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Thank you John Oliver for exposing how charter schools steal from children

August 26, 2016 by Robert D Skeels

Say a Big Thank You to John Oliver!

“Fraud is a feature of deregulation, not a bug. When no one is looking, some people steal. Not everyone steals, but many do. That is why Ohio, Florida, Michigan, and California are scamming taxpayers.” — Professor Diane Ravitch The vile poverty pimps and privatization pushers of the lucrative charter school industry were infuriated when John […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: charter schools, Education, John Oliver, neoliberalism, NPE, Privatization, rdsathene, The Network for Public Education

Carl Petersen LAUSD District 2 School Board Candidate: Questionnaire Response

August 26, 2016 by K12NN Site Admin

Carl Petersen, LAUSD School Board District 2 Candidate (Los Angeles, CA) Why I’m running “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 […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, Special ed Tagged With: Change the LAUSD, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board

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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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