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Marshall Tuck: Last Chance for Big Money Backers to Control LAUSD?

November 1, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Marshall Tuck endorsed discredited and disgraced John Deasy

Guest post by Los Angeles resident and edublogger Understanding Equity.   Dear Friends and Neighbors: Next week, you will have the opportunity to vote for the office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction. This is the first time I have made an appeal of this nature. As a retired teacher working with many other concerned […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Marshall Tuck, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torlakson

Associated Administrators of Los Angeles on teacher Torlakson v. banker Tuck

October 30, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

Re-elect Tom Torlakson: a teacher working for schools and kids

Don’t let the wealthy buy this election! — Associated Administrators of Los Angeles (AALA) From the November 3, 2014 issue of Update Tom Torlakson, California’s Superintendent of Public Instruction and AALA-supported candidate, needs your help to once again thwart the moneyed elite who unsuccessfully tried to defeat Monica Ratliff, Steve Zimmer, Bennett Kayser and Dr. […]

Filed Under: Los Angeles, State Education Law Tagged With: AALA, California State Superintendent of Instruction, Marshall Tuck, rdsathene, Tom Torlakson

Marshall Tuck Betrays Latino and African American Parents

October 21, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

By Cheryl Ortega, Director of Bilingual Education, UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles). Cheryl Ortega taught for 38 years in kindergarten and primary education bilingual programs in LAUSD.  She currently serves on the Board of Directors of UTLA as Director of Bilingual Education. She worked with Marshall Tuck and PLAS for a year at the request of parents […]

Filed Under: Bilingual education, Dual language immersion, Educators, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Districts Tagged With: Eli Broad, LAUSD, Los Angeles Unified School District, Marshall Tuck, The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, Tom Torlakson

Marshall Tuck endorsed discredited and disgraced John Deasy

October 18, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

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Plagued by multiple scandals, missteps, mismanagement, and allegations of possible malfeasance, discredited and disgraced John Deasy resigned in ignominy from the post of Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) Superintendent on October 16, 2014. Marshall Tuck, who failed miserably at both Green Dot Corporate Charters and the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, was among Deasy’s […]

Filed Under: Los Angeles Tagged With: Broad Superintendent Academy, Broad Urban Residency, California, Eli Broad, John Deasy, LAUSD, Marshall Tuck, rdsathene, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torlakson

Why Marshall Tuck, Candidate for State Superintendent of Schools, Is The Wrong Choice

October 14, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

Corporatists Dan Chang and Marshall Tuck

By Cheryl Ortega, Director of Bilingual Education, UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles). Cheryl Ortega taught for 38 years in kindergarten and primary education bilingual programs in LAUSD.  She currently serves on the Board of Directors of UTLA as Director of Bilingual Education.   I became acquainted with Mr. Tuck in 2008, the first year of the […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Educators, Elections, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Bilingual Education, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, Los Angeles, Marshall Tuck, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torlakson

California Teachers Should Re-Elect Tom Torlakson For State Superintendent of Instruction in 2014

October 1, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

      By Alice Mercer, a California teacher. Special to K12NN. California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson has been a real friend to public education in a lot of ways because he didn’t just stand up to Arne Duncan on the issue of teacher evaluation, he created a better alternative. Many teachers […]

Filed Under: Curriculum, Educators, Elections, State Education Law Tagged With: Alice Mercer, American Statistical Association, Larry Ferlazzo, Linda Darling Hammond, November 2014, SSPI, Tom Torlakson

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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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