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Is there any billionaire, charter profiteer, poverty pimp, or right-wing ideologue that Alex Johnson won’t take money from?

August 8, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

Poverty pimp Alex Johnson puts profits before pupils

In calling for a special election, what Mark Ridley-Thomas, Alex Johnson, Rev. Tulloss, Corri Revere, and the charter schools along with their billionaire puppet masters are really saying is we have to hurt the children to protect the children.—Celes King IV We’ve looked at some of Alex “ALEC” Johnson’s funders during the primary election in […]

Filed Under: Elections, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Alex Johnson, CCSA, Dr. George McKenna, Eli Broad, LAUSD, Michelle Rhee, Privatization, rdsathene, StudentsFirst

K12NN Action: Decline to Sign Rhee's Attack on Teacher Seniority (Ballot Initiative)

December 19, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

  Newsflash from the December 18, 2013 Sacramento Bee: A ballot measure submitted by a political consultant for education advocate Michelle Rhee seeks to remove seniority as a factor when California school districts lay off teachers, requiring that they instead base decisions on performance ratings. Performance, under the proposal, would be determined in part based […]

Filed Under: Educators, Elections, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Francisco, State Education Law, Uncategorized Tagged With: Decline to Sign, High Quality Teacher Act 2014, HQTA, Michelle Rhee

Michelle Rhee Comes to Los Angeles; The City Shrugs

September 5, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

UPDATED: A student in attendance at the “Town Hall” wasn’t buying what Rhee was selling either. Michelle Rhee’s StudentsFirst group is holding a “Teacher Town Hall” meeting in Los Angeles on September 5, 2013, as part of a multi-city tour. I can’t fathom why anyone would be excited. As a Californian (since 1990), as an […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Curriculum, Educators, Los Angeles, School Districts, State Education Law Tagged With: California, Michelle Rhee, Standardized test, StudentsFirst

Robert D. Skeels: a community candidate for LAUSD School Board

February 21, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

What if the best candidate — measured on positions alone — is also the most under-funded candidate for Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education? At K-12 News Network, we thought you deserve to hear from an underdog. Note how plushly funded Michelle Rhee has just in the past 24 hours donated $250,000 to […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Elections, Los Angeles, New York City, School Boards Tagged With: $1 Million, Diane Ravitch, Eli Broad, Los Angeles Unified School District, Mayor Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg, Michelle Rhee

Michelle Rhee Offers Democrats Campaign Money/"Ed Reform" Expertise, They Refuse

June 13, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

One of the first things Michelle Rhee’s group, StudentsFirstNY, did upon launching in that state was approach Democratic Congressional candidate Hakeem Jeffries (NY-CD8) and offer him a six-figure, unregulated, third party donation to his campaign. They probably thought Jeffries was an easy mark, given the positions he’s taken in the past urging that New York […]

Filed Under: Elections, New York City, Parents Tagged With: Michelle Rhee, StudentsFirst

Connecticut Governor Malloy Calls Rhee 'Divisive', Declines A Joint Appearance

February 22, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

The Connecticut Parents Union is a statewide community-based group led by Gwen Samuel, a parent with a child in the New Haven city schools. The group had arranged a March 14, 2012 meeting with the Governor of Connecticut, Daniel Malloy, as part of a rally planned for that day. But Governor Malloy decided not to […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: DCPS, Michelle Rhee, parent engagement, Trigger, Value-added

#OccupyBigEd

December 31, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

When Republican Congressmen vote against higher nutrition standards for children’s school lunches, carrying out the wishes of “Big Ag” by making the tomato sauce on school lunch pizza the equivalent of a vegetable, we instantly know what that means. Public interests have been sold out again, and we the public have to rally our forces […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Charters, Conservative Ed Reform, Michelle Rhee, OccupyBigEd, online learning, Save Our Schools, Value-added

End Homophobic Bullying? Anti-Gay Allegations Won't Stop Michelle Rhee From Speaking at Church Conference

August 11, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Best known for her claim to put “Students First” and more controversially, to use student standardized test scores to evaluate teacher performance, Michelle Rhee will likely go ahead with plans to speak on Friday, August 12, 2011, at the Global Leadership Summit at Willow Creek, a conference held at a Chicago-area “mega-church.” …Rhee’s continued participation at the conference and lack of any statement regarding the need to accept and keep LGBT youth safe from bullies has riled many LGBT activists and caused allies to question Rhee’s devotion to her slogan.

Filed Under: Chicago, Educators, Federal Policy, School Districts, Students Tagged With: Anti-Bullying, Michelle Rhee

Improve Race to the Top — Here's How

January 28, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Responses to the NYT discussion by top education policymakers on the Obama Administration’s Race to the Top initiative, with independent suggestions for progressive education policy.

Filed Under: Federal Policy, Fixes Tagged With: Diane Ravitch, Michelle Rhee, Race to the Top

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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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