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A BAD PENNY ALWAYS TURNS UP: THE CURIOUS CASE OF PENNY SCHWINN'S WITHDRAWAL AND THE MAGA SENATE STANDOFF - A* BAD PENNY ALWAYS TURNS UP* *THE CURIOUS CASE OF PENNY SCHWINN'S WITHDRAWAL AND THE MAGA SENATE STANDOFF* Well, folks, it seems the education world ha...1 minute ago
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Seattle PAC Endorses Song But Why? - And now a whole Pandora's box of issues has opened for one Seattle board race but could spill over into all of them. Before I dive in, point of personal p...2 hours ago
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Lessons from the Future (of Learning): What Wimbledon Can Teach Us About Who We Are (& Who We're Becoming) - Lessons from the Future (of Learning): What Wimbledon Can Teach Us About Who We Are (& Who We're Becoming) Yesterday, as Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz ...3 hours ago
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Trigger warnings fall flat, but safe spaces build trust in the classroom - A new study found that being told they were in a ‘safe space’ made students feel more comfortable, trusting, and positive toward the person delivering t...3 hours ago
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New York's Jews are voting for Mamdani. I'd like to think my grandpa Louis would be glad. - In the early days of the last century my grandfather, Louis Klonsky, was a rabbi in a working class neighborhood of Brooklyn on the border between Brownsvi...5 hours ago
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The Bonus, the Bribe, and the Brilliant Mind - “I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that on...5 hours ago
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Texas: The Hoax of Charter Schools - This article appeared in The Dallas Weekly. The Charter Trap: How Texas’s Approval System Fuels Inequity in Public Education This feature investigates how ...5 hours ago
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An Invention With a Thousand Steps - *This is your last chance to join us for Teacher Tom's Play-Based Learning Summer Camp (see below). Registration closes tonight!* *The opposite of play i...7 hours ago
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The Idea Fairies: When Help Hurts and Allyship Misses the Mark - You’ve met them. Maybe in a meeting. Maybe in your inbox. Maybe at a conference. Maybe at a community event where they float in with “a great idea,” someth...8 hours ago
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Uncertainty in School Reform: The Untold Story - Listen to Michael Mann, a climatolgist at Penn State University who spoke about the science behind global warming and rising sea levels. Any honest assessm...12 hours ago
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Tipton defends OHP plan to redirect troopers from metros to rural areas - [image: Oklahoma Highway Patrol metro areas]Politicians and law enforcement leaders in Tulsa and the Oklahoma City metro area have expressed irritation a...15 hours ago
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CA to Receive $1B in Previously Impounded Ed Funds - State Superintendent Tony Thurmond announces: California to receive nearly $1 billion in previously impounded federal education funds.19 hours ago
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Gaza is on the brink of a catastrophic man-made famine. - Starvation is already widespread; one in three people are going days at a time without food, and children are dying daily of hunger-related causes. A...1 day ago
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VIJAY PRASHAD on Under the Tree - Episode #134: Trapped in Reality, Walking Toward Freedom with Vijay Prashad1 day ago
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A summary of Parent data privacy rights under NY state law - You can access this summary here or below. Important to note that the brief Parent Bill of Rights offered by the state and posted by DOE omits many of the ...1 day ago
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Who Counts as American? The Constitutional Crisis at the Maternity Ward - Trump’s Executive Order 14160 rewrites the 14th Amendment – targeting babies and redefining birthright citizenship1 day ago
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July’s Parent Engagement Resources - Want to Reach Parents? Try a Podcast is from Ed Week. How One District Uses Tech Nights to Bring Families Into Learning is from Ed Week. Using Digital Medi...2 days ago
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Ghislaine Maxwell Is Not a Victim. She Is a Sexual Predator. - Ghislaine Maxwell is not a victim. She is a sexual predator who for at least a decade trafficked minor females, chiefly for financier Jeffrey Epstein, but ...2 days ago
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Education Funds Released - On Friday, July 25, the Trump administration announced it was releasing funds for education that it had been illegally withholding from schools and stude...2 days ago
