posted Aug 8, 2011 10:48 AM by Caroline Piper
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Top-Ed: Thoughts On Public Education - John Affeldt - August 8, 2011
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posted Nov 12, 2010 2:21 PM by Kamaile Maldonado
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updated Nov 12, 2010 3:23 PM
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Top Ed: Thoughts on Public Education - John Fensterwald - November 4, 2010Finish CALPADS; appoint accountability-savvy members to the state board; focus on assessments; listen more to teachers; reform the finance system. That was yesterday’s advice (not to be confused with “so yesterday”) to Jerry Brown on this page from nine leaders in education. Today, an additional dozen voices in education, some of them familiar to readers of this blog, offer advice to the governor-elect. At the end, summarizing their collective wisdom, I offer my own Grand Unified Theory for how Gov.-elect Brown can fix the mess we’re in... |
posted Sep 15, 2010 3:52 PM by Christine Hung
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updated Nov 12, 2010 3:20 PM by Kamaile Maldonado
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Viewpoints: State must be forced to fund educationSacramento Bee - John Affeldt and Giselle Quezada - Sept. 9, 2010
As California students head back to school, they will be boarding a ship sinking
below constitutionally minimum levels of quality and fairness. Once the
envy of the nation with one of the best-funded and highest-performing
school systems, today California is racing to the bottom – 44th of 50 states in per student spending levels and 46th in education spending as a percentage of personal income.... |
posted Jul 20, 2010 3:58 PM by Wynn Hausser
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updated Jul 20, 2010 3:58 PM by Christine Hung
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Two
Education Lawsuits Against the State?
SF Gate- Susan Davis- July 19, 2010
Since Public Advocates filed their lawsuit against the state last
week, several people around town have asked me why there are now two lawsuits
against the state (this new one, called Californians for Quality Education v State of California and the one in filed in
late… |
posted Jul 20, 2010 3:57 PM by Wynn Hausser
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updated Jul 20, 2010 3:57 PM by Christine Hung
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Pupil
data hostage to Sacramento feud
The Bay Citizen- Gerry Shih- July 16, 2010
When
advocacy groups took the state of California to court this week to seek the
restoration of billions of dollars in public education funding, the lawsuit
swept back into the spotlight a glitch-ridden, $200 million digital initiative
that has languished in Sacramento for nearly a decade. |
posted Jul 20, 2010 3:57 PM by Wynn Hausser
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updated Jul 20, 2010 3:57 PM by Christine Hung
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Public
Advocates and Californians for Justice file lawsuit
Tri City Voice- July 16, 2010
A broad coalition of nearly 60 individual parents and students,
nine school districts and three statewide education organizations filed a
lawsuit in May seeking to declare the current education finance system
unconstitutional. That lawsuit, Robles-Wong v. California, demands… |
posted Jul 20, 2010 3:56 PM by Wynn Hausser
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updated Jul 20, 2010 3:58 PM by Christine Hung
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Anybody
up there care about the schools?
California Progress report- Peter Schrag- July
16, 2010
The
milestones keep rushing by in California’s race to the educational bottom. Last
Monday, a group of students and parents, joined by a coalition of civil rights
organizations filed the second major lawsuit in recent weeks charging the state
with failing to meet its constitutional and moral... |
posted Jul 20, 2010 3:56 PM by Wynn Hausser
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updated Jul 20, 2010 3:56 PM by Christine Hung
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posted Jul 20, 2010 3:56 PM by Wynn Hausser
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updated Jul 20, 2010 3:56 PM by Christine Hung
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How
a Lawsuit Is Using YouTube to Save Cal Schools
New America Media- Rupa Dev- July 15, 2010
Editor’s Note: This week, a
coalition of grassroots groups and individuals representing thousands of
low-income students and parents sued the State of California over what they
deem an “unconstitutional school funding system.” What makes this lawsuit, CQE
et at…. |
posted Jul 20, 2010 3:55 PM by Wynn Hausser
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updated Jul 20, 2010 3:55 PM by Christine Hung
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Why
sue California to scrap the school funding system?
California Watch- Corey Johnson- July 14, 2010
In
May, a coalition of grassroots groups threatened to sue California if something
wasn't done to reform how public school education is funded. On Monday, the
Campaign for Quality Education, Californians for Justice, Public Advocates and
the Alliance of Californians for Community… |
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