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Under Marshall Tuck Jordan HS went five years with under 20% of students scoring proficient for CSU

October 20, 2018 by Robert D Skeels

Under business banker Marshall Tuck Jordan High School Partnership Academy for the Arts went five years without achieving even twenty percent of students scoring proficient on either the mathematics or the English portion of the California State University (CSU) entrance exams. Five years! Jordan High School Partnership Academy for the Arts CSU results: the years […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Los Angeles, School Districts Tagged With: California State Superintendent of Instruction, CSU, Eli Broad, Marshall Tuck, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 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

Marshall Tuck: Last Chance for Big Money Backers to Control LAUSD?

November 1, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Marshall Tuck endorsed discredited and disgraced John Deasy

Guest post by Los Angeles resident and edublogger Understanding Equity.   Dear Friends and Neighbors: Next week, you will have the opportunity to vote for the office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction. This is the first time I have made an appeal of this nature. As a retired teacher working with many other concerned […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Marshall Tuck, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torlakson

Marshall Tuck endorsed discredited and disgraced John Deasy

October 18, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

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Plagued by multiple scandals, missteps, mismanagement, and allegations of possible malfeasance, discredited and disgraced John Deasy resigned in ignominy from the post of Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) Superintendent on October 16, 2014. Marshall Tuck, who failed miserably at both Green Dot Corporate Charters and the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, was among Deasy’s […]

Filed Under: Los Angeles Tagged With: Broad Superintendent Academy, Broad Urban Residency, California, Eli Broad, John Deasy, LAUSD, Marshall Tuck, rdsathene, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torlakson

Why Marshall Tuck, Candidate for State Superintendent of Schools, Is The Wrong Choice

October 14, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

Corporatists Dan Chang and Marshall Tuck

By Cheryl Ortega, Director of Bilingual Education, UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles). Cheryl Ortega taught for 38 years in kindergarten and primary education bilingual programs in LAUSD.  She currently serves on the Board of Directors of UTLA as Director of Bilingual Education.   I became acquainted with Mr. Tuck in 2008, the first year of the […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Educators, Elections, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Bilingual Education, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, Los Angeles, Marshall Tuck, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torlakson

Marshall Tuck run schools SAT scores remained flat, some even declined

August 22, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

Marshall Tuck run schools SAT scores remained flat, and some even declined

“The lowest-performing, based on test scores, is the large Green Dot chain.” — Los Angeles Times Marshall Tuck’s campaign literature claims “Marshall has run two of California’s most innovative school systems, improving… student achievement levels in tough neighborhoods” However, achievement data from the schools he ran at both Green Dot Charter Corporation and Partnership for […]

Filed Under: Elections Tagged With: California, Green Dot Charter School Corporation, Marshall Tuck, PLAS, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools

Dan Chang’s dark money SuperPAC now switches to funding Marshall Tuck

August 15, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

Corporatists Dan Chang and Marshall Tuck

“We have our cake, and are eating it too.” — Eli Broad Dan Chang’s SuperPAC, formed to support erstwhile LAUSD candidate Alex “ALEC” Johnson, is now funding a new astroturf group to get his fellow Broad Urban Residency alum, Marshall Tuck, elected to the California State Superintendent of Public Instruction seat. Using the wonderful astroturf […]

Filed Under: Elections Tagged With: Astroturf, Broad Urban Residency, California, Dan Chang, Election, Eli Broad, Marshall Tuck, rdsathene, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, SuperPAC

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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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