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Marshall Tuck’s ethnocentrism contradicts Californian values

October 22, 2018 by Robert D Skeels

Parents protesting Marshall Tuck for closing language programs. Photo by Ron Gochez.

First published in the LA Progressive * * * Business banker Marshall Tuck is running for California State Superintendent of Public Instruction again. He’s backed by the same ideologically charged billionaires as the last time — several of whom supported reactionary measures like Proposition 8. With nearly unlimited funding, voters will be deluged with Tuck’s […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Los Angeles, San Francisco, State Education Law Tagged With: ethnic studies, language rights, Marshall Tuck, Tony Thurmond

How fringe-right are business banker Marshall Tuck’s education views?

June 21, 2018 by Robert D Skeels

How fringe-right are business banker Marshall Tuck’s education views?

How reactionary is Marshall Tuck on education issues? One measure is to compare his views to those of the notoriously right-wing JBS and GOP stalwarts. Here we look at some critical issues facing students, families, and our public schools. Sources: ontheissues.org, marshalltuck.com, jbs.org Remember that Marshall Tuck, like his white supremacist counterparts Tom Horne and […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: California State Superintendent of Instruction, ethnic studies, language rights, Marshall Tuck, politics, State Superintendent of Public Instruction

The Network for Public Education Endorses Historic Ethnic Studies Graduation Requirement for LAUSD

October 14, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

“Remember that consciousness is power” — Kochiyama Yuri The Network for Public Education just released the following in support of ethnicstudiesnow‘s historic resolution to make the successful completion of an A-G approved Ethnic Studies course a high school graduation requirement in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD): As the President and Executive Director of […]

Filed Under: Curriculum, Los Angeles, School Districts Tagged With: California, Education, education policy, Education Politics, ethnic studies, language rights, LAUSD, NPE, rdsathene, resistance, struggle, The Network for Public Education

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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 […]

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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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