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New Report Finds Over $200 Million in Fraud and Abuse at Charter Schools

April 28, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Charter School Fraud Robs ALL our students!

“The Tip of the Iceberg: Charter School Vulnerabilities to Waste, Fraud, and Abuse” Exposes Costly Consequences of Lacking Charter Schools Accountability, Transparency ** Full report available here: http://bit.ly/1DDlpjM ** A new report by the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools (AROS) and the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) found that financial fraud, waste, and mismanagement by […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: abuse, CCSA, charter schools, fraud, NAPCS, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene

LAUSD District 5: Money, education and the school board race! On KPFK’s Politics or Pedagogy? with John Cromshow

April 27, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

KPFK's Politics or Pedagogy? with John Cromshow

Featuring an analysis of education, policy and practice affecting our public schools. KPFK 90.7 FM KPFK’s Politics or Pedagogy? with John Cromshow Tuesday, April 28 7:00 PM Call in number: (818) 985-5735 TOPIC: Money, education and the school board race. Case in point, LAUSD District 5. It takes money to run a political campaign – […]

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Bennett Kayser, CCSA, LAUSD, neoliberalism, plutocrats, Politics or Pedagogy?, Privatization, rdsathene, Ref Rodriguez, School board elections

The Daily Breeze’s Pulitzer Win Is Everybody’s Win Too: Join K12NN And Grassroots Investigative Journalism on the Education Beat

April 24, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

This past week the Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism were announced, and we were elated that we didn’t win! (We forgot to enter. 😉 ) But another Southern California local news outlet did, for an investigative series they produced on corruption in Centinela Valley Union High School District. We’re exceedingly proud any time people who give […]

Filed Under: School Boards, School Districts, State Education Law, The Testing Industry

How is CCSA’s Ref Rodriguez hiding his billionaire and ideologue contributors?

April 20, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

CCSA's Ref Rodriguez

“In the long run, charter schools are being strategically used to pave the way for vouchers. The voucher advocates, who are very powerful and funded by right-wing foundations and families, recognize that the word voucher has been successfully discredited by enlightened Americans who believe in the public sector. So they’ve resorted to two strategies. First, […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: ableism, Bennett Kayser, Board of education, California Charter Schools Association, CCSA, discrimination, LAUSD, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, Ref Rodriguez, School Board, Students with Disabilities

“NY’s New Teacher Rating System is a Farce,” And Experienced Corporate Managers Agree

April 11, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Damon Buffum is a school board member in NY state and a supporter of a strong public education system. This post is republished with his permission. Full disclosure: I’m a Corporate Guy. For the past 26 years I’ve worked for large, multinational, corporations. I’ve worked for my current corporation for the past 19 years and […]

Filed Under: Educators, School Boards, School Districts, State Education Law, Value-added measures Tagged With: NY, Teacher evaluations

Why can’t the LA Times get early education right?

April 8, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

School Readiness Language Development Program (SRLDP)

In How to even the educational playing field for Latino kids The Los Angeles Times discusses the work of UC Berkeley’s Professor Bruce Fuller, but draw several wrong conclusions. They get it half right when they say “The discrepancy starts much earlier, and even high-quality preschool makes up only about a third of the deficit.” […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: early education, LAUSD, preschool, rdsathene, School Readiness Language Development Program, SRLDP

Help Pass H.R. 973 & Secure A Full Retirement for Teachers!

April 8, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Should affiliated groups and former allies of teachers be speaking up about full social security benefits for teachers? Yes they should, but many of these groups have been quiet so far. The teachers unions are currently working hard to pass H.R. 973, a bill that would remove penalties on teachers retiring in several states where […]

Filed Under: Educators Tagged With: HR 973

K12NN Podcast: ESEA Reauthorization With Parents Across America

April 8, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Check Out Politics Progressive Podcasts at Blog Talk Radio with MOMocrats on BlogTalkRadio The Parents Across America 2/23/15 position paper with highlights to desired changes in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is embedded below for your convenience. Follow along as I talk with Pamela Grundy about how to re-orient national education policy for the […]

Filed Under: Bilingual education, Charter Schools, Curriculum, DC, Federal Policy, NCLB

PROFITS! Why Ref Rodriguez and his CCSA covet the LAUSD Board Seat

April 3, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

PROFITS! Why Ref Rodriguez and his CCSA covet the LAUSD Board Seat

“The education industry represents, in our opinion, the final frontier of a number of sectors once under public control… represents the largest market opportunity… the K-12 market is the Big Enchilada.” — Montgomery Securities prospectus quoted in Jonathan Kozol’s The Big Enchilada Most of the time the charter school industry’s corporate leadership is able to […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Profiteering, School Boards Tagged With: ableism, Bennett Kayser, Board of education, California Charter Schools Association, CCSA, discrimination, LAUSD, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, Ref Rodriguez, School Board, Students with Disabilities

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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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