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A Year of Observation on PLAS and Marshall Tuck

May 3, 2017 by K12NN Site Admin

by Cheryl Ortega UTLA Director of Bilingual Education   I became acquainted with Mr. Marshall Tuck in 2008, the first year of the rollout out of PLAS.  As Director of Bilingual Education for UTLA, I had received a call from some teachers at Ritter Elementary School in Watts concerned that their Dual Language Program would […]

Filed Under: Bilingual education, Curriculum, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School Districts, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: PLAS

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

#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

SBAC/CAASPP or PARCC: Question the Tests

June 3, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Pamela Casey Nagler is a longtime Claremont resident, a former student of Claremont public schools and a high school teacher at nearby Montclair High School. She remembers taking one standardized test when she attended Claremont High School – the Ohio Achievement Test – that was essentially an aptitude test to identify an individual’s strengths and […]

Filed Under: Ed Tech, Educators, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Profiteering, Research, The Testing Industry, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: CAASPP, PARCC, SBAC

Catholic Sainthood For Junipero Serra Will Erase Native Americans All Over Again

February 2, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

This guest post comes from Pamela Casey Nagler, who is a teacher in California. This piece is part of a series, Why We Need Ethnic Studies. This is why we need better history courses — more ethnic studies in our high schools.   video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player   The Pope has just announced that […]

Filed Under: Cross-Cultural Comparison, Curriculum, Educators, Ethnic Studies, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Francisco, Students, Voices From the Classroom, Why We Need Ethnic Studies Tagged With: California, Junípero Serra, Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, Pope

Sen. Alexander, No Child Left Behind’s High Stakes Tests Narrow the Curriculum

January 28, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) is now chair of the education committee in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension committee, and has officially opened the door to reauthorization of No Child Left Behind (NCLB, also known as the ESEA, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act). He’s seeking emails and letters talking about testing and accountability […]

Filed Under: Curriculum, Educators, Federal Policy, NCLB, The Testing Industry, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: Elementary and Secondary Education Act, ESEA, Lamar Alexander, NCLB, No Child Left Behind Act

Leave At 3:00 PM? Hardly — Teachers Pay To Be Overworked

January 27, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Guest blogger Susan DuFresne is an experienced teacher in Washington state. (She is not pictured.) This is part of a series called Voices From the Classroom.   A teacher’s workload is impossible. Twenty-four hours is not enough. I worked a 15 1/2 hour day yesterday & the to-do list is still ridiculously long. After teaching […]

Filed Under: Educators, NCLB, Sea-Tac, State Education Law, The Testing Industry, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: High Stakes Standardized Tests, McCleary v Washington, Washington

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

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

Public Education Battles for Mexican American Studies Are A Free Speech and Intellectual Freedom Issue Too

January 9, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Meet writer and professor Tony Diaz and find out why Arizona tried, and will likely fail, to ban Mexican American Studies and other Ethnic Studies classes in public schools. Diaz launched the Librotraficante (book smuggler) movement that pokes and prods the narrow-minded government officials who would really like to banish Latinos and declare their culture […]

Filed Under: Curriculum, Educators, Ethnic Studies, Houston, School Districts, Students, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: ethnic studies, Librotaficante, Mexican American Studies, Tony Diaz

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Federal Policy

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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