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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

Three-Part Series: Fact-Checking LAUSD School Board District 4 “Facts,” Part III

February 27, 2017 by K12NN Site Admin

by Miriam Efrat. Read Part I here, read Part II here. Part Three:  Dumping the Blame Game and setting some records straight No one likes to have their parenting choices judged by strangers.  Engaged parents try to make choices that give their child the best possible opportunity in life.  Ultimately, the charter vs. public school […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, Too Good For the LA TImes Tagged With: Steve Zimmer

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

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

LA Times Report on Teacher Evaluations Incorrect

January 25, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Heather Poland (A Teacher’s Perspective) is a teacher in California. This piece is part of a series called Voices From the Classroom. It’s reposted from A Teacher’s Perspective with permission. Recently, the LA Times reported that, “Major California school districts are failing to comply with a state law that requires them to evaluate teachers in […]

Filed Under: Educators, LAUSD, Los Angeles, NCLB, State Education Law, The Testing Industry, Too Good For the LA TImes, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: California, Common Core State Standards Testing, high stakes standardized testing, LAUSD, VAM

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

Reply to Sandy Banks’ “Deasy’s Exit Leaves Unfinished Work At LAUSD”

October 24, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Barbara Landis is a native southern Californian (3rd generation — her grandparents came to LA before 1900), and the parent of three children who attended elementary, middle and high school in LAUSD. She also teaches in an independent K-12 school in the Valley. Sandy Banks is right. There’s plenty of work, unfinished and never begun at […]

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

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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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