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Archives for May 2017

The Politics of Retribution

May 15, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

“A plan for ensuring best and fair practices for charter operators, including results that indicate positive impacts on the achievement gap, inclusion of all students, fair labor practices, and parent engagement practices.” -Steve Zimmer, 11/13/12 Betsy Devos, Eli Broad, and Michael Bloomberg have spent millions of dollars pushing to privatize our public schools with disastrous […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: California Charter School Association, CCSA, Charter Accountability, Nick Melvoin, Steve Zimmer

“Creative” Charter School Finance: Orange County School of Arts…In Duarte (San Gabriel Valley)?

May 11, 2017 by K12NN Site Admin

By Elena de la Cuevas UPDATED 5-13-17 TO ADD California Department of Education denial of Duarte Unified’s Waiver #35-12-2016 (scroll to bottom of the post to view pdf file) The expansion of the Orange County School of the Arts (OSCA) to a sister site in the San Gabriel Valley has led to an complicated mix […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Educators, Los Angeles, Orange County, Profiteering, School Boards, School Districts

You Can’t Keep a Bad Charter Down

May 10, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

“No question about @MagnoliaSchools academic superiority – questioning your reading skills.” -Alex Johnson, VP LA County Board of Education “Specifically, the CAASPP results in ELA and Math indicate that in both 2014-15 and 2015-16, 0% of the school’s English Learner (EL) population met or exceeded proficiency.” – LA County Office of Education Staff As the […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alex Johnson, California Charter School Association, CCSA, LAUSD, Magnolia, Magnolia Charter Schools, Nick Melvoin, SB-808, Steve Zimmer

Steve Zimmer: A Last Stand Between Public Education and the Privatizers

May 8, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

As a special education and parent advocate who has run twice in LAUSD elections under the rallying cry of “Change The LAUSD”, my first inclination is to recommend against a vote for the incumbent in the District 4 Board race. However, as the election of Trump has shown, voting with a “throw the bums out” […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: iPad, John Deasy, LAUSD, MiSiS, Nick Melvoin, Steve Zimmer

Parents to Billionaires: “Out of LA School Board Race!”

May 4, 2017 by marcy winograd

Parents, teachers, and students rallied outside Grand View Elementary School in Mar Vista on Thursday to demand LA School Board Candidate Nick Melvoin follow his opponent Steve Zimmer’s lead. Zimmer, the President of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board, does not take any money from billionaire charter school proponents seeking to influence the school board race […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Bay City Beacon Gets San Francisco USD School Assignment Wrong

May 4, 2017 by K12NN Site Admin

reposted with permission from Caroline Grannan A new online startup here in San Francisco is spreading misinformation about how our district’s school assignment works. So I’m posting a myths-vs.-facts commentary to help combat the misinformation. Feel free to share this if you like. I’m not defending the current system, because it’s stressful and problematic, but […]

Filed Under: Attendance Boundary Gerrymandering, Parents, San Francisco, School assignment Tagged With: School assignment

A Year of Observation on PLAS and Marshall Tuck

May 3, 2017 by K12NN Site Admin

by Cheryl Ortega UTLA Director of Bilingual Education   I became acquainted with Mr. Marshall Tuck in 2008, the first year of the rollout out of PLAS.  As Director of Bilingual Education for UTLA, I had received a call from some teachers at Ritter Elementary School in Watts concerned that their Dual Language Program would […]

Filed Under: Bilingual education, Curriculum, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School Districts, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: PLAS

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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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