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LAUSD’s Measure EE Highlights the Need For Charter School Oversight

May 23, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

The parcel tax will help provide the funds to give Los Angeles students the schools they deserve. But Charter schools will also get a cut.

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: CCSA, EE, George McKenna, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Mónica García, Nick Melvoin, Parcel Tax, Proposition 13, Public Education, Ref Rodriguez, Scott Schmerelson

Tony Thurmond Feels The Heat

November 4, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

I believe that it’s time to make our public education system in California among the greatest in the nation, and I have a plan to take us there.” – Tony Thurmond Like a lot of other politicians who have been labeled “anti-charter school,” Tony Thurmond has not called for the end of these publicly funded […]

Filed Under: Elections Tagged With: California Charter School Association, CCSA, Marshall Tuck, Privatization, Public Education, Tony Thurmond

Charter Schools Are Failing and Our Democracy Pays the Price

September 28, 2018 by Dr. Rocio Rivas

“The ideals of education, whether men [sic] are taught to teach or plow, to weave or to write, must not be allowed to sink into sordid utilitarianism. Education must keep broad ideals before it, and never forget that it is dealing with Souls and not with Dollars.” 1902, W.E.B. DuBois, educator and civil rights leader. Not […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Los Angeles, Parents, Profiteering, Research Tagged With: charter school super-networks, charter schools, democracy, neo-liberalism, parents, privatization of public education, Public Education, segregation, Students

Second Largest School District Faces Teachers Strike

September 5, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

There is currently an effort to call for a strike that pits adults versus adults when students and their families will bear the brunt of a strike action.“ – LAUSD School Board Having gladly accepted the title of “a gadfly at the school board meetings”, I have a natural tendency to be suspicious of the […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents Tagged With: class size, libraries, magnet schools, Public Education, school nurses, Special Education, teachers strike, Testing

BREAKING: Mixed Messages From Superintendent Deasy In Reply to KPCC Investigative Report on iPad Procurement

August 26, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

In breaking news after the initial revelation that cozy talks between Superintendent Deasy and his upper-level staffers and Apple Corporation/Pearson may have violated open bidding rules, KPCC is now reporting: Deasy seemed to say that the emails unearthed by KPCC address a “pilot” rollout of iPads and not the final $1 billion plan, but the […]

Filed Under: Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: iPads, K-12, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, Public Education, public schools

Why Tenure?

June 27, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

By Alice Mercer, a California teacher. This post originally appeared at her blog Reflections on Teaching and is re-posted with permission. In the aftermath of the initial Vergara decision, there are lots of questions about effects. Having taught in a public school under a turn-around model, where hiring and being retained, was based solely on […]

Filed Under: Educators, Los Angeles, State Education Law Tagged With: David Welch, Public Education, teacher tenure, Teacher workplace issues, Vergara v. California

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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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