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A “Moment of Reckoning” or Just More Empty Hysteria? - I’ve been more or less off the grid for the past two weeks, vacationing in Alaska and determined not to let the repellent Epstein Saga or other assorted tr...3 days ago
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Christian Nationalism and Education - By Thomas Ultican 7/28/2025 Since 2024, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas have passed laws requiring ten commandment posters in all classrooms. These kinds of ...4 days ago
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Private School Coupons for Wealthy Families Create AZ Budget Shortfall - Universal school vouchers in Arizona turned into a rich get richer scheme4 days ago
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Weekend Quotables - U of Chicago bows to Trump pressure. But cutting liberal arts isn’t streamlining education—it’s amputating its conscience.4 days ago
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Washington Post: There is no literacy crisis in the U.S. Here’s what’s really happening - [Header Photo by Iana Dmytrenko on Unsplash] Thomas, P.L. (2025, July 28). There is no literacy crisis in the U.S. Here’s what’s really happening. The Wash...4 days ago
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AI Literacy for Preschoolers? The Frightening Redefining of Childhood - President Trump’s goal to make artificial intelligence (AI) accessible to students in grades K-12 raises far-reaching concerns. Here, I would like to dis...4 days ago
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This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Ed Policy Issues - Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in seeing all my “Best” lists related to educatio...4 days ago
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AFT, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Public School Guinea Pigs - In 2023 the AFL-CIO signed an agreement with Microsoft that both parties hoped would benefit their respective organizations. The sixty unions that compri...5 days ago
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In the Name of Dismantling Public Schools, Let Us Pray - For the past 24 months, the Florida State Board of Education has begun its monthly meetings with an...5 days ago
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AZ: Families Are Banking Taxpayer-Funded Voucher Money - Arizona continues to be demonstrate how taxpayer-funded school vouchers actually work. Spoiler alert: it is not to rescue poor students from failing scho...5 days ago
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LACOE Charter School Oversight Is Broken—And It's About to Get Worse - Los Angeles County loses an advocate for public education as Supervisor Janice Hahn does not reappoint Betty Forrester to the LACOE Board. Read the artic...6 days ago
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EXTRA: Trump Administration Will Release Remaining Dollars Held Back on July 1 from Public Schools - Today’s post is an update. Yesterday this blog traced what has happened since the Trump administration refused to send $6.8 billion to U.S. public schools...6 days ago
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Please consider the following - first, from the FBI and DOJ after the examination of the Epstein file, earlier this month There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmai...6 days ago
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Charter School Reckoning: Decline, Disillusionment and Cost - Part I: Decline, the first installment of a three-part report, Charter School Reckoning, presents sobering findings on the stagnation, retrenchment, and...1 week ago
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Revisiting Deceitful Claims about School Funding and Outcomes (a thread) - I’ve had enough. This has to stop. I’ve explained on at least a few occasions that there exists a cottage industry for whom their bread and butter is telli...1 week ago
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What Will Todd Blanche Discuss with Ghislaine Maxwell? One Guess. - Todd Blanche was Donald Trump's personal lawyer in his criminal trial in New York City.1 week ago
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These fascists are proud of being that way. - The Chilling Rise of the Far Right You’re Not Ready For1 week ago
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Getting Beyond Our Discomfort Zones - I have a story to tell about comfort zones. In late June, the High School for Environmental Studies invited me to be their special guest ... Read More T...1 week ago
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Getting Beyond Our Discomfort Zones - I have a story to tell about comfort zones. In late June, the High School for Environmental Studies invited me to be their special guest ... Read More T...1 week ago
