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Thank you John Oliver for exposing how charter schools steal from children

August 26, 2016 by Robert D Skeels

Say a Big Thank You to John Oliver!

“Fraud is a feature of deregulation, not a bug. When no one is looking, some people steal. Not everyone steals, but many do. That is why Ohio, Florida, Michigan, and California are scamming taxpayers.” — Professor Diane Ravitch The vile poverty pimps and privatization pushers of the lucrative charter school industry were infuriated when John […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: charter schools, Education, John Oliver, neoliberalism, NPE, Privatization, rdsathene, The Network for Public Education

Sunday, November 23, 2014: Two ways to support Ethnic Studies supporter Bennet Kayser!

November 20, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

Re-elect Ethnic Studies Supporter Bennett Kayser to LAUSD Board of Education

Sunday (Nov 23) Echo Parque for Bennett Kayser Precinct Walking https://www.facebook.com/events/556087097859768/ Join me, Robert D. Skeels, as we gather signatures for the Honorable Bennett Kayser to qualify for the ballot. Kayser’s sponsorship was a key factor in the recently passed Ethnic Studies for #LAUSD requirement resolution, and he has been a force for progressive change […]

Filed Under: Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: 90026, Bennett Kayser, Board of education, Education, ethnic studies, LAUSD, rdsathene, School Board, struggle

The Network for Public Education Endorses Historic Ethnic Studies Graduation Requirement for LAUSD

October 14, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

“Remember that consciousness is power” — Kochiyama Yuri The Network for Public Education just released the following in support of ethnicstudiesnow‘s historic resolution to make the successful completion of an A-G approved Ethnic Studies course a high school graduation requirement in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD): As the President and Executive Director of […]

Filed Under: Curriculum, Los Angeles, School Districts Tagged With: California, Education, education policy, Education Politics, ethnic studies, language rights, LAUSD, NPE, rdsathene, resistance, struggle, The Network for Public Education

UTLA Bilingual Education Committee PSA: LAU V. NICHOLS

August 24, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

40th Anniversary of the Supreme Court Decision on Rights of Linguistic Minorities

40th Anniversary of the Supreme Court Decision on Rights of Linguistic Minorities In 1974, the attorneys for Kenny Lau and 1800 Chinese speaking students sued the San Francisco School District on the grounds that these students were not receiving equal access to an education by virtue of their inability to comprehend English. The unanimous decision […]

Filed Under: Bilingual education, Curriculum, Dual language immersion, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Districts, State Education Law, Why We Need Ethnic Studies Tagged With: Bilingual Education, civil rights, dual language immersion, Education, education policy, Education Politics, ELL, English Language Learners, rdsathene

40th Anniversary of Lau v. Nichols Decision: A National Conference on the Rights of Linguistic Minorities

August 18, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

40th Anniversary of Lau v. Nichols Decision

40th Anniversary of Lau v. Nichols Decision: A National Conference on the Rights of Linguistic Minorities

Filed Under: State Education Law Tagged With: Bilingual Education, civil rights, dual language immersion, Education, education policy, Education Politics, ELL, English Language Learners

August 20, 2013 LAUSD School Board Meeting Notes

August 22, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

By Karen Wolfe, LAUSD parent leader. Special to K12NN Parent Watch: Some notes on yesterday’s LA School Board happenings Parent representatives met with the Mayor’s office last week to express our concerns about the appointment of Melendez de Santa Ana. We pointed out that her political views and policy agenda conflict with the parents’ agenda, […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Federal Policy, Los Angeles, NCLB, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Board of education, Education, Los Angeles Unified School District, Parent

Local Control Funding Formula — A View From SoCal

August 7, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

By Deb McCurdy, special to K12NN and reposted with permission. Students throughout California are finally getting some relief.  A few weeks ago, the state legislature reached a compromise on the 2013-2014 budget, which also includes a plan for future K-12 public education funding, and Governor Brown has signed it. The compromise budget provides for about […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Francisco, State Education Law Tagged With: California, Education, Governor Brown, Local Control Funding Formula

Community Schools, An Untapped Resource: A March 18, 2013 Convening

March 26, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

By Deb McCurdy, Special to K12NN On March 18, 2013, public education advocates, administrators, school board members, school administrators, non-profit organizations and philanthropists convened at the California Endowment in downtown Los Angeles. The event followed from a discussion a group of First District CA PTA delegates had with State Senator Carol Liu’s staff on state […]

Filed Under: Educators, Fixes, Innovations, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School Districts, Uncategorized Tagged With: California, California Endowment, Carol Liu, Community school, Community Schools, Education, John Deasy, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District

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

Chicago Teachers Strike: Why I'm On Strike & What I'm Telling My Family and Friends

September 11, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

As the strike makes national news I am finding along with many teachers that many people are weighing in on the strike who really have no idea what is going on and are basing their opinions off a 2 minute news clip. Here are the talking points and explanation I will share with my family. […]

Filed Under: Chicago, Educators, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Better School Day, Budget, Chicago, Education, Evaluation, Fair Contract, Family, Public, Raise, Strike, Teachers

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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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