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Candidate Red Flags: Democracy Lies In Your Vote in the Special Election, March 5th, 2019

March 4, 2019 by Dr. Rocio Rivas

Jackie Goldberg is the only clear choice to stop the plan between Eli Broad and the public officials he has purchased from making sure LAUSD fails and is broken apart.

Filed Under: Call to Action, Charter Schools, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Allison Bajracharya, Eli Broad, Heather Repenning, Jackie Goldberg, Jose Huizar, LAUSD, Ref Rodriguez, School board elections

¡Ref Rodriguez: RESIGN!

February 25, 2018 by Brad

LAUSD School Board Member Ref Rodriguez continues to represent LAUSD stakeholders while accused of felony crimes. Please sign this petition demanding his resignation. En Español: ¡Ref Rodríguez: RENUNCIA! Ref Rodriguez has been charged with felony “…conspiracy, perjury and procuring and offering a false or forged instrument, as well as 25 misdemeanor counts related to alleged […]

Filed Under: Call to Action, Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, Profiteering, School Boards

Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil: The Failures of LAUSD’S Charter School Division

September 11, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

State law provides that an authorizer is not liable for debts, obligations [or] liabilities so long as [they] provide appropriate oversight. We believe we are providing appropriate oversight.” [emphasis mine] – José Cole-Gutiérrez As the District slides towards bankruptcy due to declining enrollment, the LAUSD School Board is set to act on another round of […]

Filed Under: Call to Action, Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Celerity, CSD, GHCHS, Granada Hills Charter High School, ICEF, Jose Cole-Gutierrez, LAUSD, LAUSD Charter School Division, LAUSD School Board, Mónica García

Means, Motive, and Opportunity: Forcing the LAUSD School Board to Hold GHCHS Accountable to Their Charter

August 28, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

Charter schools may not enact admissions requirements or other barriers to enrollment and must admit all students who apply, just as traditional public schools cannot turn away students.” – ACLU On Tuesday, August 23, 2017, I made a third presentation to the LAUSD School Board about the enrollment practices of Granada Hills Charter High School […]

Filed Under: Call to Action, Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Accountability, bankruptcy, Charter Accountability, GHCHS, Granada Hills Charter High School, Holding GHCHS Accountable to Their Charter, LAUSD, Special Education

Quick Education Voter’s Guide to the California CD34 Race, April 4, 2017

April 2, 2017 by K12NN Site Admin

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 […]

Filed Under: Call to Action, Charter Schools, Elections, Federal Policy, Los Angeles Tagged With: CA CD34

Lawsuit Opens Door To Potential Student Data Privacy Breach: California Parents Opt Out Here By April 1, 2016

February 15, 2016 by K12NN Site Admin

By Jeanne Berrong Parents of California schoolchildren: If your child was or has been a student in California public schools since January, 2008, their personal records will be released to a private party as the result of a lawsuit filed by a non-profit requesting public records. That means their social security numbers, mental health records, […]

Filed Under: Call to Action, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Francisco, Student Data Privacy, Too Good For the LA TImes Tagged With: FERPA, SOPIPA, Student data privacy

Next #DemDebate MUST Include K-12 Education Policy

October 22, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

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 […]

Filed Under: Bernie Sanders, Call to Action, Common Core, Elections, ESEA, Federal Policy, Hillary Clinton, Parents, School Districts, The Testing Industry Tagged With: 2016 Elections, Election

Join Voices Against Privatizing Public Education’s efforts to repeal the California charter school law

August 8, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Join Voices Against Privatizing Public Education's efforts to repeal the California charter school law

There is a small grass-roots group that has been working diligently to create a ballot proposition to repeal the charter school laws. While a seemingly daunting task, there might not ever be another chance to do this before the privatizers eliminate public schools altogether (Eli Broad just announced his plans to cut LAUSD’s public schools […]

Filed Under: Call to Action, Charter Schools Tagged With: Charter school, charter school corruption, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, resistance

CALL TO ACTION: Vote YES on Senate Amendment 2100 and Put Community Schools at the Center of ESEA Reauthorization

July 13, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

From our friends at Coalition for Community Schools: This week, as early as tomorrow, the Senate will vote on the amendment being offered by Sen. Brown (D-OH) (Senate Amendment 2100) to establish a community schools grant program, and we need your help to get this passed. This will be a tougher vote to pass as […]

Filed Under: Call to Action, Community Schools, Elections, ESEA, Federal Policy

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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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