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Melendez Choice By Mayor Garcetti Only Deepens Questions Surrounding His Education Agenda

August 21, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

UPDATED, August 23, 2013: The OC Register reports that Melendez did not in fact file for retirement upon leaving Santa Ana Unified School District. This is despite her own blog post on her retirement, which cites wanting to spend more time with her aged parents as a reason for her early departure. Why the conflicting […]

Filed Under: Federal Policy, Los Angeles, NCLB, School Districts Tagged With: California, Eli Broad, Eric Garcetti, Garcetti, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Santa Ana Unified School District

February 25 & 26, 2013: The Annual California PTA Legislative Conference (Teacher Evaluations)

March 9, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

There are so many reasons why California is poised to regain her leadership among states in public education. Most of them stem from the fact that policy-wise, we haven’t completely knuckled under to the damaging policies put forth by the Obama administration. We’ve been evasive on bending to the conditions required for a Race to […]

Filed Under: Curriculum, NCLB, State Education Law Tagged With: Common Core Standards, Standardized test

No Teachers With Guns, No Police In Schools

January 11, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

On December 30, 2012, President Obama said he doubted arming school police with guns will prevent future school shootings, but then January 11, 2013’s EdWeek hints that he may yield to local law enforcement officers and communities if it has “bipartisan” support. While President Barack Obama said recently that he would be skeptical that more […]

Filed Under: Federal Policy, NCLB Tagged With: gun safety

Miss the #KidsNotCuts Twitter Party? Here's the Recap

November 16, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

In case you missed the #kidsnotcuts Twitter party with our expert Lily Eskelsen (@NEAToday) as the featured guest, I’ve collected some of the tweet highlights. Good morning, all! Let’s get #kidsnotcuts Twitter Party started! Thanks for joining us Lily. Use @neatoday 2 any Qs u have re fed school $ — K-12 News Network (@K12NN) […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Educators, Federal Policy, NCLB, Parents Tagged With: Head Start, IDEA, special ed, Title I

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

End Teach to the Test: Bad for Students and Their Teachers — the Latest Condemnation from the American Federation of Teachers

July 28, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Is there a light at the end of the teach-to-the-test tunnel? A quirky pineapple that grabbed news headlines in the spring of 2012 may have marked a turning point in how much stock is given to a standardized test’s ability to accurately measure what children know. First, flickering sparks of discontent flashed up from parents […]

Filed Under: Educators, Federal Policy, NCLB, Parents, The Testing Industry

Fact Check: FAIL — Romney's Claim That the Federal Government Doesn't Pay for Teachers

June 15, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Regarding presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s gaffe: of course state and local governments pay for teachers. No one disputes that. But the federal government does also pay for teachers, whether it’s the local or state education agency that makes that decision, or if it’s indirectly through federally-funded state training and credentialing programs. The Washington Post’s Josh […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Elections, Federal Policy, NCLB Tagged With: Romney

Romney's Education Policies: Eliminate Public Education As We Know It With "Voucherlike" Plan

June 13, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Mitt Romney’s latest statements about his vision for America’s public schools can be summed up by his declaration that it’d be best to let families “vote with their feet” and have federal dollars follow children to private/religious, public, charter, or online schools. Reckless, foolish, clueless, or all of the above? Perhaps if someone actually knowledgeable […]

Filed Under: Elections, NCLB Tagged With: Department of Education, Romney

Florida's Testing Debacle: Just Tweak the Cut Scores (Or, How to Lie With Statistics)

June 12, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

“Equipercentile equating” is fancy-talk for “don’t like the percentages of failing students? Lower the passing score.” The New York Times recently covered the flap, in which a proficiency grade of 4 on written tests yielded “too many” failures but a grade of 3 magically gave the same results as last year: 81% of students passed. […]

Filed Under: NCLB, Parents, School Districts, The Testing Industry

Gutting the Arts: Here's How NCLB Undermines Schools and How a Vigilant and Caring Community Fought to Save a Beloved Program

January 18, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

NCLB’s narrowed curriculum almost cost our students wonderful opportunities. I refused to allow this school to ditch a fantastic program because they would rather hire a teacher who might have less experience and be able to come in for less money than to hire one to carry on this incredibly valuable art program. So did my daughter. We spoke up. You can too.

Filed Under: Curriculum, NCLB, School Districts Tagged With: Arts funding, Los Angeles, NCLB

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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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