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Appoquinimink Under Special Investigation By State Auditor’s Office - Delaware State Auditor Lydia York announced this morning that the Appoquinimink School District is under investigation by the Auditor of Accounts office. T...2 weeks ago
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The Problem with Oligarchy: Global Voices Expose Bill Gates and the Billionaire Power Grab - From Classrooms to Clinics to Croplands, Bill Gates is Leading a Global Assault on the Common Good2 weeks ago
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Chuck Feeney died on October 9, 2023, at the age of 92. I wrote this in 2017 - Billionaire Charles Feeney has finally completed what he set out to do: He has given away his fortune. In all, he’s donated $8 billion, keeping only about...2 weeks ago
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The 8 Gifts of Christmas in July: ✨FREE✨ Baseball Romance, a Cover Reveal & more - A few book & publishing updates... plus an All-Star week baseball freebie!2 weeks ago
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Organizándonos para afrontar la crueldad - Pronto, cada uno de nosotros tendrá su propia historia que contar sobre un hospital que cerró o un ser querido que falleció, se enfermó, pasó hambre o se v...3 weeks ago
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Analyzing UFT election results – from 2022 - JD2718 blog posts from May and June 2022. Post-UFT election for the last two decades I have done some analysis of the numbers. I am getting ready to start ...5 weeks ago
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Honoring Commissioner Betty Rosa at our Skinny Award Dinner - Our Skinny Award Dinner honoring Commissioner Betty Rosa on June 18 was a tremendous success! So many of her admirers attended to enjoy the company of o...5 weeks ago
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Alert: Urge your Senators to eliminate the ban on regulating AI from the budget bill! - There are many damaging aspects of the budget bill , but one that has received inadequate attention is a provision passed by the House that would impose a ...1 month ago
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New “Teach Truth” Website & Study Guide: Launching TeachTruthBook.com on 5th Annual #TeachTruth National Day of Action! - I’m excited to announce the launch of a new website — TeachTruthBook.com — where you can now access the free study guide for my book, Teach Truth: The Stru...1 month ago
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McGrath and Kaminsky: Key Names in the School Policy Debate - The landscape of American school policy is no longer shaped only behind closed doors. It’s debated in town halls, on social media, and through public prote...1 month ago
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"Didn't do *that*," part 1: new Schofield case developments reveal crucial 10th Circuit/Ledger lie - The record is clear. Jeremy Scott confessed at least 40 times in a 2017 hearing. He never recanted. The Ledger must retract its lie to force Judge Kevin Ab...2 months ago
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Achieve 3000 Answers Key (Updated 2023) - Are you on the hunt for the most recent Achieve 3000 answers for the year 2023? Your search is over! ... Read more3 months ago
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Il Papa è Morto - Francis brought a distinct pastoral outlook to his papacy. A simple man, he lived in a small apartment in the guesthouse. He sought to make the church acce...3 months ago
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Kemenangan Member Birutoto Main PG Soft Speed Winner - Kemenangan Member Birutoto Main PG Soft Speed Winner Birutoto – Situs Slot Gacor Terpercaya The post Kemenangan Member Birutoto Main PG Soft Speed Winner...3 months ago
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Trump plays Putin’s Playbook - Recently Aleksander Dugin was interviewed on CNN, last week, and he stated that he believes Trump is closer ideologically to President Putin than to Washin...3 months ago
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Mike Shulman the ARISE UFT Judenrat - I was surprised to learn that Mike Shulman has aligned himself with ARISE. I previously supported him, advocating that the Castle Doctrine could have bee...4 months ago
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How Do We Fight Trump? - Dear Friends, I don’t know when and why it hit me. But I suddenly realized how serious Trump is about changing the country into something that horrifies. I...4 months ago
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Can Students Expect a Relevant Education to be Delivered by Irrelevant Educators? - As a veteran teacher of forty years in the classroom, let me be clear, teachers are not completely at fault for becoming irrelevant in their profession. It...4 months ago
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The US Department of Education Should not be Eliminated. Still, it must be reformed. - If you don’t have an attention span that lasts long enough to learn what I’m teaching in this post, start with the conclusion first. Then if you want to re...5 months ago
