Choosing Democracy: Betsy DeVos Would Dismantle Public Schools

Choosing Democracy: Betsy DeVos Would Dismantle Public Schools: By nominating Betsy DeVos for secretary of education, Donald Trump has shown he is serious about decimating public education. For the last...

Choosing Democracy: Trump and Resistance

Choosing Democracy: Trump and Resistance: Hillary Clinton won the election by 2 million votes, but Donald Trump won the Presidency in the Electoral College.   What’s that you say a...

Choosing Democracy: Sacramento in the Trump House

Choosing Democracy: Sacramento in the Trump House: Sacramento outgoing    first lady Michelle Rhee and   outgoing Mayor Kevin Johnson met with President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday as Rh...

Choosing Democracy: Voters Guide : The California Propositions

Choosing Democracy: Voters Guide : The California Propositions: Sacramento Progressive Alliance Voter Guide with Voting Recommendations in November 2016 Elections, with prominent YES co-endorsers YES on...

Choosing Democracy: Yes On Proposition 58

Choosing Democracy: Yes On Proposition 58

Choosing Democracy: California Comeback: How a Ballot Measure Brought ...

Choosing Democracy: California Comeback: How a Ballot Measure Brought ...: Four years ago California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 30, the emergency ballot measure that Governor Jerry Brown and state ...

Choosing Democracy: How Messed Up is California's Charter School Secto...

Choosing Democracy: How Messed Up is California's Charter School Secto...: Difficult to Believe . Valerie Straus,  Ohio and Utah are known in education circles for having extraordinarily troubled charter s...

Choosing Democracy: Prop 30 Saved the Schools: Proposition 55 is essen...

Choosing Democracy: Prop 30 Saved the Schools: Proposition 55 is essen...: New Report Shows the Significant Impact of Proposition 30 Nearly four years since California voters approved Proposition 30, a new Issue Br...

Choosing Democracy: Teacher Tenure and Due Process Protected

Choosing Democracy: Teacher Tenure and Due Process Protected: California Supreme Court affirms appeal court decision: “Vergara v. CA” is over Statement by CFT president Joshua Pechthalt: August ...

Choosing Democracy: Back to School Shopping Lists - and State Budgets

Choosing Democracy: Back to School Shopping Lists - and State Budgets: Jeff Bryant “You can exhale now,” the headline in  Salon  reassures, because “kids have more money than ever to spend on school stuff...

Choosing Democracy: Voting for Funding Schools _ Proposition 55

Choosing Democracy: Voting for Funding Schools _ Proposition 55: Current budget projections show that unless we maintain the current income tax rates on the wealthiest Californians, our  schools will f...

Choosing Democracy: No New Charter Schools – NAACP Draws Line in the S...

Choosing Democracy: No New Charter Schools – NAACP Draws Line in the S...: No New Charter Schools – NAACP Draws Line in the Sand An important development. This is particularly relevant given Sacramento outg...

Choosing Democracy: Trump's Dystopia

Choosing Democracy: Trump's Dystopia: Trump's Dystopia : Trump’s dark warnings and grandiose pledges that he alone can save the troubled nation sound an ominously authoritar...

Chicano History Will be in the California Text Boo...

Choosing Democracy: Chicano History Will be in the California Text Boo...: By Duane Campbell History and social science textbooks in public schools in California and most of the nation are racist, class-biased, ...

antiracismdsa: We Won ! Chicano History Will be in the California...

antiracismdsa: We Won ! Chicano History Will be in the California...: By Duane Campbell History and social science textbooks in public schools in California and most of the nation are racist, class-biase...

Choosing Democracy: Extension of Education Tax Initiative on the Ballo...

Choosing Democracy: Extension of Education Tax Initiative on the Ballo...:  Sacramento, in front of California Middle School, leaders and members of unions and community groups stood before a large group of repo...

Choosing Democracy: Report Cites Equity Gaps in Public Education

Choosing Democracy: Report Cites Equity Gaps in Public Education: New Report Underscores Serious “Equity Gaps” in Public Education https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/06/07/five-eye-ope...

California to Re Write History Books -Include Chic...

Choosing Democracy: California to Re Write History Books -Include Chic...: California to adopt a new guide to Mexican American (Chicano) history, (and everyone else) Cesar Chavez and Duane Campbell 1972 &q...

California to Rewrite History Textbooks - Include ...

antiracismdsa: California to Rewrite History Textbooks - Include ...: Cesar Chavez and Duane Campbell California to adopt a new guide to Mexican American (Chicano) history, (and everyone else) "O...

antiracismdsa: Stop with the Clinton campaign message that Bernie...

antiracismdsa: Stop with the Clinton campaign message that Bernie...: Nation of Change I would like my friends who are campaigning for Hillary to stop telling us all that Bernie should withdraw from the ...

Choosing Democracy: Teachers' Unions Survive Another Attack

Choosing Democracy: Teachers' Unions Survive Another Attack: Teachers and our unions in California, along with the rest of organized labor dodged a bullet (maybe a nuclear missile is a more appropr...

Choosing Democracy: Hypocrisy of Eli Broad, Billionaire and Education ...

Choosing Democracy: Hypocrisy of Eli Broad, Billionaire and Education ...: The Philanthropic Hypocrisy of Eli Broad, Billionaire and Leading Education Reformer http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/18830/eli-...

Choosing Democracy: CTA and CFT organize against Vergara

Choosing Democracy: CTA and CFT organize against Vergara: California Educators Appeal Decision in Meritless Vergara Lawsuit Civil Rights Icon Dolores Huerta Joins Educators and Community Supp...

antiracismdsa: Defend Ethnic Studies at SFSU

antiracismdsa: Defend Ethnic Studies at SFSU

Senate Bills Take Aim at California's Growing Teacher Shortage

Choosing Democracy: Senate Bills Take Aim at California's Growing Teac...: But, they do not deal with the problem of a shortage of Latino teachers created by the actions of many CSU- Campuses as described in the pr...

The Latino Teacher Shortage in the Area Was Created.

Choosing Democracy: The Latino Teacher Shortage in the Area Was Create...: Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil. by Duane Campbell. Prof. Emeritus.  Bilingual/Multicultural Education. CSU-S.  In 2015 after the...

Manager that Created Flint's Water Crisis Is Now Manager of Schools

Choosing Democracy: Manager that Created Flint's Water Crisis Is Now M...: Flint’s water contamination crisis began in April 2014 after Darnell Earley, an unelected emergency manager appointed by Snyder, switched F...

Detroit Teachers Strike Against Appalling, rat inf...

Choosing Democracy: Detroit Teachers Strike Against Appalling, rat inf...: President Obama visited Detroit on January 20th, 2016 to tout the city’s resurgent auto industry, which, after the federal government’s ...

Choosing Democracy: Teacher Unions Under Assault

Choosing Democracy: Teacher Unions Under Assault: On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that asks whether all workers in public sector unions, be they me...