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Parents’ Guide To Charter Schools: How Do They Work?

November 25, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

By Name Withheld for job-security reasons First, a note: Are charter schools public schools? I describe them as private schools run with public money. The charter sector will insist that they’re public schools when it suits them and insist that they’re not public schools when it suits them. The common term for non-charter public schools […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Charter Schools, School closures, School Districts, School Vouchers

People-Powered Public Education News: K-12 News Network Turns Four!

January 23, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

K12NN fourth birthday

It’s January, 2015, and K-12 News Network has been doing ground-breaking, people-powered public education news covered from the classroom up for FOUR years now! Thank you, readers, bloggers, and activists, for being folks actively making a new kind of education news. Some highlights from our first four years: In August, 2010, when the LA Times […]

Filed Under: Ed Tech, Educators, Federal Policy, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School closures, School Districts, State Education Law, The Testing Industry, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: #educolor, citizen media, ed tech, iPads, ipads for schools

Guest Commentary on Marshall Tuck by Joining Forces for Education’s Ellen Lubic

October 30, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Joining Forces for Education was formed in response to Ben Austin’s public school bulldozer outfit, the Walton Family Foundation funded Parent Revolution. Ellen Lubic occasionally contributes to Professor Ravitch’s site.   The Real Marshall Tuck, and Why He Insures My Vote for Tom Torlakson for California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Now that the billionaires such […]

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School closures, School Districts, The Testing Industry Tagged With: Marshall Tuck, Wall Street Investors

ICYMI: Video Highlights From the Network For Public Education’s PUBLIC “Education Nation”

October 15, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

The Network for Public Education

MSNBC has a show that is practically a commercial for the privatization of public education called “Education Nation.” Fans of charter schools, “school choice,” and other trendy approaches to education that enrich ed tech companies are all invited. Voices of those who feel the public education system — for all its flaws — is worthwhile […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Chicago, Detroit, Ed Tech, Educators, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, School closures, The Testing Industry Tagged With: Carol Burris, Common Core, Diane Ravitch, High Stakes Standardized Tests, MSNBC Education Nation

Social Movement Unionism Comes to the Teachers Unions at Last

July 16, 2014 by

I am an activist and organizer who recently joined the fight against “education reform,” which is really code for the attempt by corporations, billionaires and hedge funds and the industry they have spawned, to privatize public education and break the teachers unions. I have been frustrated at the seeming lack of interest on the part […]

Filed Under: Educators, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St Paul, New York City, Philadelphia, School closures Tagged With: AFT, teachers unions, UFT, UTLA

Why Rahm Does Not Care About the Kids in Chicago

October 22, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Chicago leads the country in the number of murders of any major city. Our mayor continues to ignore this fact and go ahead with funding and building new parks that cost $55 million downtown and a new river walk downtown that costs $100 million. My students on the South Side of the city live in […]

Filed Under: Chicago, Educators, School closures Tagged With: Chicago, Education, Mayor, poverty, Public, Students, Violence

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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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