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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

Quick Recap of ESEA Reauthorization (The Senate’s Every Child Achieves Act)

July 13, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

A QUICK RECAP The Senate bill consists of the following major provisions: The Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 TITLE I* Lets states develop accountability systems — i.e., tests (rejection of Common Core) Maintains important information for parents, teachers, and communities (“federally required two tests in reading and math per child per year in grades […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Elementary and Secondary Education Act, ESEA, Every Child Achieves Act

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

Fix Education Testing and Accountability to Reauthorize No Child Left Behind

January 22, 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: Educators, Federal Policy, Fixes, NCLB, Parents, The Testing Industry Tagged With: ESEA, High Stakes Standardized Tests, NCLB

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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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