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Supporting Parents and Students

November 11, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

“We stand with our teachers’ union, United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), in calling for a real investment in our neighborhood public schools, so that all students have an equal opportunity.” – Northridge East Neighborhood Council The Northridge East Neighborhood Council (NENC) is one of 99 Neighborhood Councils in the City of Los Angeles. These Councils […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Unionism Tagged With: LAUSD, Parent Activism, Schools Students Deserve, Strike, UTLA

Workshop: let the community drive LCFF/LCAP for Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve

July 16, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD)

Instituto de Padres / Parent Institute Saturday, July 18, 2015 12:00 to 4:00PM 3303 Wilshire Blvd., 8th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90010 [The Education Trust-West] and many of the cited sources in the [20]14-15 ETW/LAUSD Case Study are noted School [R]eformers aligned with Secretary Duncan, the Broad/Gates/Waltons — and the then superintendent John Deasy — […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Activism, LAUSD, LCAP, LCFF, NPIC, Parent Activism, rdsathene, SLASD, struggle

"Won't Back Down": Round-Up Of Reviews Find It Boring, Propaganda-Filled

September 29, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

What’s supposed to be a charming, compelling movie that tugs at heart-strings and delivers the message that teacher’s unions are bad is instead dull, heavy-handed, and uninvolving, according to critics. In this movie, parents and teachers unite, and voila! The result is always and only a charter school. “Won’t Back Down” isn’t passing the low […]

Filed Under: Pittsburgh Tagged With: ALEC, Parent Activism, parent tricker, Trigger, Won't Back Down

March 9, 2011 MOMocrats/K12News Network Blog Talk Radio Show: Guest Leonie Haimson

March 15, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

On MOMocrats’ MOMochat radio show, March 9, 2001: Leonie Haimson of Parents Across America discusses organizing to support public education in the face of extreme budget cuts and anti-child, anti-teacher, anti-union GOP budget proposals.

Filed Under: Federal Policy, Fixes, Los Angeles, New York City, Parents Tagged With: Parent Activism

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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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