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California Public School News Updates

March 29, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

  [wp_rss_multi_importer category=”2″]           Related articles Parent Trigger in California: False Promises and Failure Fiscal Showdown & Reduced Federal Spending on Education? We Say Kids, Not Cuts February 25 & 26, 2013: The Annual California PTA Legislative Conference (Teacher Evaluations) February 25 & 26, 2013: The Annual California PTA Legislative Conference […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Educators, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco, School Districts, State Education Law Tagged With: California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District

Pennsylvania Public School News Updates

March 29, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

[wp_rss_multi_importer category=”1″] Related articles Fiscal Showdown & Reduced Federal Spending on Education? We Say Kids, Not Cuts Community Schools, An Untapped Resource: A March 18, 2013 Convening Public School Districts Fight Back Against Privatization With District-Based, All Public “Schools of Choice” No Teachers With Guns, No Police In Schools

Filed Under: Budgets, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, State Education Law Tagged With: Pennsylvania

Community Schools, An Untapped Resource: A March 18, 2013 Convening

March 26, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

By Deb McCurdy, Special to K12NN On March 18, 2013, public education advocates, administrators, school board members, school administrators, non-profit organizations and philanthropists convened at the California Endowment in downtown Los Angeles. The event followed from a discussion a group of First District CA PTA delegates had with State Senator Carol Liu’s staff on state […]

Filed Under: Educators, Fixes, Innovations, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School Districts, Uncategorized Tagged With: California, California Endowment, Carol Liu, Community school, Community Schools, Education, John Deasy, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District

February 25 & 26, 2013: The Annual California PTA Legislative Conference (Teacher Evaluations)

March 9, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

There are so many reasons why California is poised to regain her leadership among states in public education. Most of them stem from the fact that policy-wise, we haven’t completely knuckled under to the damaging policies put forth by the Obama administration. We’ve been evasive on bending to the conditions required for a Race to […]

Filed Under: Curriculum, NCLB, State Education Law Tagged With: Common Core Standards, Standardized test

February 25 & 26, 2013: The Annual California PTA Legislative Conference (Budget/School Funding)

March 8, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

The California PTA Legislative Conference is an excellent gathering orchestrated by the state PTA and usually happens every spring after everyone’s had a chance to digest the governor’s January budget announcement and State of the State address. (KQED has provided 7, 15, and full 30 minute versions of the State of the State here.) We […]

Filed Under: Innovations, Parents, School Boards, State Education Law Tagged With: CA budget, California, California Common Core, California Department of Finance, California state school funding, Common Core Standards, English Language Learner, Jerry Brown, Public Policy Institute of California

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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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