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Latest on Chester
Upland January 18, 2012
SRC hears
about school violence
by Benjamin Herold on Jan 18 2012 for
the Notebook and WHYY/Newsworks
A new committee of the School
Reform Commission (SRC) attempted Tuesday evening to tackle an old issue –
school violence.
It's
official: Report says Philadelphia
By Kristen A. Graham, Inquirer
Staff Writer, Posted: Wed, Jan. 18, 2012 , 3:01
AM
The facts are sobering, if not
surprising - the Philadelphia
School District
The promises are lofty - more
focus on violence prevention, more transparency concerning violence data,
improved reporting, more and better training.
The PA Legislature has spent hours in hearings
and deliberations on vouchers, charter schools and EITC expansion this session
but not one minute on safe schools or best practices. School choice evangelists propose to take 8%
of the kids out of dangerous schools and leave 92% behind with fewer resources
for counselors, nurses, social workers and safety officers. Vouchers represent a total abdication of
responsibility, not a solution. They
would do nothing to help our kids left behind, our schools or our communities.
A Blueprint for Action – Report
by Philadelphia Blue Ribbon Commission on Safe Schools presented at the School
Reform Commission meeting of January 17, 2012
The
Blue Ribbon Commission was convened in November 2010 as a result
of the citywide concerns about the safety of our schools, commercial areas, and
residential streets, in order to address a surge in youth homicide, school
violence, ethnic intimidation, flash mobs, and assaults on citizens involving Philadelphia
Convened
by the Superintendent of Schools and the Mayor, the BRC’s membership is
comprised of students, teachers, principals, school officials, police, youth
leadership organizations, government leaders, parents, and neighborhood
activists.
The
Commission created three committees to focus on specific issues impacting
school safety: 1. The Safe Schools Audit/School Visit Committee, 2. The Policy
Implementation Committee, and 3. The Attendance, Truancy, and Bullying
Prevention Committee.
Read the Report here: http://www.philasd.org/announcements/BRC-Report.pdf
Our schools are in a world of hurt,
and it's our fault
WHYY
Newsworks Opinion By Chris Satullo January 16, 2012
What are we doing?
The Philadelphia
The Chester-Upland schools are flat
broke. Teachers there are working for free right to keep classrooms open.
Repeat, for free.
And the Catholic school system
announced closings of nearly 50 schools in the Philadelphia
What in the world are we doing?
WHAT WORKS: New program shows the promise and
possibilities for parent engagement
Have you ever taken a
peek into the future? A quick snapshot into tomorrow?
I did recently at a
small elementary school in South San
Francisco
Twenty-nine parents
walked into the school’s multipurpose room to the sound of Pomp
and Circumstance. Families grinned. Children clapped. Moms and dads
marched to the folding chairs in the front of the room: graduates of the PTA School
Smarts Parent
Academy
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
"I don't like to
see a tax increase, but I've got an obligation as a board member to maintain a
quality education," board member Jim Nickel said.
FORBES James Marshall Crotty 12/22/2011 @ 5:56PM |3,223 views
No Educator Left Behind: Pearson, Leading Scorer of Standardized Tests,
Subpoenaed
Publicly
Traded Pearson Education Subpoenaed
The New York Attorney
General’s office launched an investigation this week into whether or not the
education and testing of the state’s school children was sold to the highest
bidder. A cloud of suspicion surrounds the Pearson Foundation,
a nonprofit subsidiary of publicly traded Pearson Education Inc.(NYSE:PSO), the nation’s largest
educational publisher and subject of a previous Crotty
on Forbes column. The Pearson Foundation is being investigated for
potentially lobbying state education officials improperly and footing the bill
for those officials to take trips to numerous international locales.
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