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SBAC/CAASPP or PARCC: Question the Tests

June 3, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Pamela Casey Nagler is a longtime Claremont resident, a former student of Claremont public schools and a high school teacher at nearby Montclair High School. She remembers taking one standardized test when she attended Claremont High School – the Ohio Achievement Test – that was essentially an aptitude test to identify an individual’s strengths and […]

Filed Under: Ed Tech, Educators, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Profiteering, Research, The Testing Industry, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: CAASPP, PARCC, SBAC

People-Powered Public Education News: K-12 News Network Turns Four!

January 23, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

K12NN fourth birthday

It’s January, 2015, and K-12 News Network has been doing ground-breaking, people-powered public education news covered from the classroom up for FOUR years now! Thank you, readers, bloggers, and activists, for being folks actively making a new kind of education news. Some highlights from our first four years: In August, 2010, when the LA Times […]

Filed Under: Ed Tech, Educators, Federal Policy, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School closures, School Districts, State Education Law, The Testing Industry, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: #educolor, citizen media, ed tech, iPads, ipads for schools

LAUSD: Haste Makes Ed Tech Waste

December 2, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

By Cynthia Liu, CEO/Founder of K12NN. [BREAKING: The FBI carted away 20 boxes of documents relating to the iPad purchase from LAUSD offices late Monday, December 1, 2014.] Two education technology disasters mark the former LAUSD Superintendent’s brief tenure: the iPad debacle, born from cozy relationships with vendors and dependent upon broadband infrastructure that, in […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Ed Tech, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, Too Good For the LA TImes Tagged With: Broad Superintendent Academy, John Deasy, Superintendent John Deasy

BREAKING: LAUSD Parents Seek Los Angeles Superior Court Civil Grand Jury Investigation/Audit Into iPads and MiSiS Debacles

October 21, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

BREAKING: this morning, LAUSD parents filed a citizen complaint to ask that the Los Angeles Superior Court’s Civil Grand Jury investigate/audit the iPad and MiSiS deals that were costly but seemed highly ineffective. They want an independent body outside of LAUSD to conduct its own investigation. The Civil Grand Jury consists of 23 residents of […]

Filed Under: Ed Tech, Fixes, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Civil Grand Jury Investigation, LAUSD

The Deasy Debacle: Six New Rules for a New Superintendent

October 18, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

By Roberta Eidman, MPH. She is a community member and resident of Los Angeles interested in a healthy public commons and excellent public schools for ALL children. The Deasy era was never really about Public Education. It was never really about the kids, or their parents, or the future of Los Angeles as a cultural […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Ed Tech, Educators, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: iPad, John Deasy, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, LAUSD Superintendent, MiSiS

ICYMI: Video Highlights From the Network For Public Education’s PUBLIC “Education Nation”

October 15, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

The Network for Public Education

MSNBC has a show that is practically a commercial for the privatization of public education called “Education Nation.” Fans of charter schools, “school choice,” and other trendy approaches to education that enrich ed tech companies are all invited. Voices of those who feel the public education system — for all its flaws — is worthwhile […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Chicago, Detroit, Ed Tech, Educators, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, School closures, The Testing Industry Tagged With: Carol Burris, Common Core, Diane Ravitch, High Stakes Standardized Tests, MSNBC Education Nation

Los Angeles Unified Must Refocus: Five Ways Bad Ed Tech Deals in LAUSD Hurt Kids Right Now

October 1, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Recently released investigative reports by Southern California radio station KPCC have increased public scrutiny of Superintendent John Deasy’s cozy relationships with Apple and Pearson executives in the period 2011 to 2013, before both corporations won the 2013 bid to supply Los Angeles Unified with iPads and software. This is the infamous “$1 billion iPad” deal […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Budgets, Ed Tech, Educators, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, The Testing Industry Tagged With: Deasy, iPads, LAUSD, MiSiS, Superintendent John Deasy

Why Didn’t LAUSD Perform A Tech Review Before iPad/MiSiS Purchase?

September 26, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

The LAUSD MiSiS cRiSiS is Deasy's Disaster.

Bad ed tech deals continue to plague LAUSD — currently starting its second month of meltdown, the MiSiS student tracking and class scheduling software mandated by a court-ordered consent decree is a ticking time bomb for high school seniors who need transcripts in order to apply to college and finish classes in order to graduate […]

Filed Under: Ed Tech, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Fresno Unified School District, iPads, John Deasy, LAUSD, Los Angeles Unified School District

K12NN Open Government Initiative: Public Records Requests of the LAUSD iPad Requests For Proposals (RFP)

August 25, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

This is what we at K12NN do: we prod traditional corporate-owned media to rise to a higher level of investigative journalism when it comes to putting the public good and the well-being of public education front and center. Last fall, when the iPad story was first reported in the major Los Angeles-area news outlets, the […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Ed Tech, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Apple, iPad, KPCC, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Pearson

iPad Watchdog Stuart Magruder’s Re-Appointment: Which Way Will LAUSD Go?

June 10, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

The question for many school districts around the country this spring was this: how are they supposed to give computer-based, end-of-year Common Core State Standards (CCSS) tests? For over a year in Los Angeles Unified, parents, students, teachers, and community members have wrestled with the details of Superintendent John Deasy’s 1:1 iPad program and its […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Budgets, Ed Tech, Los Angeles, School Boards, The Testing Industry Tagged With: Deasy, John Deasy, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, Superintendent John Deasy

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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 […]

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