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Foreign language #testingFAIL #PearsonFAIL: why are states paying millions of do…

May 9, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Foreign language #testingFAIL #PearsonFAIL: why are states paying millions of dollars for recycled, shoddy test questions? Especially those states facing budget cuts AGAIN? NY Daily News: Ay, caramba! Foreign language versions of school exams riddled w…

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Today marks the beginning of the Community Schools National Forum, w/site visits…

May 9, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Today marks the beginning of the Community Schools National Forum, w/site visits to San Francisco examples of community schools. Find out more about full service school-community partnerships and how this approach addresses the educational, health, and…

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I'd say a society that says it's ok for 20% of American kids to live in poverty…

May 9, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

I'd say a society that says it's ok for 20% of American kids to live in poverty & millionaires who won't take on their fair share are the failure.Who Are the True 'Failures' in America's School System?www.huffingtonpos…

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New Orleans is 80% charter schools. Recall Naomi Klein's shock doctrine & how sh…

May 9, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

New Orleans is 80% charter schools. Recall Naomi Klein's shock doctrine & how she identifies New Orleans as a textbook case of "disaster capitalism" — opportunity for profiteers.Sen. Mary Landrieu touts New Orleans charter schools o…

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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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