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Who is the new CEO of Teach For America? - From 1990 until 2013, the CEO of TFA was the founder, Wendy Kopp. Under her leadership the program grew from a small organization that struggled to make pa...6 months ago
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Site Index - Updated December 31, 2024 - When I was teaching, I got tired of hearing how bad American educators were. *My Promise * WHEN I STARTED BLOGGING IN 2011, I said I planned to speak ...7 months ago
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Malcolm & John David Washington Talk NFL, Christopher Nolan & ‘The Piano Lesson’ - 'The Washington brothers built their careers apart—until an irresistible project drew them together. In The *Piano Lesson*, they tackle a father’s thorny...8 months ago
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“I’m Done With Him; He’s A Douchebag” …And Other Tales From Distant Doors And Stoops - The Democratic Party has been joining with thousands of allied groups working feverishly to hold off TFG’s fever-dream. I’ve long… The post “I’m Done Wit...8 months ago
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Number 18 — A barely-hanging-on Blogoversary - Blogoversary #18 SEPTEMBER 14, 2006 I started this blog while I was still teaching, in 2006. I had just begun my 31st year as an educator. Just like in pre...10 months ago
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Student "Growth" Measures Are STILL Biased - This caught my attention: New Jersey school districts may soon be evaluated differently, *with a greater emphasis on student growth* as compared to stud...11 months ago
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AIN’T IT AWFUL - As the terrible feelings of dread and angst spread across the world the great majority of the American people feel powerless before the onslaught of those ...1 year ago
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Did Darryl Willie lie or interfere in the whistleblower investgation? Why not both? - Willie said below to Action News Jax [image: image.png] It's troubling for quite a few reasons. First he is saying the board knew about the complaint an...1 year ago
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What Country Has The Longest School Day? A Comprehensive Guide - In today’s fast-paced world, education plays a crucial role in shaping the future of individuals and nations...1 year ago
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Could This Be Gadfly’s End? Top 12 Articles From 2023 Read By Fewer Than Ever - After 9 years of pounding my head against the wall - well, it seems like the wall is winning.1 year ago
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Redesigning School Governance: Beyond Mayoral Control - From time to time the legislature passes a bill with a sunset provision, unless the law is reauthorized by a specific date the law reverts to the law it re...1 year ago
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20 Best Mph Programs In New York, NY (2024 Updated) - 20 Best Mph Programs In New York, NY 1. Pace University Rating: (4.2 ) Address: One Pace Plaza, New York, NY 10038... The post 20 Best Mph Programs In...1 year ago
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POSTPONED: Florida’s Impact on Social Studies - POSTPONED: discussion with Florida and DC educators and advocates on the impact of Florida's new laws Continue reading1 year ago
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Vote NO on the UFT Contract. Here is Why: - The best reason to vote no on this contract is this: UFT Unity* lied* to us in 2018. They misrepresented that contract. It was predicated on deals we wer...2 years ago
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Testimony to the CPS Truancy Task Force - I prepared testimony for one of two public hearings held by the Chicago Public Schools Truancy Task Force, a body mandated by state legislation. The meetin...2 years ago
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Tennis Memories from a Time When Racism and Anti-Semitism Still Prevailed - I learned tennis at a public park in Brooklyn- Lincoln Terrace- where the teaching pro was a mailman named Phil Rubell. Almost all the kids who took lesson...2 years ago
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There Is A Teacher Shortage.Not. - THERE IS A TEACHER SHORTAGE. And just to be sure you understand, it’s not that teachers don’t want to teach. It’s not that there aren’t enough teachers cer...2 years ago
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Reason #1 to pick Dr. Grace over Mr. Walters: The future we’ve already seen - In 2014, Oklahoma voters corrected the mistake we made in 2010. In 2022, let’s not make the mistake in the first place. Elect Dr. April Grace instead. She ...2 years ago
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Want to know the condition of a Philly school building? New map to help. - [image: Two students walk by a Philadelphia school building.] Aging infrastructure has been an issue for Philadelphia schools for years. A new interactive...3 years ago
