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K12NN on the MOMocrats Podcast: The Battle in Seattle — Four Women Run for School Board

September 28, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

On Wednesday, September 28, 2011, Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills joined me for a lively Blog Talk Radio podcast with four women running for school board in Bill Gates’ backyard up in Seattle. Sharon Peaslee, Michelle Buetow, Kate Martin and Marty McLaren have a vision for education in their district, and we’ll hear why it doesn’t completely mesh with that of the Gates and the Broad Foundations’ plans for education reform in America. What’s the difference between what these candidates have to offer and “ed reform” (or as some say, “ed Rheeform”)?

Filed Under: Curriculum, Educators, Parents, School Boards, School Districts, Sea-Tac Tagged With: Broad Superintendent Academy, Seattle School Board

Dear Governor Brown, Please Sign AB250 For High Quality Education Into Law!

September 24, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

This is the high quality K-12 curriculum reform we’ve been waiting for that emphasizes creativity, collaboration, innovation, and critical thinking for 21st century learning. It’s what we need to keep California a leader in the worlds of art, science, technology and culture. Please join over 18 parent, educator, and community grassroots groups to urge Governor Brown to sign AB250 into law!

Filed Under: Curriculum, Fixes, Innovations, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Francisco, State Education Law Tagged With: AB250, California Common Core, Common Core Standards

Fund Education Now's Parent Activist, Kathleen Oropeza, on an Orlando Sentinel Education Panel

September 22, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

An important panel on public education with representatives who are politicians, parents, teachers, and others. See what Kathleen Oropeza, co-founder of the grassroots education advocacy group Fund Education Now, has to say.

Filed Under: Orlando

California School Funding 101: How the State Funds Your School

September 21, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

CA State School Funding: What’s Ahead for 2011-2012? Map of the Fullerton College campus that shows parking, building info. Park for free on the first floor of the Student Parking Garage at Lemon & Fullerton College Drive, or in Staff Lot 8 spaces. Online Ticketing for SAVE THE DATE! California School Funding 101: How the […]

Filed Under: Los Angeles, Orange County, State Education Law

Del Monte Cash for Teachers $25 Coupon Fruit & Veg Giveaway

September 20, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

K12NN is participating in Del Monte’s free giveaway of fresh fruit! Thanks to Del Monte, I’ll be giving away 3 sets of $25 gift certificates to parents and teachers all through September and into October as well. The 50th commenter to this post will get a $25 in gift certificates to purchase Del Monte whole […]

Filed Under: Promotions, Uncategorized Tagged With: Del Monte

GOP, Tea Party Influence Permeates Local Charter School

September 19, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

A Southern California charter school skirts legality in a number of ways: openly partisan electioneering on school grounds/with school mascots? Cozy cronyism between charter management organization heads and politicians who could influence the school’s real estate dealings? Stealth religious instruction? Keep in mind, it’s taxpayer money that funds the school.

Filed Under: Los Angeles, Orange County, Parents Tagged With: Charters

Poverty for American Families on the Rise — Personal Voices

September 17, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

46 million Americans live in poverty as jobs continue to be scarce and Americans lose their homes. Look at the faces of kids — some of them homeless — and listen to what they say about growing up hungry. Are these kids well-prepared for the tests and watered-down curriculum they get at school? An excellent education is also a form of nourishment that we cannot deny to our nation’s children.

Filed Under: Parents, Students

(Via KSDC) Cognition-Based Principles of Learning

September 13, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Bob Valiant, Ed. D., explains why he’s against the “drill-and-test” curriculum that seems to prevail in today’s version of “ed reform” — it takes no account of recent research in brain science and how children learn, among other reasons.

Filed Under: Educators Tagged With: Kennewick SD Citizens

Finland's Excellent Public Schools: A Smithsonian's-Eye View and A Former Citizen's Perspective

September 6, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

The Smithsonian Magazine featured Finnish schools in its September, 2011, magazine as written by an observant journalist visiting that country. K12NN highlights for you a prominent women’s lifestyle blogger’s perspective on the strengths and weaknesses of the Finnish education system as experienced throughout her childhood, and her own children’s experiences in American schools.

Filed Under: Curriculum, Educators, Federal Policy Tagged With: PISA

Taylor Mali: You Made A Difference

September 6, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Tell a teacher what a wonderful difference they made in your life. Upload a video to teacher-poet Taylor Mali’s YouTube channel and see all the other ones that have been posted.

Filed Under: Educators

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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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