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LAUSD School Board Member-Elect Ref Rodriguez’s Financial Disclosures (And Possible Conflicts of Interest)

June 10, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

The voters of Los Angeles Unified School District 5 have made a big mistake in electing Ref Rodriguez to the school board this past May. Questions remain about his financial ties to various organizations he holds leadership positions in that would represent a conflict of interest if, as a LAUSD school board member, he were […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Profiteering, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: California Charter Schools Association, CCSA, Los Angeles Unified School District

Was Refugio “Ref” Rodriguez self-dealing and running front groups?

June 4, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Was Refugio “Ref” Rodriguez self-dealing and running front groups?

By Robert D Skeels Currently under investigation by a number of authorities, including the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Office of Inspector General and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, Charter industry mogul Refugio “Ref” Rodriguez’s innumerable front groups are hard to keep track of. The following articles should help contextualize the situation, […]

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

SBAC/CAASPP or PARCC: Question the Tests

June 3, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Pamela Casey Nagler is a longtime Claremont resident, a former student of Claremont public schools and a high school teacher at nearby Montclair High School. She remembers taking one standardized test when she attended Claremont High School – the Ohio Achievement Test – that was essentially an aptitude test to identify an individual’s strengths and […]

Filed Under: Ed Tech, Educators, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Profiteering, Research, The Testing Industry, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: CAASPP, PARCC, 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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