struggle

Community Schools At The Margins Of Current ESEA Reauthorization Debates: Center Them In Bernie Sanders’ Presidential Education Platform

July 13, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Right this very moment in the U.S. Senate, Senators are debating amendments being offered to the Senate-side bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA, the current version commonly referred to as No Child Left Behind). Given that we have a sitting Senator (Bernie Sanders, I-VT) involved in the process and a past […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Charter Schools, ESEA, Federal Policy, Fixes, Magnet schools

CALL TO ACTION: Vote YES on Senate Amendment 2100 and Put Community Schools at the Center of ESEA Reauthorization

July 13, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

From our friends at Coalition for Community Schools: This week, as early as tomorrow, the Senate will vote on the amendment being offered by Sen. Brown (D-OH) (Senate Amendment 2100) to establish a community schools grant program, and we need your help to get this passed. This will be a tougher vote to pass as […]

Filed Under: Call to Action, Community Schools, Elections, ESEA, Federal Policy

Quick Recap of ESEA Reauthorization (The Senate’s Every Child Achieves Act)

July 13, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

A QUICK RECAP The Senate bill consists of the following major provisions: The Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 TITLE I* Lets states develop accountability systems — i.e., tests (rejection of Common Core) Maintains important information for parents, teachers, and communities (“federally required two tests in reading and math per child per year in grades […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Elementary and Secondary Education Act, ESEA, Every Child Achieves Act

Re-Hire Andrew Nguyen and Restore Transparency to AUSD!

July 11, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

    Andrew Nguyen, a dedicated first year teacher, returned to his alma mater and took an embattled San Gabriel High School debate program to a state championship. Along the way, he motivated and inspired many students.  At the end of the year, he was dismissed without cause by the principal, Jim Schofield. This happened […]

Filed Under: Educators, Free Speech, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts

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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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