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Chicago Public Schools: subject to "Mayor 1%" Rahm Emanuel's harsh, privatizing…

December 28, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Chicago Public Schools: subject to “Mayor 1%” Rahm Emanuel’s harsh, privatizing “turnaround” tactics.Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1%www.commondreams.orgRahm Emanuel, whom Occupy Chicago has dubbed Mayor 1%, fired another shot at the city’s public sc…

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Taxpayer money to support private religious schools — how? By using tricky word…

December 28, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Taxpayer money to support private religious schools — how? By using tricky words like “school choice” to fool the public.The Moneychangers: How Florida’s “Education Reform” Movement Uses Religion to Manipulate the Public In the wake of a recent circui…

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MITx offers free access to courses also offered at the university; doesn't lead…

December 28, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

MITx offers free access to courses also offered at the university; doesn’t lead to an MIT degree, but instead a certificate of completion. It may also suck the air out of online for-profit colleges who have no bricks/mortar presence, nor do they have a…

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Some great news about Latino enrollment at CA state colleges — it's up at CSU's…

December 28, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Some great news about Latino enrollment at CA state colleges — it’s up at CSU’s! Let’s make sure the UC’s are also in reach, & retention & graduation rates stay strong. Calif. Schools Lead the Way Preparing Next Generation of Workers: Latinos – New Am…

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AZ judge rules Mexican American Studies in violation of AZ law — a clear attack…

December 28, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

AZ judge rules Mexican American Studies in violation of AZ law — a clear attack on Mexican Americans. Why were African American, Native, and Asian American studies in Tucson not similarly targeted?Tucson’s ethnic-studies program violates Arizona law, …

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More school officials seem emboldened to include Christian religious observance,…

December 28, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

More school officials seem emboldened to include Christian religious observance, contra First Amendment principles, in public school activities. 🙁 Via ACLU Nationwide, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Americans Against Islamophobia…

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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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