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King Us

January 15, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

A former Montgomery County, Md., schools chief backed away, calling L.A. Unified ‘a total mess.’” -Los Angeles Times After the LAUSD spent 15 months without a Superintendent that did not have “interim” in his title, the School Board finally did their job and hired a replacement for John Deasy. The fact that Michelle King is […]

Filed Under: LAUSD Tagged With: David Binkle, LAUSD School Board, LAUSD Superintendent, Michelle King

An Attempt At Engagement Falls Flat

October 25, 2015 by Carl J. Petersen

“The best way to predict the future is to create it” Steve Zimmer and George McKenna made clear where their loyalties lie when they joined Monica Garcia and Ref Rodriguez to block public access to the finalists in the search for a new Superintendent. At the October 13th Board meeting, Monica Ratliff proposed a resolution […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Uncategorized, vet the Supe Tagged With: Board of education, LAUSD Superintendent, Parental Engagement, Steve Zimmer

Reply to Sandy Banks’ “Deasy’s Exit Leaves Unfinished Work At LAUSD”

October 24, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Barbara Landis is a native southern Californian (3rd generation — her grandparents came to LA before 1900), and the parent of three children who attended elementary, middle and high school in LAUSD. She also teaches in an independent K-12 school in the Valley. Sandy Banks is right. There’s plenty of work, unfinished and never begun at […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, Too Good For the LA TImes Tagged With: Broad Superintendent Academy, John Deasy, LAUSD Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District

The Deasy Debacle: Six New Rules for a New Superintendent

October 18, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

By Roberta Eidman, MPH. She is a community member and resident of Los Angeles interested in a healthy public commons and excellent public schools for ALL children. The Deasy era was never really about Public Education. It was never really about the kids, or their parents, or the future of Los Angeles as a cultural […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Ed Tech, Educators, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: iPad, John Deasy, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, LAUSD Superintendent, MiSiS

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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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