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STREET LIFE - My mom told me, “You should treat all people equally, but don’t bring a “colored” into the house.” I believed … Continue reading →3 years ago
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Schools Matter: Reflecting on Green Dot’s Disastrous Locke Takeover - *“Green Dot came and made it into more of a jail.” — Chris* My history of opposing the Green Dot Charter School Corporation back when I was an activist i...3 years ago
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Book Banning Turns to Dick and Jane - Breaking News: Dateline February 4, 2022 - Parents in Dimwitty, Alabama have asked the Dimwitty Board of Education to ban the children's primer *Fun with...3 years ago
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Have You Heard Has a New Website - TweetHave You Heard has a new website. Visit us at www.haveyouheardpodcast.com to find our latest episodes and our entire archive. And be sure to check out...3 years ago
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Follow me at Substack - I've moved. Follow me at Substack I'm now posting regularly at Substack. You can subscribe for free to my new Edu/Pol blog at michaelklonsky.substack.com ...3 years ago
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Milwaukee Bradley Foundation at Center of Attacks on U.S. Voting Rights - The Big Money Behind the Big Lie Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined to win...3 years ago
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Milwaukee Bradley Foundation at Center of Attacks on U.S. Voting Rights - The Big Money Behind the Big Lie Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined to win...3 years ago
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Aspiring Teachers Get New Help Paying For College - [image: colorful classroom pattern] *; Credit: shuoshu/Getty Images* Cory Turner | NPR New rules kick in today that will help aspiring teachers pay for c...4 years ago
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Major victory over a corporate charter school chain and their trade association - Original post at Robert’s page on Medium. On Tuesday, March 23, 2021, I got my second big win in court against a charter school corporation. It was also a ...4 years ago
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Tips Akses Situs Judi Qq Tanpa Perlu Takut Nawala - Kegiatan berjudi slot melalui situs judi qq online, sekarang sudah dilakukan oleh banyak penjudi Indonesia. Tentu, Kamu yang sedang membaca artikel ini a...4 years ago
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The Threat of Integration - I have lived in the same house in the Miracle Mile section of Los Angeles for over 30 years, where up until now I have had little or no interaction with th...4 years ago
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New Teacher Evaluation Report Released by the Network for Public Education - A new report on current teacher evaluation systems throughout the US was just released by the Network for Public Education. The report is titled, “Teachers...4 years ago
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www.job-applications.com - https://www.job-applications.com/bed-bath-and-beyond-job-application/4 years ago
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Teacher Creates National Database Tracking COVID-19 Outbreaks in Schools - Kansas educator Alisha Morris's online coronavirus news-tracker goes viral, now hosted on a new NEA website.4 years ago
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Correction for July 10th Post on School District Audit - On July 10, 2020 we published a post “School District Caught Manipulating Attendance Records to Get More Money” which incorrectly cited Valley Park School ...5 years ago
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We fight for a democracy worthy of us all! - The nation stands at a crossroads, said NEA President Lily Eskelsen García in her final keynote address to the 2020 NEA Representative Assembly and it’s up...5 years ago
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Giving Private Schools Federal Emergency Funds Slated for Low-income Students Will Shortchange At-risk Kids - Low-income Seattle students began to pick up bagged lunches in March after their school closed. Karen Ducey/Getty Images Derek W. Black, University of Sout...5 years ago
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The Passing Of Chaz 1951-2020 Age 69 - I am the son of Chaz and like to inform you that he passed away this afternoon from the COVID virus. My father passed in peace beside his loved ones. We ar...5 years ago
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Let The Next Round Of Anti-Semitic Ads Begin - All four pro-public education candidates came in first in their LAUSD school board elections, but two will face run-offs in November.5 years ago
