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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

Six Education Policies A 2016 Presidential Candidate Must Embrace

July 18, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

  On the eve of passage of amendments to the Senate’s Every Child Achieves Act, the Rev. Dr. William Barber, a distinguished contemporary Civil Rights leader, released a powerful statement of support that gave qualified support for the law’s draft reauthorization and pointed to the work ahead. He said: But as we under-resource our public […]

Filed Under: Community Schools, Curriculum, Educators, Elections, ESEA, Ethnic Studies, Federal Policy, Fixes, Innovations, NCLB, Parents, Profiteering, School Boards, School Districts, Students, The Testing Industry, Why We Need Ethnic Studies Tagged With: 2016 Elections, ECAA, ESEA, No Child Left Behind, No Child Left Behind Act

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

Catholic Sainthood For Junipero Serra Will Erase Native Americans All Over Again

February 2, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

This guest post comes from Pamela Casey Nagler, who is a teacher in California. This piece is part of a series, Why We Need Ethnic Studies. This is why we need better history courses — more ethnic studies in our high schools.   video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player   The Pope has just announced that […]

Filed Under: Cross-Cultural Comparison, Curriculum, Educators, Ethnic Studies, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Francisco, Students, Voices From the Classroom, Why We Need Ethnic Studies Tagged With: California, Junípero Serra, Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, Pope

Sen. Alexander, No Child Left Behind’s High Stakes Tests Narrow the Curriculum

January 28, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) is now chair of the education committee in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension committee, and has officially opened the door to reauthorization of No Child Left Behind (NCLB, also known as the ESEA, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act). He’s seeking emails and letters talking about testing and accountability […]

Filed Under: Curriculum, Educators, Federal Policy, NCLB, The Testing Industry, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: Elementary and Secondary Education Act, ESEA, Lamar Alexander, NCLB, No Child Left Behind Act

Public Education Battles for Mexican American Studies Are A Free Speech and Intellectual Freedom Issue Too

January 9, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Meet writer and professor Tony Diaz and find out why Arizona tried, and will likely fail, to ban Mexican American Studies and other Ethnic Studies classes in public schools. Diaz launched the Librotraficante (book smuggler) movement that pokes and prods the narrow-minded government officials who would really like to banish Latinos and declare their culture […]

Filed Under: Curriculum, Educators, Ethnic Studies, Houston, School Districts, Students, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: ethnic studies, Librotaficante, Mexican American Studies, Tony Diaz

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

The Network for Public Education Endorses Historic Ethnic Studies Graduation Requirement for LAUSD

October 14, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

“Remember that consciousness is power” — Kochiyama Yuri The Network for Public Education just released the following in support of ethnicstudiesnow‘s historic resolution to make the successful completion of an A-G approved Ethnic Studies course a high school graduation requirement in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD): As the President and Executive Director of […]

Filed Under: Curriculum, Los Angeles, School Districts Tagged With: California, Education, education policy, Education Politics, ethnic studies, language rights, LAUSD, NPE, rdsathene, resistance, struggle, The Network for Public Education

California Teachers Should Re-Elect Tom Torlakson For State Superintendent of Instruction in 2014

October 1, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

      By Alice Mercer, a California teacher. Special to K12NN. California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson has been a real friend to public education in a lot of ways because he didn’t just stand up to Arne Duncan on the issue of teacher evaluation, he created a better alternative. Many teachers […]

Filed Under: Curriculum, Educators, Elections, State Education Law Tagged With: Alice Mercer, American Statistical Association, Larry Ferlazzo, Linda Darling Hammond, November 2014, SSPI, 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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