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REL N

Broken Promises: What the Federal Government Can Do To Improve American Education - Bro... - 0 views

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ADMS707 Federal Conservative

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  • REL N on 07 Feb 11
     
    Ratvitch/Loveless identify 4 principles: (1) fix existing federal programs, (2) bring mandates in line with the revenues required to meet them (3) send federal education money to schools and not to support bureaucracies (4) resist the temptation to regulate curriculum, instruction, teachers etc
Roger Mancastroppa

Federal, State, and Local Roles Supporting Alternative Education - 0 views

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ADMS707 education reform school states federal

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  • Roger Mancastroppa on 21 Feb 11
     
    This paper examines the roles that various levels of government play through legislation, policy, and other initiatives that support quality alternative education program store connect youth to education and the workplace ..It raises issues for policy makers at all levels to consider in facilitating the development of expanded alternative education pathways, which reduce the number of students dropping out of school and provide well-lit reentry points for those who leave school before obtaining a diploma.
Victoria Schnettler

Eurybase - 0 views

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ADMS707 education international Europe governance

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  • Victoria Schnettler on 18 Feb 11
     
    Education systems of all European nations - outlined.
mirabilecp

Supreme Court Declines to Hear NCLB Challenge - The School Law Blog - Education Week - 0 views

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ADMS707 power NCLB governance Mirabile

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  • mirabilecp on 23 Feb 11
     
    I am submitting this because of the "power" at play between Connecticut and the U. S. Supreme Court. Connecticut argues here that states should not have to put out so much cash to meet requirements of NCLB. If I am reading this correctly, the U.S. Supreme Court might have heard the case if the U.S. D.O.E. had actually found Connecticut in violation of NCLB's standards....otherwise, not so interested.
Victoria Schnettler

Why Students in Some Countries Do Better - 2 views

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ADMS707 reform international governance

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  • Victoria Schnettler on 16 Feb 11
     
    READ THIS - to help in understanding the question posed to us this week!
  • REL N on 18 Feb 11
     
    I really appreciated how the authors delineated at what level each of the functions should reside--e.g. they explained that books should be bought at the intermediate level because States are close enough to the schools to understand the unique needs of the local area but far enough away to avoid collusion. It helped to put things in perspective.
REL N

A Board's Eye View : Education Next - 0 views

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ADMS707 Niemeyer Boards reform

shared by REL N on 17 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • “Code of Conduct for School Board Members.” This was intended, wrote the superintendent, in recommending the code, “to set standards for how the Board interacts with itself.” Sounded like sex to me. But the preoccupation with board member behavior was the result of the long-standing tension between the democracy represented by elected officials who oversaw the schools and the professionalism of those hired to run them. The superintendent was definitely attempting to tip the balance in favor of the pros. “We will not attempt to exercise individual authority over the district’s operations, staff, or personnel decisions,” read one of the rules he was proposing for us. Another: “We will not express individual judgments about the performance of the superintendent or staff. . . . We recognize the value of the chain of command. When approached by staff, constituents or the public, we will channel all inquiries to the administrator.” I e-mailed the superintendent, “Is this a joke?” He called and laughed lamely.
    • REL N
      REL N on 17 Feb 11
       
      "... the preoccupation with board member behavior was the result of the long-standing tension between the democracy represented by elected officials who oversaw the schools and the professionalism of those hired to run them."
  • “We should let people know we are looking for quality, of course, but not to the point of advertising outside official channels.”
  • the board never reviewed other major expenditures, such as the installation of a new computer system.
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  • I asked the superintendent how a new asphalt parking lot was installed at the Greenport School without board approval–or even a bid or a notice or a need. He informed me that a bid wasn’t necessary for a job worth less than $10,000.
  • no clarification of what any of this meant–or cost. Don’t ask. “Mandated” was the knowing word from veteran board members.
  • almost 16 percent of the children in the school district were disabled, almost double the national average.
  • more than 350, were either “emotionally disturbed,” “learning disabled,” or “speech impaired.” These were the kind of catchall categories that allowed a district to dispose of many problem children–in Hudson those children were mostly black–with expensive baby-sitting.
  • over the next several months as I learned that the district had been running a deficit for several years. In fact, the state comptroller’s office, which oversees the fiscal integrity of all state and local government agencies, had conducted its own audit and found the same thing: “overexpenditure of budgetary appropriations and the overestimation of revenues.” Money was being moved around, from one fund to another, which was also against the rules, the comptroller noted. And when auditors had asked for records, they couldn’t be found.
  • the school board was not where the biggest battles would be won or lost.
  • The teacher union president, normally a regular presence at school board meetings, stopped coming so that he wouldn’t have to answer my questions about what was being done to improve things that his teachers controlled. (He had already stopped responding to my phone calls and letters.)
  • the debate was as much cultural–and racial–as educational,
    • REL N
      REL N on 17 Feb 11
       
