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Trading Student Safety for Independence?

March 24, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

At the Los Angeles Unified School District, our goals are…School safety” -LAUSD As a father of two daughters who require special education services, I know from personal experience that the LAUSD has a less than stellar track record of working with parents to meet the needs of our students. A parent should not have to […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD Tagged With: California Charter Schools Association, LASUD, The Accelerated Schools

K12NN Bilingual Chinese/English Education Survey

March 22, 2016 by K12NN Site Admin

In 2014, Senate Constitutional Amendment 5 (SCA5) stirred up unexpected outcry from some Chinese American communities in California. Here’s a refresher on the issues. Given this rise of many whose voices hadn’t been heard before, we wanted to take the pulse of Chinese Americans on a range public education issues, including thoughts on SCA5. Please […]

Filed Under: Survey Tagged With: AAPI, Chinese Americans

Monica Garcia’s Attack on Special Education

March 10, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

When we say $1.4 billion for special ed and we only have $700 million from the federal government and the other $700 million are coming from every child in this district, I’m not about defunding special ed. I just know that we have a serious issue to how can we serve our own kids?” -Monica […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Inclusion, LAUSD, LCAP, Mainstreaming, Mónica García, Special Education, Special Education Centers

Judge, Jury, Executioner: The Charter School Version of Accountability

March 8, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

No further action is being taken at this time.” -Brian Bauer, Granada Hills Charter High School (GHCHS) It is the expectation of the CSD that GHCHS will provide notice to all affected parents of students in the 2014-2015 graduating class regarding options for reimbursement or other remedy.” -LAUSD Charter School Division Reasonable efforts to fully […]

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Planting a Flag in LAUSD’s District 2

March 2, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

To the Parents of District 2: When was the last time you felt that you had a voice in how the LAUSD is run? None of the seven Board members currently has  a student enrolled in the District and cannot empathize with parents fighting to get the best education possible for their children. Those of […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Carl Petersen, DIstrict 2, LAUSD, Los Angeles Unified School District, School board elections

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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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