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The Fight For Our Children - *The number of suicides among people ages 10 to 24 nationally increased by 56 percent between 2007 and 2017, according to a new federal report showing the ...5 years ago
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Love Grow Your Own (but not without the actual growth part) - The Governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, recently announced a grow-your-own type of program for teachers. According to this piece: On Monday, Governor Ral...5 years ago
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Another attempted cash grab by the corporate ed crowd in Washington State: House Bill 2788 - The League of Women Voters has opposed charter schools because they don’t have boards elected by the voters but instead the corporation running the schools...5 years ago
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Some of Our Graduates Don't Even Know How to Tighten a Nut - Are schools neglecting practical knowledge and skills? Many of our students are graduating from high school with extremely limited practical knowledge essen...5 years ago
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Read to Self: Just a Kid and a Book. - Date: Monday, January 5, 2020 Place: My classroom Student: Mrs.Mims, could we start doing Read to Self again because I got this great book for Christmas an...5 years ago
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Reminiscences - I just finished dumping the rest of my lesson plans. I guess I held on to the calculus ones for so long because I spent so much time working on them an...5 years ago
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Just Asking for some Teachers I know. - Recently Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers stated, We must … recognize that part of supporting our kids in the classroom means supporting the educators who t...5 years ago
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Charging a terrified 10-year-old girl as a criminal is a very bad look for state attorney Dennis Ward - What the hell is going on? As a parent, I feel very comfortable using this exact wording to ask this … Continue reading →5 years ago
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Cara Menang Bermain Judi Bola Online - Bermain judi bola online tentu saja memiliki kesenangannya tersendiri baik itu mendapatkan keuntungan maupun ketika menantikan hasil skor pada sebuah perta...5 years ago
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Blaming Schools for Student Absences is Like Denouncing Doctors for Disease by Steven Singer - Originally posted at: https://gadflyonthewallblog.com/2019/08/25/blaming-schools-for-student-absences-is-like-denouncing-doctors-for-disease/?fbclid=IwAR1LV...5 years ago
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Jersey journalist roughed up at session sponsored by charter school groups - The sponsors of an event that doesn’t like journalists An independent New Jersey journalist was roughed up, his video camera was seized, and he was ejected...5 years ago
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K12 Inc. Data Breach Puts thousands of students at risk - It's hard to believe school districts are still contracting with this horrible company. K12 Inc. is the largest for-profit online alternative to actual pub...6 years ago
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A Critique of Standards-Based Grading - It first happened to me about ten years ago. I was beginning my third year of teaching in a new school in Washington, DC. Social studies teachers were si...6 years ago
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My First and Last Visit to Hudson Yards - Figuring I did not need to invite any more darkness and vulgarity into my head than that provided on a daily basis from Trump’s White House, and after read...6 years ago
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Reduced time for testing? Not so fast. - NYSED and Commish Elia continue to say that the NYS Assessments are of reasonable length, I completely disagree. Here is what NYSED states are average expe...6 years ago
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A Response to NorthJersey.com's Explosive "Cashing in on Charter Schools" Series - From NorthJersey.com's Cashing in on Charter Schools series Please note: THIS is what journalism looks like. For the better part of a *DECADE* I have wa...6 years ago
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This Week in Education Organizing - February 15, 2019 - Coalition for Education Justice to Release Report on CRE Eighty-five percent of public school students in New York City are Black, Latinx, or Asian and y...6 years ago
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The World According to Michelle Rhee - The men behind the curtain fashioning the brave new world of corporate run education in America! Michelle Rhee is the founder of StudentsFirst, The New T...6 years ago
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Libraries, books and overcoming the effect of poverty - *Published in the New York Times, September 20, 2018* *To the Editor:* *Re “Why libraries still matter.” [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/opinion/sund...6 years ago
