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Why the Los Angeles Times Missed the Biggest Education News this Week

September 24, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

By Karen Wolfe. She is an LAUSD parent activist and supporter of public schools with children who currently attend district schools. According to the Los Angeles Times, there was not much to report: “Protestors Add a Little Rain to Otherwise Sunny Broad Museum Opening Day.” Not “Education Activists Rain on Eli Broad’s Parade” or even […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Charter Schools, Educators, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, Profiteering, School Districts, Students, Too Good For the LA TImes Tagged With: Eli Broad

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

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

Public Education Battles for Mexican American Studies Are A Free Speech and Intellectual Freedom Issue Too

January 9, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Meet writer and professor Tony Diaz and find out why Arizona tried, and will likely fail, to ban Mexican American Studies and other Ethnic Studies classes in public schools. Diaz launched the Librotraficante (book smuggler) movement that pokes and prods the narrow-minded government officials who would really like to banish Latinos and declare their culture […]

Filed Under: Curriculum, Educators, Ethnic Studies, Houston, School Districts, Students, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: ethnic studies, Librotaficante, Mexican American Studies, Tony Diaz

Guest Post: From the Court to the Courtroom: Why It’s Unconstitutional for Fort Bragg High School to Silence Mendocino’s Student-Athletes

January 5, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Adam Juratovac is currently a football coach at Palo Alto high school (CA) and an attorney. He was a student-athlete, a 4-year Academic All-Conference selection from the University of Idaho, and an Arena Bowl XXIII Champion with the Spokane Shock. He is utilizing his athletic and legal background to build a support system for athletes […]

Filed Under: Athletics, Educators, San Francisco, School Districts, Students Tagged With: First Amendment, Free speech, I can't breathe, Mendocino

Voices From the Classroom: “Tell me when we can begin the healing so we can begin the learning.”

November 8, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD)

Jose del Barrio is a teacher in a Los Angeles Unified high school. Had a student in Saturday detention today. As he worked doing his community service we had a long heart to heart. His mother left him and his older brother and yonder sister when he was 7 years old in El Salvador to […]

Filed Under: Bilingual education, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Districts, Students, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: Jose del Barrio

“Live The Life That Was Meant For You”

November 6, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Stefania Pomponi is Clever Girls Collective’s Co-Founder, President and Chief Evangelist. A respected social media thought leader and nationally recognized, award-winning blogger, she leads Clever Girls Collective’s corporate communications and PR efforts and has been instrumental in inking several key deals. Clever Girls was recently named 21st of the Top 50 Fastest Growing Companies by the […]

Filed Under: Parents, School Districts, Students Tagged With: Emotional/Social Health

Racial Justice In Schools Starts With Teacher Cultural Competency, Not “NYPD” T-Shirts

September 17, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

By Sabrina Stevens. She is executive director of Integrity In Education and a former teacher and now education activist. Though some may view the police as “community helpers” who “protect and serve,” members of communities of color simply do not have that luxury. Within our communities, the reality of racialized mass incarceration and a growing […]

Filed Under: Educators, New York City, State Education Law, Students Tagged With: Eric Garner, excessive force, extrajudicial killings, police brutality, school to prison pipeline

#educolor Calling *IN* All Anti-Racist, Anti-Sexist BATs: Your Voices and Actions Are Needed

July 7, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

This opinion piece is by Cynthia Liu, founder of K-12 News Network.  UPDATE 7-9-14: the person whose ugly tweet was reproduced below has apologized for his behavior and BATs co-founders insisted he do so. In addition the National BATs released the following message on Facebook (responses also at the link) following this incident: “Official BAT […]

Filed Under: Educators, Students Tagged With: #educolor, NEA RA 2014

Photo Gallery: Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve Rally 8-May-2014

May 8, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Filed Under: Los Angeles, Students Tagged With: Demonstration, LAUSD, protest, Rally, resistance, SLASD, struggle, Student Organizing

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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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