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The Face of CTC & The Lack of Transparency By Those in Power #SaveFairfax

December 9, 2019 by Tracy Abbott Cook

I met Florencia, Jose’s mother, a few days earlier. Florencia and another mom had just left a meeting where they were told by district that CTC was being moved to accommodate WHFA. They were a combination of shock and sadness. They both did not want the school moved. The one mom whose daughter attends CTC said, “The Fairfax area is safe, I feel good having her here.” Florencia nodded in agreement. When I asked them if a move would be hard on their kids they said, “Yes.”

Filed Under: featured, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School Districts, Special ed Tagged With: #sped, Co-Locations, LAUSD

Candidate Red Flags: Democracy Lies In Your Vote in the Special Election, March 5th, 2019

March 4, 2019 by Dr. Rocio Rivas

Jackie Goldberg is the only clear choice to stop the plan between Eli Broad and the public officials he has purchased from making sure LAUSD fails and is broken apart.

Filed Under: Call to Action, Charter Schools, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Allison Bajracharya, Eli Broad, Heather Repenning, Jackie Goldberg, Jose Huizar, LAUSD, Ref Rodriguez, School board elections

Public Support For UTLA Demands Is A Rejection of Beutner Et Al’s Top Down, Discredited, and Out of Touch Profiteering

January 18, 2019 by cynthia

In Superintendent Austin Beutner’s Los Angeles Unified, it’s as if the 2018 elections never happened, or that Donald Trump’s appointment of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education had never turned a glaring klieg light on the avarice of “school choice” Democrats under Obama who suddenly found themselves aligned with voucher-loving, charter school-pushing megadonors to the […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Austin Beutner, LAUSD, Strike, teachers strike, UTLA

There Shouldn’t Be An LAUSD Strike (Read On, It’s Not What You Think)

January 13, 2019 by Brad

Op-Ed: THERE SHOULD BE NO STRIKE By Richard Wagoner Leaders and Board members of Los Angeles Unified School District would like the public to believe that the looming teachers strike is all about salary. Indeed, it could easily be: teachers have not received a raise in three years, the request by the Union (and the […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, Too Good For the LA TImes, Unionism

Mayberry Elementary Parents Dissatisfied With Principal’s Police Summons For Kindergartner’s Behavior

December 3, 2018 by cheryl ortega

By Cheryl Ortega On Friday, Nov 29 at 6:00 PM about 200 parents and neighborhood council members attended a meeting at Mayberry Elementary School in Silver Lake/Echo Park that had been requested by petition to Roberto Martinez, LAUSD Local Superintendent, through 40 school parents called Mayberry Amigos. The parents asserted that over some months there […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, School discipline, School Districts, School to prison pipeline

Under Marshall Tuck Jordan HS went five years with under 20% of students scoring proficient for CSU

October 20, 2018 by Robert D Skeels

Under business banker Marshall Tuck Jordan High School Partnership Academy for the Arts went five years without achieving even twenty percent of students scoring proficient on either the mathematics or the English portion of the California State University (CSU) entrance exams. Five years! Jordan High School Partnership Academy for the Arts CSU results: the years […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Los Angeles, School Districts Tagged With: California State Superintendent of Instruction, CSU, Eli Broad, Marshall Tuck, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tony Thurmond

“Creative” Charter School Finance: Orange County School of Arts…In Duarte (San Gabriel Valley)?

May 11, 2017 by K12NN Site Admin

By Elena de la Cuevas UPDATED 5-13-17 TO ADD California Department of Education denial of Duarte Unified’s Waiver #35-12-2016 (scroll to bottom of the post to view pdf file) The expansion of the Orange County School of the Arts (OSCA) to a sister site in the San Gabriel Valley has led to an complicated mix […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Educators, Los Angeles, Orange County, Profiteering, School Boards, School Districts

A Year of Observation on PLAS and Marshall Tuck

May 3, 2017 by K12NN Site Admin

by Cheryl Ortega UTLA Director of Bilingual Education   I became acquainted with Mr. Marshall Tuck in 2008, the first year of the rollout out of PLAS.  As Director of Bilingual Education for UTLA, I had received a call from some teachers at Ritter Elementary School in Watts concerned that their Dual Language Program would […]

Filed Under: Bilingual education, Curriculum, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School Districts, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: PLAS

Above the Law?

April 18, 2017 by K12NN Site Admin

By Carl Petersen “The LAUSD Board will be voting on whether they support a package of anti-charter laws that would threaten our schools’ funding, flexibility to implement the programs best for our students, and our ability to continue serving our families.” -Granada Hills Charter High School Real estate records show that on March 17, 2005, […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Profiteering, School Boards, School Districts, State Education Law

Three-Part Series: Fact-Checking LAUSD School Board District 4 “Facts,” Part III

February 27, 2017 by K12NN Site Admin

by Miriam Efrat. Read Part I here, read Part II here. Part Three:  Dumping the Blame Game and setting some records straight No one likes to have their parenting choices judged by strangers.  Engaged parents try to make choices that give their child the best possible opportunity in life.  Ultimately, the charter vs. public school […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, Too Good For the LA TImes Tagged With: Steve Zimmer

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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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