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TSJ's 17th Annual Curriculum Fair - *TSJ's 17th Annual Curriculum Fair* *** REGISTER HERE *** *From Puerto Rico to Chicago:* *Reclaiming and Reimagining Our Communities* Saturday, November 1...6 years ago
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Whose Opinions Matter in Education World? - It's hard to identify education heroes and sheroes. And perhaps even harder to pinpoint just whose work is slanted, paid-for and dishonest.6 years ago
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Blockchain: Life on the Ledger - Originally posted on Wrench in the Gears: I created this video as a follow up to the one I prepared last year on Social Impact Bonds. It is time to examine...6 years ago
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Book Review: The History of Institutional Racism in U.S. Public Schools (2018, Garn Press) by Susan DuFresne - I recently had the privilege of reading Dufresne’s powerful illustrated history of educational and institutional racism in the United States. Dufresne blen...7 years ago
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Corruption on Top of Corruption: How Rahm’s Response to Sexual Abuse of Students Reveals His Core Function - Rahm Emanuel’s response to the Chicago Tribune investigation that found CPS failed to protect hundreds of students from sexual abuse is cowardly. It is co...7 years ago
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New Local Businesses in Sacramento - Starting a new local business in Sacramento is a monumental task, but can be accomplished with footwork, perseverance and knowledge. One must learn the loc...7 years ago
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Lesson Plan: Rhyme and Rhythm in Poetry - I’ve started a recent unit on poetry with my class. I’m not a poet, and I’m not a poetry fan (I don’t hate it, but I’m a prose gal), so this makes it harde...7 years ago
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The Apotheosis of Betsy DeVos - Betsy Devos has drawn few headlines in recent months, and that is a good thing for the Secretary of Education. Her tenure began with Vice President Mike P...7 years ago
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A Teacher’s Tale in the Midst of the Terror in our Schools - Students’ active-shooter plan for teacher in wheelchair: ‘We will carry you’ Reprinted from Allison Slater Tate Feb. 21, 2018 at 4:58 PM Like teachers all ...7 years ago
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Social Emotional Data. The new Cash Cow in the Corporate Assessment Industry - Recently I was asked to allow my son to participate in a survey at school. The "opt in" survey form specifically stated, "the questions on the survey rela...7 years ago
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Education Is a Civic Question - In their final post to end Bridging Differences' decade-long run, Deborah Meier and Harry Boyte urge readers to put the energy, talents, wisdom, and hard w...7 years ago
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Site News: New Home for Education News & Commentary - Quick! Get over there! The daily education news roundup and education commentaries that you're probably looking for are now being published over at The Gra...8 years ago
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Should We Be Grateful? - In an odd turn of events, and with little explanation, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has decided to return the state’s School Reform Office back to the Dep...8 years ago
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Parents Deserve to Know Who Is Being Appointed to State Board of Ed - I spent a rather surreal day at NJ Senate's Judiciary Committee meeting yesterday. This Committee, headed by Democrat Nick Scaturi, is responsible for a...8 years ago
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An Open Letter to NC Lawmakers - An Open Letter to NC State Lawmakers and NC State Superintendent Mark Johnson: I am a NC native, voter, and public school teacher. I am addressing you all ...8 years ago
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The Secret to Fixing Schools (My Next Bestseller) - The Secret to Fixing Schools (My next bestseller) Prologue I just finished watching a fascinating documentary on Netflix entitled, “The Secret”. The film p...8 years ago
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CPS Targets Special Education Teacher Sarah Chambers - Here are the remarks from an action we did today at River Point Plaza, a new development that used over $30 million in TIF funds. CPS claims we are broke...8 years ago
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Farewell, Sleep - Today is the official last day of my spring break. I've done a scientific survey: My natural bedtime is 2 AM, and my natural wake up time is 9:41 AM. Tom...8 years ago
