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(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

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

Open Letter to Parents on Common Core Testing Results

September 1, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Dear Parents, Soon California will release the results of your child’s Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, or SBAC tests. These tests are also known as the new Common Core test that California and states across the country implemented last year. Please know that as you receive the results of your child’s SBAC scores our child’s results […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Common Core, Educators, Profiteering, The Testing Industry

Commentable Version: Chair’s Report on The Common Core Technology Project Ad Hoc Committee

August 27, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Many have wondered what the Chair’s Report on the Common Core Technology Project Ad Hoc Committee actually says. This is the committee that has formally tracked progress and implementation of LAUSD’s ed tech program. We’ve obtained a publicly-released copy of the 118-page report, written under the leadership of LAUSD School Board Member Monica Ratliff (official […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: ed tech, iPads, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, Los Angeles Unified School District, The Common Core Technology Project

K12NN Open Government Initiative: Public Records Requests of the LAUSD iPad Requests For Proposals (RFP)

August 25, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

This is what we at K12NN do: we prod traditional corporate-owned media to rise to a higher level of investigative journalism when it comes to putting the public good and the well-being of public education front and center. Last fall, when the iPad story was first reported in the major Los Angeles-area news outlets, the […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Ed Tech, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Apple, iPad, KPCC, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Pearson

Actual SBAC Testing Conditions (California)

May 3, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

K12NN will be posting experiences teachers have as they prepare their students for the SBAC or PARCC Common Core State Standards tests or actually administer them as testing season rolls out across the country. The SBAC and PARCC tests are to be administered by computer and they function as the end-of-year summative assessment for students. […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Ed Tech, The Testing Industry Tagged With: California, SBAC

More on SBAC Practice Tests (California)

May 2, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

K12NN will be posting experiences teachers have as they prepare their students for the SBAC or PARCC Common Core State Standards tests or actually administer them as testing season rolls out across the country. The SBAC and PARCC tests are to be administered by computer and they function as the end-of-year summative assessment for students. […]

Filed Under: Common Core, The Testing Industry Tagged With: SBAC

SBAC Field Tests: An Experiment With Chromebooks

April 17, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

K12NN will be posting experiences teachers have as they prepare their students for the SBAC or PARCC Common Core State Standards tests or actually administer them as testing season rolls out across the country. The SBAC and PARCC tests are to be administered by computer and they function as the end-of-year summative assessment for students. […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Ed Tech, Educators, The Testing Industry Tagged With: SBAC

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

A Closer Look at Common Core’s ‘Close Reading’ Strategy Reveals Deep Flaws

January 14, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Special to K-12 News Network, from Coleen Bondy. She is in her eighth year teaching English and journalism at an LAUSD Title One high school in Reseda, Calif.   I went to an LAUSD training on the Common Core State Standards in November, and after the training I had many more concerns about the intent […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Educators, Los Angeles, School Boards, State Education Law Tagged With: California Common Core, CORE

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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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