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Coalition proposes alternative solutions
for Philly schools
Kristen A. Graham, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
POSTED: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 ,
8:26 PM
The solution for
avoiding school closings and continued, painful budget cuts in the Philadelphia School District
A coalition of community
and student groups and the city teachers' union says it has found it: Focus on
improving instruction. Ditch the School Reform Commission. Shift the way
schools think about safety and discipline. Halt charter school growth. And, most important, force Harrisburg
to fund the Philadelphia
School District
The Philadelphia
Community Education Plan, announced Tuesday by the Philadelphia Coalition
Advocating for Public Schools, is a 44-page document developed as an
alternative to recommendations issued this year by the Boston Consulting Group,
which was hired to study the district and recommend ways to radically overhaul
its finances and operations.
Here’s the Philadelphia
Harrisburg School
By on December 17, 2012
at 10:02 PM ,
The Harrisburg School Board and the
state-appointed official overseeing the district’s financial recovery started
their relationship off on a good note tonight.
The board expressed a willingness to work with Gene Veno during its
first public meeting since the state tapped him to develop and implement a
fiscal recovery plan for the district on Dec. 12.
Allentown
Director addresses 'elephant in the room,' asks if applicant has
ties to Gulen Movement.
11:03
p.m. EST, December 18, 2012
For several hours Tuesday, the Allentown School
Board asked a charter school applicant seeking to open a school dedicated to
engineering about curriculum, money, parental support and other such issues. They were normal questions school boards
regularly pepper applicants seeking to open publicly funded independent schools
in their jurisdiction under the 1997 charter school law.
But then Director David Zimmerman said he would
address the "elephant in the room" by asking a question the
consultant for Allentown
Engineering Academy
Charter School
2 western Pa.
Butler County President
Judge Thomas Doerr's Sunday court order affecting the Butler Area School
District and another for police in the South Butler County School District,
both about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, were first reported by the Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review.
Michigan Governor Snyder vetoes concealed
weapons bill
Detriot Free Press by
Kathleen Gray 3:54 PM , December 18, 2012 |
Gov. Rick Snyder vetoed a bill this afternoon
that would have allowed gun owners with extra training to carry their concealed
weapons in schools, day care centers, churches and stadiums.
In his veto letter sent to the legislature
shortly before 4 p.m, Snyder said the bill had a fatal loophole that didn’t
allow for those institutions to opt out of the new legislation and prohibit
weapons from their buildings
School Officials Look Again at Security Measures Once Dismissed
New York Times By MOTOKO RICH
Published: December
18, 2012
In 1999, the year of the
shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado ,
Heath E. Morrison was a middle school principal in Maryland North
Carolina
Since then, Mr. Morrison
has come to view schools as much more dangerous places. In the wake of the Newtown , Conn.
A Connecticut
Parents Across America
Parents Across America grieves with the
community of Newtown , Connecticut
“private vision of public
education…severs the connection between public schools and the civic purposes
for which they were established and that justify the use of taxpayer dollars to
fund them.”
Can Public Education as We Know it Survive?
Americans are now confronted with two radically
different visions of public education. Which vision ultimately prevails will go
a long way toward determining the quality of the education available to future
generations of children.
NSBA
Video (runtime 1:41) Published on Nov 15, 2012
Federal education programs face more than a $4
billion reduction for the 2013-14 school year under sequestration, unless
Congress intervenes. View this video and visit www.nsbac.org to learn more
about sequestration and the effect it would have on our students and schools.
Join your local school board in urging Congress to protect education as an
investment critical to economic stability and American competitiveness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKQrP-2U4ao&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKQrP-2U4ao&feature=player_embedded
Sequestration Impact to Public Education
NSBA Video (runtime 12:44) Published on Dec
16, 2012
The National School Boards Association discusses
the impact to public education from sequestration. Learn more at
www,nsba.org/stopsequestration
Arts as Antidote for
Academic Ills
New York Times By PATRICIA COHEN Published: December 18, 2012
Stationed in front of one of his large
self-portraits, the artist Chuck Close raised his customized wheelchair to
balance on two wheels, seeming to defy the laws of gravity. The chair’s unlikely gymnastics underlined
the points that Mr. Close was making to his audience, 40 seventh and eighth
graders from Bridgeport , Conn.
The message had particular resonance for these
students, and a few educators and parents, who had come by bus on Monday from Roosevelt School
to the Pace Gallery in Chelsea Roosevelt ,
located in a community with high unemployment and crushing poverty, recently
had one of the worst records of any school in the state, with 80 percent of its
seventh graders testing below grade level in reading and math.
The
President’s Committee’s Turnaround Arts initiative
The President’s Committee’s
Turnaround Arts initiative, created in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Education and the White House Domestic Policy Council, is a public-private partnership designed to help
transform some the nation’s lowest performing schools through comprehensive and
integrated arts education. Developed from the recommendations in PCAH’s recent
report Reinvesting in Arts Education:
Winning America’s Future Through Creative Schools, the
Committee’s landmark research publication of May 2011, Turnaround Arts will
test the hypothesis that high-quality and integrated arts education can be an
effective tool to strengthen school reform efforts-boosting academic
achievement and increasing student motivation in schools facing some of the
toughest educational challenges in the country.
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