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Emily Vargas

On-campus living may not stay free for charter school's students | The Kennebec Journal... - 0 views

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charter school free living

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  • Good Will-Hinckley organization, which provides housing to students at the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences, is enacting a sliding fee scale for boarding costs, which are currently free to all students and are paid for in part by the school and in part by the state.
  • Legislative bills that could potentially take funding away from charter schools and a bill that would end or reduce state funds for boarding at the Good Will-Hinckley campus played a role in the decision,
  • said the change will not affect all students who wish to live at the school.
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  • We will make it happen, whether we use state funds, money from our private foundation or if we have to raise it through scholarships," he said.
  • To help with the process, the school will use a tuition management company to assess the needs of students,
  • The top priority is to make sure that low-income students from around the state can still attend the school,
  • The school currently boards 27 of its 44 students
  • hey plan to enroll about 75 students in the coming school year and board 37,
  • "It's still up in the air. The number depends on the need of all the students, and the money we have available from the state,"
  • It originally opened with just 19 students in 2011 on the Good Will-Hinckley campus,
  • The residential housing option is available through the school's parent organization, Good Will-Hinckley, which also oversees the L.C. Bates Museum and the Glenn Stratton Learning Center on the campus.
  • Emily Vargas on 04 Nov 13
     
    Good Will-Hinckley organization,
Emily Vargas

National Coalition for the Homeless - 0 views

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  • Families with children are by most accounts among the fastest growing segments of the homeless population
  • an estimated 1.35 million from 600 thousand families will experience homelessness today, while 3.8 million more will live in “precarious housing situations.”
  • of every 200 children in America, 3 will be homeless today and more than double that number will be at risk for homelessness
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  • Residency requirements, guardianship requirements, delays in transfer of school records, lack of transportation, and lack of immunization records often prevent homeless children from enrolling in school
  • Homelessness has a devastating impact on children and youths’ educational opportunities.
  • while 87% of homeless youth are enrolled in school, only 77% attend school regularly.
  • 2007-2008 school year 794,617 homeless children and youth were enrolled in public schools
  • Furthermore, the number does not include all preschool-age children, or any infants and toddlers.
  • 22% lived in shelters, 65% lived with other family members or friends, 7% lived in motels, and 6% lived without shel
  • Homeless families move frequently due to limits to length of shelter stays, search for safe and affordable housing or employment, or to escape abusive family members. Too often, homeless children have to change schools because shelters or other temporary accommodations are not located within their school district. Homeless children and youth frequently transfer schools multiple times in a single year because of these conditions. 
  • According to the Institute for Children and Poverty, homeless children are nine times more likely to repeat a grade, four times more likely to drop out of school, and three times more likely to be placed in special education programs than their housed peers.
  • McKinney Act’s Education of Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY)
  • 1987 in response to reports that only 57% of homeless children were enrolled in school. 
  • Enrollment of homeless students increased by 17% between the 2006-2007 and the 2007-2008 school years. Yet, while almost all states have revised laws and policies to improve access to education for homeless students, significant barriers to enrollment and attendence remain, including guardianship and immunization requirements, transportation problems and school fees. Barriers to success in school were found to include family mobility, poor health, and lack of food, clothing, and school supplies. [7] Many of these issues were addressed in the 2001 reauthor
  • Local educational agency (LEA) sub grants support a variety of activities, including identification and outreach; assistance with school enrollment and placement; transportation assistance; school supplies; coordination among local service providers; before and after school and summer educational programs; and referrals to support services.
  • State educational agency (SEA) funding helps support services such as toll-free hotlines; awareness raising activities for educators and service providers; preparation of educational materials for statewide distribution; technical assistance to schools, service providers, parents, and students; and enrollment assistance.
  • The EHCY Program provides formula grants to state educational agencies to ensure that all homeless children and youth have equal access to the same free and appropriate education, including preschool education, provided to other children and youth
  • ization of the McKinney-Vento Act, but due to a lack in funding, have not been fully addressed.
  • there was a 17% increase in homeless children and youth identified in public schools.
  • With numbers of homeless students nearing 800,000, states failed to provide subgrants to 41% of students identified as homeless
  • Yet, the EHCY program was funded at only $65 million in FY2009, less than one third of the $210 million minimum NAECHY estimates will be required to appropriately serve the rising number of homeless students in America.
  • 43% percent of responding cities reported an increase in the overall number of homeless persons accessing emergency shelter and transitional housing programs during the last year
  • 71% of responding cities reported increases in households with children accessing emergency shelter. 65% of these cities are predicting increases in overall requests for emergency shelter and 100% predict increases in requests for emergency shelter by households with children. Meanwhile, 52% of responding cities already report having to turn people away some or all of the time.
  • . The primary reason for family homelessness is the lack of affordable housing, though poverty, unemployment, low-paying jobs, family disputes, substance abuse, and other factors all play significant roles in family homelessness. Recent statistics indicate that 26% of those suffering from homelessness are considered “severely mentally ill;” 19% are employed; 15% are victims of domestic violence; 13% are physically disabled; 13 are veterans; and 2% are HIV positive.
  • Two subpopulations of children who face increased policy barriers to education are unaccompanied homeless youth and homeless preschoolers. Homeless youth are often prevented from enrolling in and attending school by curfew laws, liability concerns, and legal guardianship requirements. [12] Homeless preschoolers also face difficulty accessing public preschool education. Less than 16% of eligible preschool aged homeless children are enrolled in preschool programs. [13]
  • Congress reauthorized the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act in 2002.  It changed some of the responsibilities of school districts and states, including the requirement for each school district to have a designated homeless education liaison to build awareness in the school and community.  Despite some increase in funding to the initiative in the last few years, the program still lacks proper funding, and, therefore, cannot be adequately implemented on the state and local level.
  • While they are experiencing homelessness, however, it is essential that children remain in school.  School is one of the few stable, secure places in the lives of homeless children and youth -- a place where they can acquire the skills needed to help them escape poverty.
anonymous

