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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

March 14, 2014: Remarks at the Association of Children's Librarians Annual Institute

March 19, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Cynthia Liu is CEO/Founder of K-12 News Network. On March 14, 2014, I was invited to speak to the Association of Childen’s Librarians of Northern California at their annual Institute in the beautiful San Francisco Main Public Library. Here’s the substance of the talk I gave. In re-arranging my address to the ACL for publication […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Common Core, Educators, Innovations, Los Angeles, Orange County, Parents, Sacramento, San Francisco, School Districts, State Education Law, Students, The Testing Industry

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

Community Schools, An Untapped Resource: A March 18, 2013 Convening

March 26, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

By Deb McCurdy, Special to K12NN On March 18, 2013, public education advocates, administrators, school board members, school administrators, non-profit organizations and philanthropists convened at the California Endowment in downtown Los Angeles. The event followed from a discussion a group of First District CA PTA delegates had with State Senator Carol Liu’s staff on state […]

Filed Under: Educators, Fixes, Innovations, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School Districts, Uncategorized Tagged With: California, California Endowment, Carol Liu, Community school, Community Schools, Education, John Deasy, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District

February 25 & 26, 2013: The Annual California PTA Legislative Conference (Budget/School Funding)

March 8, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

The California PTA Legislative Conference is an excellent gathering orchestrated by the state PTA and usually happens every spring after everyone’s had a chance to digest the governor’s January budget announcement and State of the State address. (KQED has provided 7, 15, and full 30 minute versions of the State of the State here.) We […]

Filed Under: Innovations, Parents, School Boards, State Education Law Tagged With: CA budget, California, California Common Core, California Department of Finance, California state school funding, Common Core Standards, English Language Learner, Jerry Brown, Public Policy Institute of California

Public School Districts Fight Back Against Privatization With District-Based, All Public "Schools of Choice"

January 9, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

The myth is that charters “own” innovation. I don’t buy the myth. In the K12NN FAQ Wiki, I’ve gathered too many examples of 100% public schools that are truly public inside and out —  democratic governance mechanisms for the internal and operational affairs of the school and with outward public accountability to taxpayers in all […]

Filed Under: Curriculum, Innovations, School Districts Tagged With: Texas

Looping with my children :)

January 6, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

I wasn’t quite sure coming into this what looping would be like. I loved the idea of my wonderful knowledge seeking group that would be joining me (rare in inner city), but unsure of learning a whole new curriculum. I knew nothing about the grade I was going into but everything about my students. I […]

Filed Under: Educators, Innovations Tagged With: Florida, looping

Public School Supporters Meet With Governor Dean and Randi Weingarten at the DNC

September 8, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

While at the DNC, I was lucky enough to be invited to a small gathering of public education supporters with Governor Dean and Randi Weingarten, who heads the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). I’m a tremendous fan of Governor Dean — in fact, I was a Deaniac before there was a netroots. I still think […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Elections, Federal Policy, Innovations, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Parents, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: charter schools, Democratic Party, DFER, school choice

What Backers of the "Parent Trigger"/Parent Tricker Law Don’t Want You to Know: Real Democratic Involvement in Public Schools Works

September 4, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Around the country, REAL parent heroes are putting the lie to the version of the story told in the movie Won’t Back Down. The “parent trigger”, or “parent tricker” law is in the news again, this time with a glossy film starring popular actors Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal. The heart-string-tugging movie is called Won’t […]

Filed Under: Chicago, Educators, Federal Policy, Fixes, Innovations, Los Angeles, NCLB, Parents, School Districts, State Education Law Tagged With: magnet schools, NCLB

Dear Governor Brown, Please Sign AB250 For High Quality Education Into Law!

September 24, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

This is the high quality K-12 curriculum reform we’ve been waiting for that emphasizes creativity, collaboration, innovation, and critical thinking for 21st century learning. It’s what we need to keep California a leader in the worlds of art, science, technology and culture. Please join over 18 parent, educator, and community grassroots groups to urge Governor Brown to sign AB250 into law!

Filed Under: Curriculum, Fixes, Innovations, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Francisco, State Education Law Tagged With: AB250, California Common Core, Common Core Standards

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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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