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BREAKING: American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles, Resubmits Stuart Magruder Appointment to LAUSD Bond Oversight Committee

May 23, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

This press release was issued by the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles chapter just now. It calls for the re-appointment of Stuart Magruder to a second term on the Bond Oversight Committee that has been providing professional feedback on Los Angeles Unified use of bond funds for school facilities. AIA-LA Statement, LAUSD Citizens Oversight […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Ed Tech, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, State Education Law Tagged With: iPads, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, School Funding

Actual SBAC Testing Conditions (California)

May 3, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

K12NN will be posting experiences teachers have as they prepare their students for the SBAC or PARCC Common Core State Standards tests or actually administer them as testing season rolls out across the country. The SBAC and PARCC tests are to be administered by computer and they function as the end-of-year summative assessment for students. […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Ed Tech, The Testing Industry Tagged With: California, SBAC

SBAC Field Tests: An Experiment With Chromebooks

April 17, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

K12NN will be posting experiences teachers have as they prepare their students for the SBAC or PARCC Common Core State Standards tests or actually administer them as testing season rolls out across the country. The SBAC and PARCC tests are to be administered by computer and they function as the end-of-year summative assessment for students. […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Ed Tech, Educators, The Testing Industry Tagged With: SBAC

Real Technological Literacy for Public School Kids Instead of iPads for Tests or Code.org

December 9, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

By Cynthia Liu, K12 News Network Cynthia Liu is CEO/Founder of K12NewsNetwork.com, an education news and civic engagement platform for students, parents, and educators based in Los Angeles. In sixth through eighth grade classrooms in Pasadena Unified School District, elective Robotics classes hum with activity as teams of excited kids use laptops to build robots […]

Filed Under: Ed Tech, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: CCSS tests, Common Core State Standards Testing, iPads, John Deasy, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, Superintendent Deasy

LAUSD iPads and the Will of the Voters: Just the Facts, Please

November 13, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

Commentary by Public Policy Educator, Ellen Lubic, Director, Joining Forces for Education Today, Diane Ravitch posted on her website an article on the LA Times editorial which once again lambasted the Board of Education for micro managing the ‘poor beleaguered’ Superintendent of LAUSD, John Deasy. The title of Diane’s writing is Putting Bureaucrats First.  Evidently the LA […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Common Core, Curriculum, Ed Tech, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Deasy, iPads, John Deasy, Parent Revolution

Slicing Up LAUSD's "Apple" iPad Pie

October 26, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

  Guest post by Understanding Equity, a Los Angeles resident and teacher. Even Costco most likely could provide a break down of the cost of every ingredient needed to make one  of their famous apple pies.  But, when it comes to LAUSD’s Apple iPad purchase, no one seems or admits to have any idea how […]

Filed Under: Ed Tech, Educators, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: 1-to-1 computing, Deasy, iPads, John Deasy, LAUSD, San Diego Unified School District

Let's Have A One-to-One Chat

October 22, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

Guest post by Roberta Eidman, MPH, a Los Angeles community member. On October 29th, the LAUSD School Board will review Superintendent John Deasy’s controversial One-to-One i-Pad initiative.  Parents, teacher and press have criticized the project for its $1B price tag, use of bond funding, security glitches and absence of instructional planning.  Still, Deasy is determined […]

Filed Under: Ed Tech, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, The Testing Industry Tagged With: Amplify, Apple, Deasy, iPads, John Deasy, LAUSD, Rupert Murdoch

LAUSD: Deasy's iPads for All, At What Cost?

October 20, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

Warning….coming soon to a school district near you:  iPads for all – paid for by voter approved construction bonds!!!! Yes, it’s true and it’s happening right now in Los Angeles.    Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy decided that all students should be given their own iPad. No matter that in January, 2012,  he […]

Filed Under: Ed Tech, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, The Testing Industry Tagged With: Computers in the classroom, iPads, John Deasy

Might Makes Right When Viewing LAUSD and California Nepotism…..or Does It?

October 9, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

Guest post by Ellen Lubic, educator and angry taxpayer. She is Director of Joining Forces for Education, a new non-profit group based in Los Angeles. Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times printed two stories that affect public school education, and those who ‘dabble’ in it.  One was by journalist Howard Blume on the Billion Dollar iPad scandal at LAUSD, […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Ed Tech, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Eli Broad, iPads

iPads in the Classroom: How Did Lewisville Independent School District Get It So Right and Los Angeles Unified Get It So Wrong?

October 8, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

Guest post by Los Angeles resident and edublogger Understanding Equity. Contrast between LAUSD and Lewisville ISD, Lewisville, TX: One to One Technology Plan as featured in Ed Week Recently, issues surrounding the rollout of iPads to students in LAUSD have lead to media reports of breaches in security, missing iPads and indecisiveness as to the […]

Filed Under: Ed Tech, Innovations, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: CCSS, Common Core State Standards Testing, iPads, LAUSD

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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

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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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