10 tips for time management in a multitasking world | Penelope Trunk Blog - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 28 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • keystrokes
    • Emily Vargas
      Emily Vargas on 28 Sep 13
       
      What is a keystroke?
  • probably not answering incoming email while they’re doing it
    • Emily Vargas
      Emily Vargas on 28 Sep 13
       
      That is kind of contradicting. You need to check your email to know what else to do. If you are slow you are not being productive. You are putting everything off.
  • Time management is one of those skills no one teaches you in school but you have to learn.
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  • your ability to handle information and manage your time.
  • message needs more thought, move it to your to-do list.
  • Take action on an email as soon as you read it.
  • multitasking is deadly. But it decreases everyone’s productivity,
  • practicing mindfulness as a way to break the multitasking habit.
  • spends an hour on the most important thing on her to-do list.
  • much more likely to go back to it once you’ve gotten it started.
  • organize the night before
  • “People want a predictable response, not an immediate response.”
  • discover yours by monitoring your productivity over a period of time.
  • keep your best time free for your most important work.
  • break own my projects into chunks
  • actually responds to some things more slowly
  • planning one’s work are also mission-critical tasks.” 
  • Each person has a best time
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 29 Sep 13
       
      If you work best at night, don't work in the morning, you won't be productive. I think this is a very important point. 
Rebecca Lurie

To-Do Lists - Time Management Training from MindTools.com with FREE template! - 0 views

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To-do list

shared by Rebecca Lurie on 29 Sep 13 - Cached
  • prioritizing tasks, you plan the order in which you'll do them, so that you can tell what needs your immediate attention, and what you can leave until later.
  • To-Do Lists are essential if you're going to beat work overload.
  • allocating priorities from A (very important, or very urgent) to F (unimportant, or not at all urgent).
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  • imply work your way through it in order
  • in a sales-type role, a good way to motivate yourself is to keep your To-Do List relatively short, and aim to complete it every day.
  • Or, imagine you're in a sales role and have a long list of people who you need to talk to. You write out a list of everyone you need to call and every client you need to see, and start prioritizing.
David Dunn

