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Parents’ Guide To Charter Schools: How Do They Work?

November 25, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

By Name Withheld for job-security reasons First, a note: Are charter schools public schools? I describe them as private schools run with public money. The charter sector will insist that they’re public schools when it suits them and insist that they’re not public schools when it suits them. The common term for non-charter public schools […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Charter Schools, School closures, School Districts, School Vouchers

Saving Money by Shortchanging a Special Education

November 22, 2015 by Carl J. Petersen

“For 13 years [we have] known what we should do for Special Education and we have ignored it as a district.” -Ramon C. Cortines, LAUSD Superintendent It cannot be denied that Special Education costs a lot of money. In fact, the Independent Financial Review Panel says that it “is one of the fastest growing parts […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Uncategorized Tagged With: Independent Financial Review Panel, LAUSD, Mainstreaming, Special Education

Saving Summer?

November 10, 2015 by Carl J. Petersen

“Your Voice Counts.” -LAUSD When a LAUSD bureaucrat says that the District will call parents before a phone survey begins so that they will know when to “wait for the phone call,” it becomes apparent how little touch the bureaucracy has with reality. The J. F. Kennedy High School Theatre was more empty than full […]

Filed Under: LAUSD Tagged With: LAUSD, Parental Engagement, School Calendar, Summer Vacation

Tax Spending Without Representation

November 1, 2015 by Carl J. Petersen

“Charter schools allow parents, teachers and the community to transform our public school system.” -California Charter School Association As Eli Broad prepares to implement his plan “to reach 50 percent charter market share” within the LAUSD, now is the time for Angelenos to begin asking what this privately controlled system would look like. While Broad […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Los Angeles, Profiteering, Uncategorized Tagged With: Charter School Governance, Eli Broad, Granada Hills Charter High School, Jose Cole-Gutierrez, LAUSD Charter School Division

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Federal Policy

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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