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Bernie Sanders Takes a Sledgehammer to Student Debt

July 2, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

While his plan would eliminate all student debt, is this really the fairest way to address a $1.6 trillion problem?

Filed Under: Bernie Sanders Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Higher Ed, Student Debt, Student Loans

The LAUSD Widget Factory

December 2, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall” – Roger Waters The Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) School Experience Survey is an opportunity for parents and guardians to grade the District’s performance. Included in this questionnaire are important statements  such as “Reports of bullying are taken seriously at this school” and “This […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Higher Ed, School Report Cards

We Are United: Why Missouri’s Proposed Bill Restricting Student-Athletes’ Free Speech Is Unconstitutional

December 17, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

By Adam Juratovac Adam is an attorney, founder of AthletesLTD, and Team Captain of Team On 3. He advocates for athetes’ rights on the field and in the classroom through AthletesLTD’s academic and life skill programs.  FOLLOW ME: TWITTER: @JVACATTACK IG: @JVACATTACK FACEBOOK: @JVACATTACK   Earlier this year I wrote about athletes’ free speech, particularly their right to show support for […]

Filed Under: Athletics, Free Speech, State Education Law Tagged With: Higher Ed, Mizzou

College Affordability and Why Your Vote Matters

April 11, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Preserving college affordability will require concerted effort by over-18 voters and their parents, using all available legislative and other political efforts. It’s time to vote out representatives who don’t support public education at any level.

Filed Under: Budgets Tagged With: college, Higher Ed

A Teachable Moment: Alexandra Wallace and Beau Sia On Asians in the Library (Of the World)

March 17, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

A thoughtless rant larded with casual racism against Asian Pacific Americans made and released in haste is repented (and riffed endlessly and even artfully) at leisure. The web *is* kinda permanent, isn’t it?

Filed Under: Los Angeles, Students Tagged With: Higher Ed

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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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