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Suzan Gragg Denby

http://www.wrightslaw.com/ - 0 views

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Ed leadership law policy sped advocacy dams 707

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  • Suzan Gragg Denby on 13 Feb 11
     
    Articles and information for parents, educative and advocates re: Sped law, Ed law & advocacy for students with disabilities
Suzan Gragg Denby

Ed Law Cases - 0 views

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Ed leadership law ADMS707 Federal politics

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  • Suzan Gragg Denby on 13 Feb 11
     
    Online educational law library Links to free online cases
Suzan Gragg Denby

Enrollment Surges at Schools for Homeless Students - 1 views

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Homeless laws federal government

shared by Suzan Gragg Denby on 12 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Suzan Gragg Denby on 12 Apr 11
     
    Sadly, they are everywhere. Thankfully, the McKinney-Vento laws protect them.
Phil Riddle

KIPP Program on the CBS Evening News - 1 views

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KIPP Charters

shared by Phil Riddle on 27 Jan 11 - Cached
  • Phil Riddle on 27 Jan 11
     
    A lot has been made of the success of KIPP students and schools. Their formula doesn't seem be revolutionary (longer hours = greater achievement), but their success relies on charter school laws that allow for their existence and provide for their substanially higher per-pupil costs.
Angela Winston

"The Equitable Powers of the Judge": The Conflict - 1 views

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local level District Court NCLB Winston ADMS707

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  • Angela Winston on 23 Feb 11
     
    Local (US District Court) vs. NCLB legislation (US Dept. of Education): A case study/policy analysis examining how federal law plays out on the local level. A school system in Richmond County, Georgia found difficulty implementing NCLB because of conflict between NCLB and school desegregation policy. This was the cause for the federal-local political disagreement.
Roger Mancastroppa

Wisconsin Progressive/Labor Alliance Gears Up for Major Electoral Test Tomorrow | FDL N... - 0 views

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adms707 Republicans education collective bargaining collective rights policy privatization

shared by Roger Mancastroppa on 04 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Roger Mancastroppa on 04 Apr 11
     
    "Judge Maryann Sumi delayed the implementation of the anti-union law in Wisconsin that would strip most collective bargaining rights from public employees. Sumi is ruling on whether the conference committee for the bill violated state open meetings requirements. In addition, Madison-area unions have filed suit over whether or not the bill passed had fiscal elements, meaning it would require a quorum of state Senators to consider it, which it did not receive. And a third lawsuit, filed late last week, alleges that the legislation is unconstitutional, "infringing on employees' equal protection rights and their rights to freedom of speech and association."
Georggetta Howie

Ed.gov take on Federal Govt Role in Education - 0 views

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laws government education federal

shared by Georggetta Howie on 03 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Georggetta Howie on 03 Feb 11
     
    I just wanted to see what would pop up when I Googled role of federal government in education. At the top of search list was link for ed.gov
Victoria Schnettler

Legislative Information System - 0 views

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ADMS707 education legislation

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  • Victoria Schnettler on 08 Feb 11
     
    This page allows you to search for legislative rulings and cases for a variety of different areas of the law including education bills and lawsuits.
Roger Mancastroppa

WHAT IS GOOD GOVERNANCE? - 0 views

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adms707 politics democracy Reform

shared by Roger Mancastroppa on 28 Jan 11 - Cached
  • Roger Mancastroppa on 28 Jan 11
     
    "Good governance has 8 major characteristics. It is participatory, consensus oriented, accountable, transparent, responsive, effective and efficient, equitable and inclusive and follows the rule of law. It assures that corruption is minimized, the views of minorities are taken into account and that the voices of the most vulnerable in society are heard in decision-making. It is also responsive to the present and future needs of society."
Victoria Schnettler

Code of Virginia - 0 views

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ADMS707 education Code of Virginia

shared by Victoria Schnettler on 08 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Victoria Schnettler on 08 Feb 11
     
