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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

Unanswered Questions in the Race for California State Superintendent of Public Instruction

November 1, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

We are largely unable to accept new offers to complete questionnaires” – Marshall Tuck Campaign The California Charter School Association and their allies have provided Marshall Tuck with enough cash to flood the airwaves with misleading ads, but with less than a week to go before the election, a whopping 16% of the electorate are […]

Filed Under: Elections, Uncategorized Tagged With: California, California State Superintendent of Instruction, Marshall Tuck, Tony Thurmond

Marshall Tuck’s racist dog whistle

October 26, 2018 by Robert D Skeels

Marshall Tuck’s racist dog whistle

First published in Schools Matter * * * “Blowing the racist dog whistle in politics is shameful. This disgraceful practice against black candidates unfortunately has a long and shameful history. That this would happen in California in 2018 is deeply disturbing. It appears you have chosen to follow President Trump’s playbook of using lies and […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: Marshall Tuck, Racism, Tony Thurmond

Marshall Tuck’s ethnocentrism contradicts Californian values

October 22, 2018 by Robert D Skeels

Parents protesting Marshall Tuck for closing language programs. Photo by Ron Gochez.

First published in the LA Progressive * * * Business banker Marshall Tuck is running for California State Superintendent of Public Instruction again. He’s backed by the same ideologically charged billionaires as the last time — several of whom supported reactionary measures like Proposition 8. With nearly unlimited funding, voters will be deluged with Tuck’s […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Los Angeles, San Francisco, State Education Law Tagged With: ethnic studies, language rights, Marshall Tuck, Tony Thurmond

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

Marshall Tuck’s Financial Support of Convicted Felon Ref Rodriguez

October 11, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

Rodriguez’s misdeeds…made a mockery of the laws governing elections.” – LA Times Editorial Board By the time the last vote was counted in the 2015 LAUSD School Board election, it was the most expensive school board race in the history of the country. The impending cost to run for the Board District 5 seat was […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: 2018 Elections, Election Fraud, March 2015 elections, Marshall Tuck, Ref Rodriguez, Tony Thurmond

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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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