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Why Marshall Tuck, Candidate for State Superintendent of Schools, Is The Wrong Choice

October 14, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

Corporatists Dan Chang and Marshall Tuck

By Cheryl Ortega, Director of Bilingual Education, UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles). Cheryl Ortega taught for 38 years in kindergarten and primary education bilingual programs in LAUSD.  She currently serves on the Board of Directors of UTLA as Director of Bilingual Education.   I became acquainted with Mr. Tuck in 2008, the first year of the […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Educators, Elections, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Bilingual Education, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, Los Angeles, Marshall Tuck, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torlakson

UTLA Bilingual Education Committee PSA: LAU V. NICHOLS

August 24, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

40th Anniversary of the Supreme Court Decision on Rights of Linguistic Minorities

40th Anniversary of the Supreme Court Decision on Rights of Linguistic Minorities In 1974, the attorneys for Kenny Lau and 1800 Chinese speaking students sued the San Francisco School District on the grounds that these students were not receiving equal access to an education by virtue of their inability to comprehend English. The unanimous decision […]

Filed Under: Bilingual education, Curriculum, Dual language immersion, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Districts, State Education Law, Why We Need Ethnic Studies Tagged With: Bilingual Education, civil rights, dual language immersion, Education, education policy, Education Politics, ELL, English Language Learners, rdsathene

40th Anniversary of Lau v. Nichols Decision: A National Conference on the Rights of Linguistic Minorities

August 18, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

40th Anniversary of Lau v. Nichols Decision

40th Anniversary of Lau v. Nichols Decision: A National Conference on the Rights of Linguistic Minorities

Filed Under: State Education Law Tagged With: Bilingual Education, civil rights, dual language immersion, Education, education policy, Education Politics, ELL, English Language Learners

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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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