February 10, 2009 • 8:00 pm Comments Off
John Chow has a blog post about a site offering to donate 100% of the proceeds from book sales to the victims of the Australian fires. This is a worth while cause, please read and help if you can.
Read about it here:
Get 5 books for The Price of 1 And Help People Too | John Chow dot Com
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Filed under: Family, In The News , Australia
January 14, 2009 • 10:58 pm Comments Off
With $40 million needing to be cut from the school district budget, the school board has approved cuts of $31 million this week. Part of the cuts include Data and Literacy coaches that work with students that are having trouble keeping on grade level or need extra attention to complete the material to move forward with the needed achievement. Also going are the ITT’s or Instructional Technology Trainers. This takes the district from 43 in the 2007-08 school year to 17 in 08-09 to zero in 09-10.
While we continue to here that the cuts are supposed to not impact the students directly. I don’t see how the above cuts fall into that line. Certain School Board members have been quoted as saying that these cuts are not to be excuses for not continuing to achieve higher or better scores next year, but with all the structure that has already been placed on the teachers in their teaching day, I don’t know where they are going to find the time to add what is being taken away. Reading blocks, writing blocks, mandated 150 minutes of PE a day, lunch, testing, the list of things the teachers have to do is long and barely fits into the 7.5 hour day. Teachers are going to be overwhelmed, scores are going to plummet, they are going to stop using the new technology because they are not getting the continued training, or they don’t have time to call the service desk to get a piece of broken equipment fixed.
Here are some ideas for things to cut:
The energy savings alone add up to $676,000.
Filed under: Education, Educational News, Family, K-12 Education, No Child Left Behind , Budget, Sarasota, Schools
November 29, 2008 • 2:51 pm Comments Off
So, it looks like Mr. Obama isn’t as honest Abe as everyone thought. He has hired back, after the election the adviser that called Mrs. Clinton a ‘monster’.
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time – Blogs from CNN.com
Samantha Power, the Obama foreign policy adviser who stepped down from her post earlier this year after labeling Sen. Hillary Clinton a “monster,” is now working for the president-elect’s transition team.
Okay, so where is the change? Where is are the morals?
Filed under: Family, In The News , Obama, President
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