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A charter school story

April 16, 2019 by Robert D Skeels

Passage from (Knapp v. Palisades Charter High School (2007) 146 Cal.App.4th 708 [53 Cal.Rptr.3d 182].)

Appeared originally as my Twitter thread Researching for a case and came across a personal injury settlement between a charter school corporation in the Central Valley and multiple student plaintiffs for some $6-million+. The amount is on the low side considering the horrific injuries some of the students suffered. It was the typical charter school money-making […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: charter schools, Lawsuits, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene

After Vergara v. California: In Defense of the Teaching Profession

June 13, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

By Kristin T. Vogel, MA Kristin T. Vogel is a Resource Specialist in a suburban Northern California school district, and focuses on social justice issues surrounding class, (dis)ability, mental health, and privilege.   Teaching is a career path that requires specialized training and knowledge, yet there are increasingly more people that feel qualified to tell […]

Filed Under: Los Angeles, School Districts, State Education Law Tagged With: Ed policy, Lawsuits, Vergara v. California

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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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