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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

K12NN Podcast: ESEA Reauthorization With Parents Across America

April 8, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Check Out Politics Progressive Podcasts at Blog Talk Radio with MOMocrats on BlogTalkRadio The Parents Across America 2/23/15 position paper with highlights to desired changes in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is embedded below for your convenience. Follow along as I talk with Pamela Grundy about how to re-orient national education policy for the […]

Filed Under: Bilingual education, Charter Schools, Curriculum, DC, Federal Policy, NCLB

Why I Support An Ethnic Studies High School Graduation Requirement in LAUSD and SFUSD…And Beyond

December 1, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Cynthia Liu, PhD, is founder and CEO of K-12 News Network. Once upon a time there was a girl who grew up in a remote small town in upstate New York. There were five Asian American families in her town; hers was one. At that time, she knew nothing about transcontinental railroad workers from China, […]

Filed Under: Bilingual education, Curriculum, Dual language immersion, Educators, LAUSD, Los Angeles, San Francisco, School Boards Tagged With: ethnic studies

Voices From the Classroom: “Tell me when we can begin the healing so we can begin the learning.”

November 8, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD)

Jose del Barrio is a teacher in a Los Angeles Unified high school. Had a student in Saturday detention today. As he worked doing his community service we had a long heart to heart. His mother left him and his older brother and yonder sister when he was 7 years old in El Salvador to […]

Filed Under: Bilingual education, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Districts, Students, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: Jose del Barrio

Marshall Tuck Betrays Latino and African American Parents

October 21, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

By Cheryl Ortega, Director of Bilingual Education, UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles). Cheryl Ortega taught for 38 years in kindergarten and primary education bilingual programs in LAUSD.  She currently serves on the Board of Directors of UTLA as Director of Bilingual Education. She worked with Marshall Tuck and PLAS for a year at the request of parents […]

Filed Under: Bilingual education, Dual language immersion, Educators, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Districts Tagged With: Eli Broad, LAUSD, Los Angeles Unified School District, Marshall Tuck, The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, Tom Torlakson

UTLA Bilingual Education Committee PSA: LAU V. NICHOLS

August 24, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

40th Anniversary of the Supreme Court Decision on Rights of Linguistic Minorities

40th Anniversary of the Supreme Court Decision on Rights of Linguistic Minorities In 1974, the attorneys for Kenny Lau and 1800 Chinese speaking students sued the San Francisco School District on the grounds that these students were not receiving equal access to an education by virtue of their inability to comprehend English. The unanimous decision […]

Filed Under: Bilingual education, Curriculum, Dual language immersion, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Districts, State Education Law, Why We Need Ethnic Studies Tagged With: Bilingual Education, civil rights, dual language immersion, Education, education policy, Education Politics, ELL, English Language Learners, rdsathene

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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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