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“Creative” Charter School Finance: Orange County School of Arts…In Duarte (San Gabriel Valley)?

May 11, 2017 by K12NN Site Admin

By Elena de la Cuevas UPDATED 5-13-17 TO ADD California Department of Education denial of Duarte Unified’s Waiver #35-12-2016 (scroll to bottom of the post to view pdf file) The expansion of the Orange County School of the Arts (OSCA) to a sister site in the San Gabriel Valley has led to an complicated mix […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Educators, Los Angeles, Orange County, Profiteering, School Boards, School Districts

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) December General Assembly

November 29, 2016 by Robert D Skeels

Every month students, parents, and teachers of #StudentsDeserve gather to discuss and plan for the future of educational justice inside and outside our schools in Los Angeles. Considering the political state we are in, now more than ever we know that our grassroots work is important and necessary. For that reason, we invite YOU (students, parents, and teachers) to […]

Filed Under: Educators, Los Angeles, Parents Tagged With: ethnic studies, LAUSD, LCFF, rdsathene, resistance, resistance to privatization, SLASD, struggle

Democracy’s Necessary For the LAUSD Superintendent Search

October 8, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Vet the Supe, along with other grassroots organizations, has called for the search process for new Superintendent of LAUSD to be an open and transparent one. While grasstops groups like the United Way, Urban League, and other non-profits aligned with Eli Broad demand access to a search committee, real on-the-ground teachers union members, parents, and […]

Filed Under: Educators, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School Districts, vet the Supe Tagged With: John Deasy, Superintendent John Deasy

Pros and Cons of Charter Schools

October 2, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Fix our Public Schools, don't Privatize!

Dov Rosenberg is an experienced public school teacher in North Carolina. Some of my issues with charter schools include: They benefit by serving families with the most parental involvement because it requires the knowledge and time to apply to a charter. This further concentrates families with less parental involvement in the traditional public schools. They […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Educators, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: North Carolina

A National NEA Endorsement Vote Now Could Damage State-Level Organizing

October 1, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Loren Scott is active in Los Angeles Democratic Party politics, the NEA, California Teachers Assocation. and a representative to UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles). This request is prompted by talk of NEA endorsing Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary which will determine the party’s nominee. A vote on the endorsement could occur as early […]

Filed Under: Educators, Elections, LAUSD, Lily Eskelsen-Garcia, NEA, Unionism Tagged With: 2016 Elections, Hillary Clinton

NEA Members Divided on Early Clinton Endorsement For The Democratic Primary

September 26, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Loren Scott is active in Los Angeles Democratic Party politics, the NEA, California Teachers Assocation. and a representative to UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles). This statement is prompted by talk of NEA endorsing Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary which will determine the party’s nominee. It was written after a tele-town hall held with […]

Filed Under: AFT, Educators, Elections, Lily Eskelsen-Garcia, NEA, Randi Weingarten

Why the Los Angeles Times Missed the Biggest Education News this Week

September 24, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

By Karen Wolfe. She is an LAUSD parent activist and supporter of public schools with children who currently attend district schools. According to the Los Angeles Times, there was not much to report: “Protestors Add a Little Rain to Otherwise Sunny Broad Museum Opening Day.” Not “Education Activists Rain on Eli Broad’s Parade” or even […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Charter Schools, Educators, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, Profiteering, School Districts, Students, Too Good For the LA TImes Tagged With: Eli Broad

#vetthesupe Teacher Perspectives on LAUSD’s Next Superintendent

September 7, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Jose Lara is the recipient the National Education Association Social Justice Activist Award 2015, an organization of 3 million members. He is a teacher in Los Angeles and a parent in Pico Rivera, CA. He can be reached at jlara2012@gmail.com. What do we need in the next superintendent in LAUSD? We need someone who is […]

Filed Under: Educators, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School Districts, Uncategorized, vet the Supe, Voices From the Classroom

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

Six Education Policies A 2016 Presidential Candidate Must Embrace

July 18, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

  On the eve of passage of amendments to the Senate’s Every Child Achieves Act, the Rev. Dr. William Barber, a distinguished contemporary Civil Rights leader, released a powerful statement of support that gave qualified support for the law’s draft reauthorization and pointed to the work ahead. He said: But as we under-resource our public […]

Filed Under: Community Schools, Curriculum, Educators, Elections, ESEA, Ethnic Studies, Federal Policy, Fixes, Innovations, NCLB, Parents, Profiteering, School Boards, School Districts, Students, The Testing Industry, Why We Need Ethnic Studies Tagged With: 2016 Elections, ECAA, ESEA, No Child Left Behind, No Child Left Behind Act

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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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