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End education funding cuts: if this isn't your first priority in improving publi…

February 16, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

End education funding cuts: if this isn’t your first priority in improving public education, why not? Here’s a bright high school student’s take.Occupy High: A Protest of Education Funding Cuts (Guest Post by Kalila Bohsali)coopcatalyst.wordpress.comEv…

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MUST READ: how are the unelected Emergency Managers of two mostly African Americ…

February 16, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

MUST READ: how are the unelected Emergency Managers of two mostly African American school districts in MI working out? Community members have petitioned for suspension of the law that enabled inexperienced and sometimes corrupt managers from taking ove…

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Rick Santorum is opposed to a public school system overseen by the government, d…

February 16, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Rick Santorum is opposed to a public school system overseen by the government, despite having used $38,000/yr of taxpayer money to educate his own 7 children via online charter school. There it is. In a nutshell. Too bad, 88% of American schoolchildren…

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The Heartland Institute: muddying public opinion on climate science/encouraging…

February 16, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

The Heartland Institute: muddying public opinion on climate science/encouraging denial. Now privatizing schools too.How the Heartland Institute plans to wreck educationgrist.orgDeSmogBlog has publicized documents that illuminate the Heartland Institute…

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A national database tracks how well a given college prosecutes campus rape cases…

February 16, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

A national database tracks how well a given college prosecutes campus rape cases (i.e., supports victims, creates an environment where rapes are not tolerated). Reports compiled from students at the colleges show gaps between policy and implementation….

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The techno-scholastic complex wouldn't exist if the fetish for standardized test…

February 16, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

The techno-scholastic complex wouldn’t exist if the fetish for standardized test scores weren’t so intense. Corporations thrive on data. Kids thrive on exploration and experimentation.Texas Republican Blows the Whistle on the Techno-Scholastic Complexb…

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Are UT's "student savings accounts" — public money for education that follows t…

February 16, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Are UT’s “student savings accounts” — public money for education that follows the student — the new “voucher”?Utah Bill Would Give Public Education Money Directly To Student ‘Savings Accounts,’ Not Schoolswww.huffingtonpost.comFunding for public educ…

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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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