      The author was frustrated that the board refused to discuss the academic mediocrity in the schools and then he realized that "the debate was as much cultural-and racial-as educational,...."
  • “Mandates” and laws sprouted acres of explanatory weeds–most of them unnecessary. No one ever read the original “mandate.”
  • no one seemed to know why the “Parent/Family/Community Involvement Policy” was necessary, but it was assumed that it was required by some Oz-like authority, passed through the policy-writing machinery at some school board association office, and sent to us for our “approval.”
  • No one else on the board expressed any hint of having read it. And I was beginning to discern a pattern: the more written, the less understood.
  • REL N on 17 Feb 11
     
    A concerned parent joined the local school board in hopes of improving the academics. After 6 frustrating months he resigned from the board believing that "the school board was not where the biggest battles would be won or lost."
Georggetta Howie

NCLB Revisited - 1 views

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ADMS707 education achievement gap NCLB

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  • Georggetta Howie on 24 Feb 11
     
    The former US Secetary of Education attempts to expose how the federal government engagement should have looked like.
Victoria Schnettler

Obama Still Increasing Education Spending in New Budget - 0 views

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ADMS707 federal Obama spending education

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  • Victoria Schnettler on 16 Feb 11
     
    Seems Obama is serious about education even though the government is threatening a shut down over budgetary issues.
Tara McDaniel

House Floats Plan to Keep Government Running, Scrap K-12 Programs - 1 views

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ADMS707 education politics

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  • Tara McDaniel on 04 Mar 11
     
    Cut literacy and sped programs...let's all get excited!
  • Victoria Schnettler on 04 Mar 11
     
    makes me ill.
Roger Mancastroppa

A Primer on Class Struggle | Common Dreams - 0 views

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adms707 education policy government

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  • Roger Mancastroppa on 01 Apr 11
     
    "Class struggle goes on in other realms. In goes on in K-12 education, for example, when business tries to influence what students are taught about everything from nutrition to the virtues of free enterprise; when U.S. labor history is excluded from the required curriculum; and when teachers' unions are blamed for problems of student achievement that are in fact consequences of the maldistribution of income and wealth in U.S. society. It goes on in higher education when corporations lavish funds on commercially viable research; when capitalist-backed pundits attack professors for teaching students to think critically about capitalism; and when they give money in exchange for putting their names on buildings and schools. Class struggle also goes on in higher education when pro-capitalist business schools are exempted from criticism for being ideological and free-market economists are lauded as objective scientists."
Suzan Gragg Denby

Enrollment Surges at Schools for Homeless Students - 1 views

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Homeless laws federal government

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  • Suzan Gragg Denby on 12 Apr 11
     
    Sadly, they are everywhere. Thankfully, the McKinney-Vento laws protect them.
Tara McDaniel

21st Century Community Learning Center Grant - 1 views

www.doe.virginia.gov/...mar29.shtml

adms707 education

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  • Tara McDaniel on 02 Apr 11
     
    The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is inviting school divisions, nonprofits, local government agencies, faith-based organizations, colleges and universities, and for-profit corporations to apply for 21st Century Community Learning Centers grants
Roger Mancastroppa

jcsb.slu.edu/repec/slu/wilsonbe0801.pdf - 0 views

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adms707 policy government

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  • Roger Mancastroppa on 02 Apr 11
     
    An empirical exploring the relationship between special interest groups and policy volatility.
REL N

Few back Quinn's consolidation push | school, local, consolidation - Jacksonville Illin... - 0 views

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NIemeyer ADMS707 Governance School Board Restructuring

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  • Ganson said each of the five local elementary districts have different costs, different debt loads and different needs. There would have to be sweeping agreements before consolidation could ever move forward
    • REL N
      REL N on 07 Apr 11
       
      Different needs, different debt loads... could this be "code" for something else?! This sounds a little like "separate but equal"--although it may not be predicated solely on race--or the apartheid that Kozol describes in Shame of the Nation.
  • Koch said the Illinois State Board of Education has always had the power to step in and take over failing schools. He said that power also includes the ability to dissolve a local school district. Koch said the state board will continue to "focus on incentives" to consolidation.
  • "If (school consolidation) makes sense in a community and a community is supportive of it, it needs to be a community decision. I don't think as a General Assembly we should be making and mandating school consolidation," Roth said.
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  • "There are a lot of local issues, nuances really, that would have to be worked out," Ganson said, "if the local districts were to come together."
  • Quinn first proposed the idea of required consolidation during his budget speech in February. Quinn said Illinois has too many school districts, and too many highly paid superintendents.
  • REL N on 07 Apr 11
     
    So the school boards and their constituents know that consolidation would reduce costs and the people don't want to pay higher taxes... yet there is reluctance to consolidate small districts (those with approx 500 students) because of unique needs (hmmm is this "code" for something?) and because the constituencies don't like the idea of a state mandate. So, let's see... whose interests are they protecting?
REL N

Tea Partiers Playing a Role in Some School Board Races - 0 views

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ADMS707 Niemeyer Governance School Board

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  • REL N on 06 Apr 11
     
    Tea party candidates are getting on the ballots for local elections.
Roger Mancastroppa

WAGE-LED GROWTH - 0 views

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adms707 economics justice liberation policy government

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  • Roger Mancastroppa on 21 Apr 11
     
    Hahnel is considered a radical in economic thought, but his ideas are founded in economic justice and liberation.
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