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Los Angeles education politics roundup for late January 2015

January 24, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Stop corporate charter school greed, stop Ref Rodriguez!

A few items discussing school board and other races happening in Los Angeles… Statement on Gates and Broad Foundation funded United Way Greater Los Angeles running LAUSD forums Stop corporate charter school greed, stop Ref Rodriguez! Corporate education reform privatizer Tamar Galatzan’s greatest neoliberal hits at LAUSD A reader asks about Marqueece Harris-Dawson and Community […]

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

Join NPE’s letter writing campaign to Sen. Alexander and the HELP Committee

January 24, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Join NPE’s letter writing campaign to Sen. Alexander and the HELP Committee

Friends, I  wrote a letter for the Action Network letter campaign “Urge Senator Lamar Alexander and the members of  Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee to put an end to annual standardized testing”. Network for Public Education (NPE) is calling on Congress to support the adoption of Option 1 in Senator Lamar Alexander’s “Every […]

Filed Under: Federal Policy, The Testing Industry Tagged With: CCSS, corporate education agenda, high stakes standardized testing, NCLB, NPE, Pearson, Privatization, resistance, RTTT, struggle, The Network for Public Education

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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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