• Athletics
  • Big Ed
  • Ed Tech
  • Educators
  • Elections
  • Federal Policy
  • Parents
  • Students
  • The Testing Industry

K-12 News Network's The Wire

K-12 News Network: People-Powered Public Education News

  • Budgets
  • Charter Schools
  • Federal Policy
  • School Districts
  • State Education Law
  • School Boards
You are here: Home / 2018 / Archives for January 2018

Archives for January 2018

Tone Deaf: Granada Misses the Point in Promoting its iGranada Program

January 31, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

choice noun  \ ˈchȯis \ 2 : power of choosing” – Merriam-Webster More than 19 months have passed since the LAUSD issued a Notice To Cure to Granada Hills Charter High School, demanding that they abide by their charter and give “first preference for enrollment…to students residing in the former attendance area.” As lawyers wallow […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Blended Learning, GHCHS, Granada, Granada Hills Charter High School, iGranada, Independent Study

LAUSD Board Set to Consider “Holding GHCHS Accountable to Their Charter” Resolution

January 28, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

It’s hard to light a candle, easy to curse the dark instead” – Nightwish In order to prevent charter schools from discouraging parents from enrolling children with special education needs, the Office of the Independent Monitor required that the District prohibit them from asking for any special education paperwork prior to enrollment. As originally pointed […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: GHCHS, Granada Hills Charter High School, Holding GHCHS Accountable to Their Charter, Independent Monitor, LAUSD, Los Angeles Unified School District, Special Education

Whack-A-Mole: The Los Angeles Approach to Charter School Oversight

January 15, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

Our oversight is “proactive and responsive” – José Cole-Gutiérrez, LAUSD Charter School Division Last June, I informed the LAUSD School Board that a charter school under their jurisdiction was violating the privacy of their students by publishing “Parent Volunteer Hours” reports on their website that included student names. The charter’s Chief Development Officer defended the […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Alliance, alliance college ready public [sic] schools, Better 4 You Fundraising, El Camino Real Charter High School, GHCHS, Granada Hills Charter High School, Jose Cole-Gutierrez, LAUSD, LAUSD Charter School Division, LAUSD CSD, LAUSD School Board, NAACP, NAACP Charter School Moratorium, Partnership to Uplift Communities, Partnerships for Developing Futures, PUC, Ref Rodriguez

LAUSD Stakeholders Are Not Reading From An Open Book

January 8, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

Access to information concerning the conduct of the people’s business is a fundamental and necessary right of every person in this state” – California Government Code When LAUSD Superintendent Michelle King first disappeared from the halls of the Beaudry Building “some insiders said she injured herself in an accident while on vacation with her family.” […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, vet the Supe Tagged With: California Public Records Act, John Deasy, Michelle King, Open Government, Ref Rodriguez

If Money Continues to Talk, We’re Screwed

January 4, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

In the congressional races in 2008, the candidate who had more money won more than 93% of the time. Our representatives don’t serve us; they serve the people who pay them — their corporate funders.” – Cenk Uygur The Republicans passed a tax bill despite the opposition of 55% of Americans. Now in an ass-backward […]

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Campaign finance, LAUSD School Board Elections, Ref Rodriguez, Trump Tax Law

Sign up for our newsletter

* indicates required
Email Format

Buy a hybrid Facebook+ website today!

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 […]

More Posts from this Category

K12NN on Blog Talk Radio

Online Politics Progressive Radio at Blog Talk Radio with MOMocrats on BlogTalkRadio

Categories

January 2018
S M T W T F S
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031  
« Dec   Feb »

Copyright © 2022 · The Wire Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in