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Thank you John Oliver for exposing how charter schools steal from children

August 26, 2016 by Robert D Skeels

Say a Big Thank You to John Oliver!

“Fraud is a feature of deregulation, not a bug. When no one is looking, some people steal. Not everyone steals, but many do. That is why Ohio, Florida, Michigan, and California are scamming taxpayers.” — Professor Diane Ravitch The vile poverty pimps and privatization pushers of the lucrative charter school industry were infuriated when John […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: charter schools, Education, John Oliver, neoliberalism, NPE, Privatization, rdsathene, The Network for Public Education

The Network for Public Education Endorses Bennett Kayser for LAUSD District 5

February 27, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

The Network for Public Education Endorses Bennett Kayser for LAUSD District 5

NPE Board President, Diane Ravitch says, “Bennett Kayser has been a strong advocate for public education, for class size reduction, and for careful oversight of the LAUSD budget. As an experienced teacher, he understands the schools’ needs.” Network for Public Education endorses Bennet Kayser’s re-election for LAUSD School Board District 5 and asks you to support him […]

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Bennett Kayser, Board of education, Education Politics, Jackie Goldberg, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, NPE, Professor Diane Ravitch, rdsathene, School Board, The Network for Public Education

Join NPE’s letter writing campaign to Sen. Alexander and the HELP Committee

January 24, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Join NPE’s letter writing campaign to Sen. Alexander and the HELP Committee

Friends, I  wrote a letter for the Action Network letter campaign “Urge Senator Lamar Alexander and the members of  Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee to put an end to annual standardized testing”. Network for Public Education (NPE) is calling on Congress to support the adoption of Option 1 in Senator Lamar Alexander’s “Every […]

Filed Under: Federal Policy, The Testing Industry Tagged With: CCSS, corporate education agenda, high stakes standardized testing, NCLB, NPE, Pearson, Privatization, resistance, RTTT, struggle, The Network for Public Education

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 […]

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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