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There Shouldn’t Be An LAUSD Strike (Read On, It’s Not What You Think)

January 13, 2019 by Brad

Op-Ed: THERE SHOULD BE NO STRIKE By Richard Wagoner Leaders and Board members of Los Angeles Unified School District would like the public to believe that the looming teachers strike is all about salary. Indeed, it could easily be: teachers have not received a raise in three years, the request by the Union (and the […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, Too Good For the LA TImes, Unionism

Community Schools At The Margins Of Current ESEA Reauthorization Debates: Center Them In Bernie Sanders’ Presidential Education Platform

July 13, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Right this very moment in the U.S. Senate, Senators are debating amendments being offered to the Senate-side bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA, the current version commonly referred to as No Child Left Behind). Given that we have a sitting Senator (Bernie Sanders, I-VT) involved in the process and a past […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Charter Schools, ESEA, Federal Policy, Fixes, Magnet schools

LAUSD: Haste Makes Ed Tech Waste

December 2, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

By Cynthia Liu, CEO/Founder of K12NN. [BREAKING: The FBI carted away 20 boxes of documents relating to the iPad purchase from LAUSD offices late Monday, December 1, 2014.] Two education technology disasters mark the former LAUSD Superintendent’s brief tenure: the iPad debacle, born from cozy relationships with vendors and dependent upon broadband infrastructure that, in […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Ed Tech, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, Too Good For the LA TImes Tagged With: Broad Superintendent Academy, John Deasy, Superintendent John Deasy

Los Angeles Unified Must Refocus: Five Ways Bad Ed Tech Deals in LAUSD Hurt Kids Right Now

October 1, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Recently released investigative reports by Southern California radio station KPCC have increased public scrutiny of Superintendent John Deasy’s cozy relationships with Apple and Pearson executives in the period 2011 to 2013, before both corporations won the 2013 bid to supply Los Angeles Unified with iPads and software. This is the infamous “$1 billion iPad” deal […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Budgets, Ed Tech, Educators, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, The Testing Industry Tagged With: Deasy, iPads, LAUSD, MiSiS, Superintendent John Deasy

iPad Watchdog Stuart Magruder’s Re-Appointment: Which Way Will LAUSD Go?

June 10, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

The question for many school districts around the country this spring was this: how are they supposed to give computer-based, end-of-year Common Core State Standards (CCSS) tests? For over a year in Los Angeles Unified, parents, students, teachers, and community members have wrestled with the details of Superintendent John Deasy’s 1:1 iPad program and its […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Budgets, Ed Tech, Los Angeles, School Boards, The Testing Industry Tagged With: Deasy, John Deasy, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, 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

March 14, 2014: Remarks at the Association of Children's Librarians Annual Institute

March 19, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Cynthia Liu is CEO/Founder of K-12 News Network. On March 14, 2014, I was invited to speak to the Association of Childen’s Librarians of Northern California at their annual Institute in the beautiful San Francisco Main Public Library. Here’s the substance of the talk I gave. In re-arranging my address to the ACL for publication […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Common Core, Educators, Innovations, Los Angeles, Orange County, Parents, Sacramento, San Francisco, School Districts, State Education Law, Students, The Testing Industry

LAUSD iPads and the Will of the Voters: Just the Facts, Please

November 13, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

Commentary by Public Policy Educator, Ellen Lubic, Director, Joining Forces for Education Today, Diane Ravitch posted on her website an article on the LA Times editorial which once again lambasted the Board of Education for micro managing the ‘poor beleaguered’ Superintendent of LAUSD, John Deasy. The title of Diane’s writing is Putting Bureaucrats First.  Evidently the LA […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Common Core, Curriculum, Ed Tech, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Deasy, iPads, John Deasy, Parent Revolution

Might Makes Right When Viewing LAUSD and California Nepotism…..or Does It?

October 9, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

Guest post by Ellen Lubic, educator and angry taxpayer. She is Director of Joining Forces for Education, a new non-profit group based in Los Angeles. Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times printed two stories that affect public school education, and those who ‘dabble’ in it.  One was by journalist Howard Blume on the Billion Dollar iPad scandal at LAUSD, […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Ed Tech, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Eli Broad, iPads

Open Letter to President Obama — The One Book You Should Read on Public Education: Reign of Error, By Diane Ravitch

September 20, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

by Cynthia Liu Dear President Obama, You must read Professor Diane Ravitch’s latest book, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools. You won’t like it. No one likes reading about their failures. And that’s exactly WHY you should read it. Your legacy is at stake. You […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Curriculum, Educators, Federal Policy, NCLB, Parents, School Boards, School Districts, State Education Law, The Testing Industry Tagged With: Ravitch, Reign of Error, review

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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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