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Marshall Tuck’s ethnocentrism contradicts Californian values

October 22, 2018 by Robert D Skeels

Parents protesting Marshall Tuck for closing language programs. Photo by Ron Gochez.

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 […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Los Angeles, San Francisco, State Education Law Tagged With: ethnic studies, language rights, Marshall Tuck, Tony Thurmond

How fringe-right are business banker Marshall Tuck’s education views?

June 21, 2018 by Robert D Skeels

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 […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: California State Superintendent of Instruction, ethnic studies, language rights, Marshall Tuck, politics, State Superintendent of Public Instruction

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) December General Assembly

November 29, 2016 by Robert D Skeels

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 […]

Filed Under: Educators, Los Angeles, Parents Tagged With: ethnic studies, LAUSD, LCFF, rdsathene, resistance, resistance to privatization, SLASD, struggle

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) May General Assembly

May 14, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD)

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 […]

Filed Under: Educators, Los Angeles, Parents Tagged With: ethnic studies, LAUSD, LCFF, rdsathene, resistance, resistance to privatization, SLASD, struggle

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) March General Assembly

March 16, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD)

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 […]

Filed Under: Educators, Los Angeles, Parents Tagged With: CEJ, ethnic studies, LAUSD, LCFF, rdsathene, resistance, resistance to privatization, SLASD, struggle

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

Why I Support An Ethnic Studies High School Graduation Requirement in LAUSD and SFUSD…And Beyond

December 1, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

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, […]

Filed Under: Bilingual education, Curriculum, Dual language immersion, Educators, LAUSD, Los Angeles, San Francisco, School Boards Tagged With: ethnic studies

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

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) November General Assembly

November 6, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD)

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 […]

Filed Under: Educators, Los Angeles, Parents Tagged With: CEJ, ethnic studies, LAUSD, LCFF, rdsathene, resistance, resistance to privatization, SLASD, 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

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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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