Relaxation techniques: Try these steps to reduce stress - MayoClinic.com - 0 views

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  • Relaxation isn't just about peace of mind or enjoying a hobby. Relaxation is a process that decreases the effects of stress on your mind and body.
  • Learning basic relaxation techniques is easy. Relaxation techniques also are often free or low cost, pose little risk and can be done just about anywhere. Explore these simple relaxation techniques and get started on de-stressing your life and improving your health.
Rebecca Lurie

Mindfulness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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mindfulness

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  • is a spiritual or psychological faculty (indriya) that, according to the teaching of the Buddha, is considered to be of great importance in the path to enlightenment.
  • Enlightenment (bodhi) is a state of being in which greed, hatred and delusion (Pali: moha) have been overcome, abandoned and are absent from the mind. Mindfulness, which, among other things, is an attentive awareness of the reality of things (especially of the present moment) is an antidote to delusion and is considered as such a 'power'
Rebecca Lurie

The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness - John D.... - 0 views

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mindfulness

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  • Rebecca Lurie on 02 Oct 13
     
    (look at page 48 first paragraph) 
Rebecca Lurie

Buyer (fashion) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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fashion buyer

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  • gotiate prices and details of delivery with the supplier.
  • can determine the optimum cost price which they should expect to pay.
  • The buyers want to buy the garments at the lowest possible price
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  • iscuss ideas with the merchandising, marketing, and quality control departments.
  • interact frequently with other departments within the company to get advice.
    • Rebecca Lurie
      Rebecca Lurie on 02 Oct 13
       
      Fashion Buyers have to work with almost every department in the fashion industry. 
Emily Vargas

Applying Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to Treatment of Depression - 1 views

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therapy depression

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  • (MBCT) is quickly gaining more popularity in treatment of various disorders including depression
  • improve one’s well-being, mindfulness, emotional regulation, positive mood, and spiritual experience while reducing stress, anxiety, and other problem
  • According to Jon Kabat-Zinn2,
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  • Applications of mindfulness include emotional problems such as stress and anxiety; behavioral problems such as eating, parenting, and addiction; disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, and borderline personality disorders; somatic problems including psoriasis, fibromyalgia, and chronic pain.
  • Mindfulness is not a state of doing but a state of being in which you are fully aware of the present moment and do not evaluate your inner or outer environment.
  • Mindfulness is a state of self-regulation of your attention and the ability to direct it towards breathing, eating, or something else. Curiosity, openness, and acceptance are all part of being mindful.
  • mindfulness can be defined as paying attention in a particular way on purpose in a present moment and non-judgmentally.
  • People who are depressed, often have lots of negative popping thoughts about their past
  • A combination of mindfulness based stress reduction and cognitive therapy has been shown to be very effective for treatment of depression.
  • MBCT was originally developed as a relapse prevention program to help people stay free of depression once they have fully recovered fr
  • om an episode.
  • Other studies have showed that the results achieved by MBCT were equivalent to the results achieved by antidepressants. Moreover, people who have bee trained in MBCT experienced less depression and significantly improved their quality of life.3
Yi Jin

Global Warming's Terrifying New Math | Politics News | Rolling Stone - 0 views

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  • global food prices.
    • Tara Picudella
      Tara Picudella on 18 Oct 13
       
      hits people close to home
  • These companies don't simply exist in a world whose hungers they fulfill – they help create the boundaries of that worl
    • Tara Picudella
      Tara Picudella on 18 Oct 13
       
      is he switching the problem of his essay from global warming towards just blaming oil companies
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 18 Oct 13
       
