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Archives for July 2016

(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Opt-Out)

July 28, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

“All students must participate fully in GHCHS assessments in their 9th, 10th and 11th grade year to be eligible to participate in optional activities such as senior activities, school extracurricular activities and school athletics. Students who clearly disregard an assessment as determined by the testing coordinator or test proctor will be regarded as having refused […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Common Core, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, The Testing Industry Tagged With: Charters, GHCHS, Granada Hills Charter High School, high stakes standardized testing, Opt-Out

LAUSD Law

July 14, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

The 14-year-old student “went to a motel in which she engaged in voluntary consensual sex with her teacher. Why shouldn’t she be responsible for that?” – W. Keith Wyatt, representing the LAUSD The LAUSD’s Office of the General Counsel (GC) employs a legal staff whose mission is to “provide effective and proactive legal advice and […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents Tagged With: David Holmquist, Eric Ortiz, LAUSD, LAUSD Office of the General Counsel, Littler Mendelson PC, Office of the General Counsel, Vanderford & Ruiz, W. Keith Wyatt

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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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