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Lawsuit Opens Door To Potential Student Data Privacy Breach: California Parents Opt Out Here By April 1, 2016

February 15, 2016 by K12NN Site Admin

By Jeanne Berrong Parents of California schoolchildren: If your child was or has been a student in California public schools since January, 2008, their personal records will be released to a private party as the result of a lawsuit filed by a non-profit requesting public records. That means their social security numbers, mental health records, […]

Filed Under: Call to Action, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Francisco, Student Data Privacy, Too Good For the LA TImes Tagged With: FERPA, SOPIPA, Student data privacy

“Golden” Granada Hills Charter High School: Scofflaws When It Comes to California Ed Code?

October 1, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

By Carl Petersen. “I am a former candidate for the District 3 seat on the LAUSD School Board, founder of Change The LAUSD and member of the Northridge East Neighborhood Council. Opinions are my own.”   “Per GHCHS Board Policy, all students must participate fully in California CAASPP and Granada Testing in their 9th, 10th […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, Sacramento, San Francisco, School Districts, State Education Law

Catholic Sainthood For Junipero Serra Will Erase Native Americans All Over Again

February 2, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

This guest post comes from Pamela Casey Nagler, who is a teacher in California. This piece is part of a series, Why We Need Ethnic Studies. This is why we need better history courses — more ethnic studies in our high schools.   video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player   The Pope has just announced that […]

Filed Under: Cross-Cultural Comparison, Curriculum, Educators, Ethnic Studies, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Francisco, Students, Voices From the Classroom, Why We Need Ethnic Studies Tagged With: California, Junípero Serra, Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, Pope

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

The Vergera v. California Trial: More Double Standards From the 1%

March 16, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

We know that two epicenters of the funding for profiteering from public schools are Silicon Valley and Wall Street. And in looking at some of the major players pushing privatization of public schools, such as the ones based in Northern California detailed in this Crooks and Liars report, I can see a pattern that emerges […]

Filed Under: Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Francisco, State Education Law Tagged With: Vergera v California

K12NN Action: Decline to Sign Rhee's Attack on Teacher Seniority (Ballot Initiative)

December 19, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

  Newsflash from the December 18, 2013 Sacramento Bee: A ballot measure submitted by a political consultant for education advocate Michelle Rhee seeks to remove seniority as a factor when California school districts lay off teachers, requiring that they instead base decisions on performance ratings. Performance, under the proposal, would be determined in part based […]

Filed Under: Educators, Elections, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Francisco, State Education Law, Uncategorized Tagged With: Decline to Sign, High Quality Teacher Act 2014, HQTA, Michelle Rhee

Local Control Funding Formula — A View From SoCal

August 7, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

By Deb McCurdy, special to K12NN and reposted with permission. Students throughout California are finally getting some relief.  A few weeks ago, the state legislature reached a compromise on the 2013-2014 budget, which also includes a plan for future K-12 public education funding, and Governor Brown has signed it. The compromise budget provides for about […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Francisco, State Education Law Tagged With: California, Education, Governor Brown, Local Control Funding Formula

Governor Brown, Add SB69’s Revisions To Your Local Control Funding Formula

June 6, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

UPDATE: as of 1:13 pm, PDT, Monday, June 10: Good news, keep signing! It’s a constantly changing picture, but so far the main points of agreement seem to be these (as of the past weekend’s negotiations): Put more money into the base grants (raise all districts equally) Supplemental grant percentages would be 20% of the […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Fixes, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Francisco, State Education Law Tagged With: California, California State Senate, Jerry Brown, Local Control Funding Formula

Comparisons of Propositions 30 and 38, Via EdSource & the California Budget Project

October 26, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

This one’s from EdSource, a very reliable non-profit education news outlet. EdSource: Proposition 30 | Proposition 38 Comparisons This one’s from the California Budget Project, also a very reliable non-profit state budget watchdog outlet that has excellent information on education. California Budget Project: How Do Propositions 30 & 38 Compare?

Filed Under: Budgets, Elections, Los Angeles, Orange County, Parents, Sacramento, San Francisco, State Education Law Tagged With: Proposition 30, Proposition 38

The November 2012 Save California Public Schools Toolkit

September 27, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Step 1: Get informed. We’re on the verge of either saving our public schools from an annual cycle of disinvestment caused by budget cuts ($20 billion in the past 5 years) — or setting off harmful triggers if the November 2012 ballot initiatives to fund K-12 (or K-14) don’t pass. Proposition 30 and Proposition 38 […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Elections, Fixes, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Francisco, School Districts, State Education Law Tagged With: Arts funding, CA budget, California, School Funding

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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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