      kinda seems like it. he just keeps criticizing the oil companies without offering anything else about global warming.
  • Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free. Nobody else gets that break – if you own a restaurant, you have to pay someone to cart away your trash, since piling it in the street would breed rats. But the fossil-fuel industry is different, and for sound historical reasons: Until a quarter-century ago, almost no one knew that CO2 was dangerous. But now that we understand that carbon is heating the planet and acidifying the oceans, its price becomes the central issue.
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  • Once, in recent corporate history, anger forced an industry to make basic changes. That was the campaign in the 1980s demanding divestment from companies doing business in South Africa. It rose first on college campuses and then spread to municipal and state governments; 155 campuses eventually divested, and by the end of the decade, more than 80 cities, 25 states and 19 counties had taken some form of binding economic action against companies connected to the apartheid regime. "The end of apartheid stands as one of the crowning accomplishments of the past century," as Archbishop Desmond Tutu put it, "but we would not have succeeded without the help of international pressure," especially from "the divestment movement of the 1980s."
  • engineering problem" that has "engineering solutions."
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 18 Oct 13
       
      what can engineers do about it that everyone else can't?
  • Kentucky farmers were reporting that corn kernels were "aborting" in record heat
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 18 Oct 13
       
      this sentence hits farmers, and then also everyone else.
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 18 Oct 13
       
      first this targets farmers, and then everyone else.
  • words – it's a greed problem.
    • Yi Jin
      Yi Jin on 18 Oct 13
       
      This is relevant back to chief lyon's interview in which he mentions the greed of ceo's
  • hefty tax on coal and gas and oil, then simply divide up the proceeds, sending everyone in the country a check each month for their share of the added costs of carbon
  • a giant hurricane swamps Manhattan, a megadrought wipes out Midwest agriculture
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 18 Oct 13
       
      yeah this one hit home a little bit, the drought thing.
  • citizens might decide to regulate carbon and stop short of the brink; according to a recent poll, nearly two-thirds of Americans would back an international agreement that cut carbon emissions 90 percent by 2050.
  • have been loath to make the fossil-fuel industry their enemy, respecting its political power and hoping instead to convince these giants that they should turn away from coal, oil and gas and transform themselves more broadly into "energy companies."
  • If you put a price on carbon, through a direct tax or other methods, it would enlist markets in the fight against global warming. Once Exxon has to pay for the damage its carbon is doing to the atmosphere, the price of its products would rise. Consumers would get a strong signal to use less fossil fuel – every time they stopped at the pump, they'd be reminded that you don't need a semimilitary vehicle to go to the grocery store.
  • reduce the profitability of the fossil-fuel industry
kurt stavenhagen

Comments on Why they're wrong | The Economist - 0 views

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  • There have been some real gains in middle-class jobs by giving tax incentives to multinationals to set up headquarters here, but those can go quite quickly if somebody gives a better incentive somewhere else. This is the situation at the peak, when Panama has absorbed tons of capital from Venezuela's collapse, and just finished going through a gigantic real-estate boom. Things are starting to go downhill now - and of course, that means going back to the status quo which is considerably more precarious to the original one before the boom. Basically, there were beneficiaries, but in the end, everything "inneficient" (read: not owned by multinationals or national champions) got axed. In conclusion, the world is being enslaved by multinationals and whoever benefits is at their mercy.
    • kurt stavenhagen
      kurt stavenhagen on 09 Oct 16
       
      Seems truth; multinationals rule.
  • It is hard to imagine, 173 years later, a leading Western newspaper discussing globalization without a mere mention of its ecological implications. Are humans better off in the short term pillaging every last acre of rainforest and sapping every last drip of oil from under the earth rather than living more modestly and sustainably? YES. Is that ordained avariciousness hurtling us towards ecological catastrophe? This newspaper is not qualified to say, and shouldn't stake claims to anything but its unapologetic defence of the dismal science. Critical thinkers should halt abruptly the comforting lullaby that prompts (apparently) the likes of Larry Ellison to say "I used to think, now I read the Economist". They should look up from their chequebooks long enough to see the impact of the ecological warfare that this newspaper has championed for generations. We must improve globalization, but not before we rebalance capitalism. Natural capital MUST be taken into the equation for our species (and particularly those in fragile economies) to have a chance of flourishing beyond the quarterly reports, annual bonuses and election cycles that keep us chained to our myopic greed.
  • I am really surprised the economist allowed such a generic article in favour of free trade to be published.
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