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LAUSD School Board Member-Elect Ref Rodriguez’s Financial Disclosures (And Possible Conflicts of Interest)

June 10, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

The voters of Los Angeles Unified School District 5 have made a big mistake in electing Ref Rodriguez to the school board this past May. Questions remain about his financial ties to various organizations he holds leadership positions in that would represent a conflict of interest if, as a LAUSD school board member, he were […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Elections, featured, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Profiteering, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: California Charter Schools Association, CCSA, Los Angeles Unified School District

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

Los Angeles Unified School Board Candidate Elections: Keep It Clean & Ethical With These Guidelines

May 12, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Tamar Galatzan and the discredited John Deasy

Understanding Equity is a community member and resident of Los Angeles Unified School District who is part of K12NN’s watchdog network. Events occurring during this 2015 school board race prompted the following resolution which LAUSD’s current school board should adopt to raise the level of debate and improve the quality of candidates. Whereas the LAUSD […]

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, Profiteering, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Galatzan, Ref Rodriguez, Rodriguez

PROFITS! Why Ref Rodriguez and his CCSA covet the LAUSD Board Seat

April 3, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

PROFITS! Why Ref Rodriguez and his CCSA covet the LAUSD Board Seat

“The education industry represents, in our opinion, the final frontier of a number of sectors once under public control… represents the largest market opportunity… the K-12 market is the Big Enchilada.” — Montgomery Securities prospectus quoted in Jonathan Kozol’s The Big Enchilada Most of the time the charter school industry’s corporate leadership is able to […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Profiteering, School Boards Tagged With: ableism, Bennett Kayser, Board of education, California Charter Schools Association, CCSA, discrimination, LAUSD, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, Ref Rodriguez, School Board, Students with Disabilities

A Third of Lousiana’s Voucher Schools Don’t Work, But Still Receive Money

February 5, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

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Filed Under: Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Profiteering, School Vouchers, State Education Law

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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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