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Los Angeles Unified’s "Teacher Jail"

May 27, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Brian Hayes is a veteran teacher in Southern California. His piece refers to how, after a child predator on staff was caught and removed from MIramonte Elementary School, hundreds of teachers who had no connection to the predator were also removed and kept in isolation. Many are still there or have lost their jobs. Read […]

Filed Under: Los Angeles, School Districts Tagged With: LAUSD, Superintendent John Deasy

BREAKING: American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles, Resubmits Stuart Magruder Appointment to LAUSD Bond Oversight Committee

May 23, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

This press release was issued by the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles chapter just now. It calls for the re-appointment of Stuart Magruder to a second term on the Bond Oversight Committee that has been providing professional feedback on Los Angeles Unified use of bond funds for school facilities. AIA-LA Statement, LAUSD Citizens Oversight […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Ed Tech, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, State Education Law Tagged With: iPads, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, School Funding

LAUSD School Board Tries to Un-Appoint iPad Watchdog Stuart Magruder From Bond Oversight Committee

May 22, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Karen Wolfe is an LAUSD parent activist and supporter of public schools with children who currently attend district schools. LAUSD Wants Rigor? Well, maybe… The LAUSD school board on Tuesday rejected the reappointment of one of its most rigorous overseers in what many see as retaliation for questioning the use of bond funds to purchase […]

Filed Under: Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: iPads, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board

Markham MS Community to Protest PLAS Policies started under Marshall Tuck

May 20, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Former PLAS CEO Marshall Tuck’s school-to-prison-pipeline legacy for children of color lives on in the policies he established at Markham Middle School. However, the community is tired and fighting back! African-American and Latino parents/students to unite with Community groups and United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) to speak out against discriminatory practices against African-American students, parents, […]

Filed Under: Los Angeles Tagged With: Marshall Tuck, PLAS, prison pipeline, Racism, rdsathene, struggle, The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools

Voters Wondering Who Can Fill Henry Waxman's Shoes — Pound the Pavement

May 16, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

by Karen Wolfe. Karen is an LAUSD parent leader and activist in support of public schools. It seems everyone is asking “Who can fill Henry Waxman’s shoes?” The Congressman sent to Washington in the post-Watergate wave became a legendary watchdog and one of the most influential liberals in Congress. Big shoes indeed. There is no […]

Filed Under: Elections, Los Angeles, State Education Law

Photo Gallery: Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve Rally 8-May-2014

May 8, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Filed Under: Los Angeles, Students Tagged With: Demonstration, LAUSD, protest, Rally, resistance, SLASD, struggle, Student Organizing

May 4 Candidate Forum: LAUSD School Board District 1 Special Election

May 8, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

I was asked to cover the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) School Board District 1 Special Election Candidate forum held on Saturday, May 4, 2014. The event took place at the University of Southern California (USC), and it was hosted by the Walton Family Foundation’s key neoliberal privatization organization—Parent Revolution. Parent Revolution, henceforth pRev—a […]

Filed Under: Elections, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Election, LAUSD, neoliberalism, NPIC, Privatization, School Board

May 1st Candidate Forum: LAUSD School Board District 1 Special Election

May 6, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

By Radhika, LAUSD community member. May 1st Candidate Forum: LAUSD School Board District 1 Special Election. I was a fan of the late Marguerite LaMotte, whose sudden death forced a Special Election. Of all LAUSD School Board Members, she was the most fearless in her advocacy for the children of District 1. I am a […]

Filed Under: Elections, Los Angeles, School Boards

Actual SBAC Testing Conditions (California)

May 3, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

K12NN will be posting experiences teachers have as they prepare their students for the SBAC or PARCC Common Core State Standards tests or actually administer them as testing season rolls out across the country. The SBAC and PARCC tests are to be administered by computer and they function as the end-of-year summative assessment for students. […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Ed Tech, The Testing Industry Tagged With: California, SBAC

More on SBAC Practice Tests (California)

May 2, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

K12NN will be posting experiences teachers have as they prepare their students for the SBAC or PARCC Common Core State Standards tests or actually administer them as testing season rolls out across the country. The SBAC and PARCC tests are to be administered by computer and they function as the end-of-year summative assessment for students. […]

Filed Under: Common Core, The Testing Industry Tagged With: SBAC

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Federal Policy

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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