First published in the LA Progressive * * * Business banker Marshall Tuck is running for California State Superintendent of Public Instruction again. He’s backed by the same ideologically charged billionaires as the last time — several of whom supported reactionary measures like Proposition 8. With nearly unlimited funding, voters will be deluged with Tuck’s […]
How fringe-right are business banker Marshall Tuck’s education views?
How reactionary is Marshall Tuck on education issues? One measure is to compare his views to those of the notoriously right-wing JBS and GOP stalwarts. Here we look at some critical issues facing students, families, and our public schools. Sources: ontheissues.org, marshalltuck.com, jbs.org Remember that Marshall Tuck, like his white supremacist counterparts Tom Horne and […]
Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) December General Assembly
Every month students, parents, and teachers of #StudentsDeserve gather to discuss and plan for the future of educational justice inside and outside our schools in Los Angeles. Considering the political state we are in, now more than ever we know that our grassroots work is important and necessary. For that reason, we invite YOU (students, parents, and teachers) to […]
Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) May General Assembly
Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) General Assembly Thursday, May 21, 2015 4:30-6:30PM St. Marks Lutheran Church 3651 South Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90007 (2 blocks north of the Expo line’s Vermont station) Final General Assembly of the school year. This year we have accomplished so much! Parent Leadership Institutes provided space for parents […]
Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) March General Assembly
Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) General Assembly Thursday, March 19, 2015 4:30-6:30PM St. Marks Lutheran Church 3651 South Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90007 (2 blocks north of the Expo line’s Vermont station) Following an invigorating Parent Institute this past Saturday, parents are full of ideas for how to move our work into the […]
Public Education Battles for Mexican American Studies Are A Free Speech and Intellectual Freedom Issue Too
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 […]
Why I Support An Ethnic Studies High School Graduation Requirement in LAUSD and SFUSD…And Beyond
Cynthia Liu, PhD, is founder and CEO of K-12 News Network. Once upon a time there was a girl who grew up in a remote small town in upstate New York. There were five Asian American families in her town; hers was one. At that time, she knew nothing about transcontinental railroad workers from China, […]
Sunday, November 23, 2014: Two ways to support Ethnic Studies supporter Bennet Kayser!
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 […]
Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) November General Assembly
Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) General Assembly Thursday, November 6, 2014 4:20-6:45PM St. Marks Lutheran Church 3651 South Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90007 (2 blocks north of the Expo line’s Vermont station) The 2014-2015 school year is our time to take concrete action together and change the educational system and bigger systems that […]
The Network for Public Education Endorses Historic Ethnic Studies Graduation Requirement for LAUSD
“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 […]