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No Teachers With Guns, No Police In Schools

by admin

On December 30, 2012, President Obama said he doubted arming school police with guns will prevent future school shootings, but then January 11, 2013′s EdWeek hints that he may yield to local law enforcement officers and communities if it has “bipartisan” support.

While President Barack Obama said recently that he would be skeptical that more guns would be an answer to school safety, his administration is considering paying to add police officers to secure public schools, in part because it may be an area of agreement among lawmakers of all stripes.

In that same EdWeek article, my own Senator, Barbara Boxer, presented such a plan to Vice President Joe Biden:

California Sen. Barbara Boxer, a Democrat, told the Washington Post she presented the plan to 

Public School Districts Fight Back Against Privatization With District-Based, All Public “Schools of Choice”

by cynthia

The myth is that charters “own” innovation. I don’t buy the myth. In the K12NN FAQ Wiki, I’ve gathered too many examples of 100% public schools that are truly public inside and out –  democratic governance mechanisms for the internal and operational affairs of the school and with outward public accountability to taxpayers in all things budgetary — I want to highlight as a Best Practice a Texas school district that’s figured out how to do innovation right.
In Grand Prairie ISD Offer School Choice for Parents and Students, we see a Texas school district that has re-organized itself and created mini-academies and themed/specialty curriculum at the various neighborhood K-12 schools in the district. They lay out their thinking behind concept schools here:

The school of choice model offers parents what they have been asking for — to choose a pathway