People-Powered Public Education News: K-12 News Network Turns Four!

January 23, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

It’s January, 2015, and K-12 News Network has been doing ground-breaking, people-powered public education news covered from the classroom up for FOUR years now! Thank you, readers, bloggers, and activists, for being folks actively making a new kind of education news. Some highlights from our first four years: In August, 2010, when the LA Times […]

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#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 […]

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@foolforcps 58 mins

Troubling report, for all that trauma. Thanks to the U of C Consortium on Chicago School Research for this bounty o… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
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How fringe-right are business banker Marshall Tuck’s education views? Via @K12NN thewire.k12newsnetwork.com/2018/06/21/how…
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Stroller jam at the NYC ICE offices protesting Trump's kidnapping/attempted hostage-taking of infants and children… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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ICE/DHS/ORR/CBP are negligent in providing ways for parents and children to reunite. These agency heads should be g… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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What would the proposed merger of the Depts of Ed and Labor look like? And what would be the benefit??? We know cor… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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 […]

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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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