    Title 22.1 - Education - State laws regarding education policy.
Jonathan Becker

Hampton School Board vs. Patrick Russo trial scheduled for March - dailypress.com - 3 views

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school board hampton ADMS707

shared by Jonathan Becker on 14 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Jonathan Becker on 14 Feb 11
     
    The Hampton School Board's lawsuit against former superintendent Patrick Russo is back on the court docket. A two-day jury trial has been scheduled for March 21-22 in Hampton Circuit Court. The board is suing Russo for the $102,220 it paid into a retirement account before he resigned in February 2009 to leave for nearby Henrico County Public Schools, where he is still at the helm.
  • Phil Riddle on 14 Feb 11
     
    Dr. Becker, if you had to guess, what do you think will be the result?
  • Jonathan Becker on 15 Feb 11
     
    Hmmm...Philip. I wish I had some insight here. This is a contract issue and the worst grade I got in law school was in Contracts class :-)
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

shared by mirabilecp on 23 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • 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.
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."
REL N

Jack Jennings: Get the Federal Government Out of Education? That Wasn't the Founding Fa... - 0 views

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  • the answer isn't to eliminate federal involvement in education. That would be a wrong-headed move that ignores our country's history and would contribute to the decline of the United States. It's also a battle that has been fought and lost before because the stakes are simply too high.
  • Federal involvement began more than 225 years ago, even before George Washington was president, when Congress passed two laws -- the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 -- to create and maintain public schools in the expanding United States.
  • The specifics of federal land grants were outlined in each of the federal acts for admitting these states.
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  • the achievement gap narrowed between adolescent white and black students. And the percentage of children with disabilities who attended public school rose from only 20 percent in 1970 to 95 percent in 2007.
  • three-fourths of all college student aid comes from federal sources, whether through the tax code, direct grants or subsidized loans.
  • These indirect subsidies of education through the federal tax code total at least $21 billion for post-secondary education, and at least $17 billion for elementary and secondary education. These amounts are almost as significant as the direct grants made by the federal government to support education.
  • "Getting the federal government out of education" would endanger the progress made by -- among others -- children with disabilities, African-American children, and women and girls
  • The achievement gap between U.S. students and their international peers deprived the national economy of as much as $2.3 trillion in 2008, according to the McKinsey Quarterly.
  • How can the country raise academic achievement if 14,000 local school districts are each making their own decisions on most key aspects of education?
  • Over the course of American history, the national government has aimed to better educate the citizenry as a basis for democracy and economic prosperity. Today, our nation must act with greater, not less, unity to improve schools.
  • REL N on 25 Feb 11
     
    Those who can afford to pay for all private K-12 and college expenses for their children may not care if the Federal government is involved in our education system. All the rest of the country needs to take heed and acknowledge the need for continued and expanded federal involvement. Without sounding flippant... do you suppose that those who might be leading the charge to get the Federal government out of education and make draconian cuts in social programs under the guise that tax burdens are too high and individualism trumps social justice are the same millionaires and billionaires who fund the tea party et al.? Sadly, the "regular folk" who are falling for that rhetoric do not recognize that they are paving their own way to..... [let's just say poverty].
Roger Mancastroppa

John Kasich: Ohio Union Bill Likely To Become Law - 0 views

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adms707 union ballot repeal legislation education

shared by Roger Mancastroppa on 01 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Roger Mancastroppa on 01 Apr 11
     
    The Ohio legislation drew pro-labor protesters and tea party activists. The crowd on Tuesday topped more than 8,500. The measure has prompted a visit by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and former Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland has pledged to lead a ballot repeal if the bill passes.
mirabilecp

Court Backs Discipline of Student Over Internet Speech - The School Law Blog - Educatio... - 0 views

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ADMS707 Technology Freedom of Speech Mirabile

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  • mirabilecp on 26 Apr 11
     
    I think that the Courts acted appropriately here in NOT letting the student run for office after her offensive remarks. Nice balance, though, letting her wear the T-shirt.
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