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Miss the #KidsNotCuts Twitter Party? Here's the Recap

November 16, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

In case you missed the #kidsnotcuts Twitter party with our expert Lily Eskelsen (@NEAToday) as the featured guest, I’ve collected some of the tweet highlights. Good morning, all! Let’s get #kidsnotcuts Twitter Party started! Thanks for joining us Lily. Use @neatoday 2 any Qs u have re fed school $ — K-12 News Network (@K12NN) […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Educators, Federal Policy, NCLB, Parents Tagged With: Head Start, IDEA, special ed, Title I

Fiscal Showdown & Reduced Federal Spending on Education? We Say Kids, Not Cuts

November 14, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

My home state is California, and we just successfully survived our own state version of the “fiscal cliff” when it comes to education. Here, they were called the “trigger cuts.” If Proposition 30 — essentially part of the June 30, 2012 budget passed by the legislature that needed the people’s thumbs up at the ballot […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Educators, Federal Policy, Parents, Students

Comparisons of Propositions 30 and 38, Via EdSource & the California Budget Project

October 26, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

This one’s from EdSource, a very reliable non-profit education news outlet. EdSource: Proposition 30 | Proposition 38 Comparisons This one’s from the California Budget Project, also a very reliable non-profit state budget watchdog outlet that has excellent information on education. California Budget Project: How Do Propositions 30 & 38 Compare?

Filed Under: Budgets, Elections, Los Angeles, Orange County, Parents, Sacramento, San Francisco, State Education Law Tagged With: Proposition 30, Proposition 38

Why Rahm Does Not Care About the Kids in Chicago

October 22, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Chicago leads the country in the number of murders of any major city. Our mayor continues to ignore this fact and go ahead with funding and building new parks that cost $55 million downtown and a new river walk downtown that costs $100 million. My students on the South Side of the city live in […]

Filed Under: Chicago, Educators, School closures Tagged With: Chicago, Education, Mayor, poverty, Public, Students, Violence

"Won't Back Down": Round-Up Of Reviews Find It Boring, Propaganda-Filled

September 29, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

What’s supposed to be a charming, compelling movie that tugs at heart-strings and delivers the message that teacher’s unions are bad is instead dull, heavy-handed, and uninvolving, according to critics. In this movie, parents and teachers unite, and voila! The result is always and only a charter school. “Won’t Back Down” isn’t passing the low […]

Filed Under: Pittsburgh Tagged With: ALEC, Parent Activism, parent tricker, Trigger, Won't Back Down

The November 2012 Save California Public Schools Toolkit

September 27, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Step 1: Get informed. We’re on the verge of either saving our public schools from an annual cycle of disinvestment caused by budget cuts ($20 billion in the past 5 years) — or setting off harmful triggers if the November 2012 ballot initiatives to fund K-12 (or K-14) don’t pass. Proposition 30 and Proposition 38 […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Elections, Fixes, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Francisco, School Districts, State Education Law Tagged With: Arts funding, CA budget, California, School Funding

California Secretary of State's Official Titles and Summaries of Proposition 30 and Proposition 38

September 21, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

These are reproduced from pdfs found on the California Secretary of State’s website and are the official titles and summaries of Propositions 30 and 38. Proposition 30: Temporary Taxes to Fund Education. Guaranteed Local Public Safety Funding. Initiative Constitutional Amendment. CA Proposition 30: TEMPORARY TAXES TO FUND EDUCATION. GUARANTEED LOCAL PUBLIC SAFETY FUNDING. INITIATIVE CO… […]

Filed Under: Elections, Fixes, Los Angeles, Orange County, Parents, Sacramento, San Francisco, School Districts, State Education Law Tagged With: CA budget, California, California state school funding, Proposition 30, Proposition 38, School Funding

California Budget Project's Analysis of Propositions 30 and 38, For November 2012

September 20, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

California Budget Project‘s Senior Policy Analyst and specialist in education issues, Jonathan Kaplan, recently released Budget Briefs analyzing the potential impact of two ballot initiatives in California that propose to fund K-12 education. This November, voters will decide if they want to vote for one, both, or none, and in order to do so, they’ll […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Elections, Fixes, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Francisco, State Education Law Tagged With: CA budget, California, Proposition 30, Proposition 38, School Funding

Here's A Great Stock Tip For You All!

September 18, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

If you want to make a lot of money and screw over millions of children, particularly inner-city children, all at the same time (and who doesn’t want to do that?), then join my favorite Governor Paul LePage and invest heavily in on-line learning. Studies have shown on-line learning to be a total sham when it […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Ed Tech, The Testing Industry Tagged With: Gates Foundation, Joseph K., Rupert Murdoch, Walton Foundation, Wireless Generation

What My Students Wrote in a Free Write About the Strike

September 15, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

The Friday before the strike was anticipated to possibly start here in Chicago. I asked my students the simple question at the end of a quiz, “Should your teachers go on strike?” Here is a sampling of their responses. This was a free write so I just typed what they had written. “I Support my […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Chicago, City, Curriculum, Educators, School Districts, Students Tagged With: Better School Day, Chicago, Chicago Teachers Strike, Evaluation, Fair Contract, Family, Raise, Strike

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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

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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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