Choosing Democracy

The Economic Crisis, The Budget & The University Be a part of the solution. Panelists: Prof Paul Burke, Co-Chair Sac. Progressive Alli...

Hearing today Sept. 29, 2009, at the Capitol . The 5th. Extraordinary Session. Assembly Committee on Education Chaired by Assemblywoma...

Another view: Test scores aren't best way to judge Sacramento Bee | Page 3E Our new U.S. secretary of education, Arne Duncan, picked ...

Natomas cuts; An earlier post criticized the Sacramento BEE article by Diana Lambert on budget cuts in Natomas Unified School District. I c...

Unions Criticize Obama's School Proposals as 'Bush III' By Nick Anderson Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 25, 2...

The Sacramento Bee has its top story in the Our Region section for Sept. 24, 2009, “Troubled Natomas schools will get county education offi...

Report Card 2009. Funding for California k-12 public education. Senator Pro Tem. Darrell Steinberg. Democratic Legislators D. Re...

Editor Pia Lopez was impressed by the visit of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to Sacramento. I wasn’t. See the comments here: http://w...

September 17, 2009 We're Relying on an Absurd Definition of Achievement Dear Diane, Yes, the ways in which standardized bubble-in tests ...

Great video: Michael Zweig and Bill Fletcher On U.S. Labor Movement Bill Moyers Journal September 18, 2009 http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal...

Posted in Education Week. To the Editor: The national-standards- development timeline of the Council of Chief State School Officers, the Nat...

For all Obama's talk of overhaul, the US has failed to wind in Wall Street With a blank cheque from taxpayers and no real reform the per...

I was fortunate tonight to catch Bill Moyer’s Journal on PBS. Among his guests were Dr. Jim Young Kim. Born in the U.S. and raised in Iowa...

Sam Chaltain Forum for Education and Democracy, National Director Today, as young people across the country head back to school, the rest of...

Letter from the Chair The African American youth in Sacramento are at a state of heightened emergency in relation to their academic pursuit...

Time Magazine wrote a feature on Secretary of Education Duncan. Here is one teacher's response. Dear Editor, Gilbert Cruz's feature ...