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March is nearly over and I didn't do anything for WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH - I was inspired when I saw this meme I guess it can be called of WOMEN IN STEM and "IT'S OKAY TO BE SMART" And I began thinking about how the only subjec...8 years ago
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REPORT: States With the Best and Worst Schools - States With the Best (and Worst)Schools By *Evan Comen, Michael B. Sauter, Samuel Stebbins and Thomas C. Frohlich* January 20, 2017- http://247wallst.com ...8 years ago
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Test Refusal = People Power - In recent months, social media has been ablaze with talk of regular folk taking action to resist the Trump agenda. Protests are a daily occurrence, and ev...8 years ago
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Attitude Determines Altitude* (*conditions apply)… and the Importance of Humane District Themes - It has been a tumultuous few years in the South Brunswick community, specifically the South Brunswick School District. All you have to do is google the dis...8 years ago
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[video]Perils or Promises: Education in the Age of Smart Machines: Presentation at the City Club of Cleveland - On December 14th, 2016, I made a presentation at the City Club of Cleveland. Watch the presentation The Club’s website or Youtube. Title: Perils or Promise...8 years ago
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What Is To Be Done? Trump, the Election, and the Student Loan Crises - President-elect Donald Trump delivering acceptance speech in New York, NY on November 9 (Photo Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Ever since now Presi...8 years ago
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Prison Gerrymandering: Incarceration Weakens Vulnerable Voting Communities - One person equals one vote: seems simple enough. Unfortunately, that hasn’t worked out for many Americans throughout history, specifically women and peop...8 years ago
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Random Musings and Observations. . . . - I’ve been gone a while from the blogging scene. Some of my more regular readers no doubt noticed but did not hassle me about it. Thank you for that. Sinc...8 years ago
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WTU Headquarters On The Auction Block: Union Prez Liz Davis Doesn't Pay Property Tax! - *June 30th is the last official day of WTU Prez Davis' constitutional term. Malcolm Barnes explores this unfortunate scandal in the article below. What r...9 years ago
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AB 934: A LEGISLATIVE FIX FOR VERGARA? - By Michael Stratford | in the Politco Morning Education Report | via email 05/24/2016 10:00 AM EDT :: Two national education groups are backing a Califor...9 years ago
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Friday, June 11, 2010
HISD forces 162 teachers out of under-performing schools | School Zone | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Schools Matter: Imagine and 501(c)(3) Status
Imagine and 501(c)(3) Status
Imagine Schools is as a nonprofit corporation under Virginia state law. That only exempts the organization from the state's income tax. Five years ago the national charter school operator applied for exemption from federal income taxes under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3). They have yet to receive a determination. Why?
In "Failure of Imagination", Pittsburgh City Paper reporter Chris Young passes on Imagine executive vice president Sam Howard's explanation: "The IRS takes forever to do anything."
This issue has been bugging me for a long while. As it happens, circa 1999, leveraging the
Remainders: Look to Brooklyn for hot pre-k and gifted programs | GothamSchools
Remainders: Look to Brooklyn for hot pre-k and gifted programs
- About 600 students walked out of school today in support of continued free student Metrocards.
- Open less than a year, the Brooklyn School of Inquiry is the city’s second most coveted gifted program.
- And Park Slope’s P.S. 321 was the hardest pre-school to get into in the city.
- Pissed Off Teacher has trouble mustering enthusiasm among her students for a diagnostic test.
- Arthur Goldstein submits his remembrances of layoffs past.
- A professional development skeptic confesses that he found yesterday’s PD useful.
- A teacher in the Bronx questions why the state allows teachers to grade their own Regents exams.
- The UFT’s Jackie Bennett has more analysis of data on charter schools retention and achievement.
- To plug a budget gap, a NJ school asked parents to pay schools for their children’s housework.
- Two Brooklyn Tech students discuss their “SAT hangovers.”
- And P.S. 22’s choir wishes you a happy weekend with a nice cover of “I’ll Stand By You.”
Last year’s cue-card incident cost UFT’s political chief his job
I never figured out what the changes were — until today. After the incident, Marvin Reiskin, the union’s political director, retired. He was due to leave at the end of the year, anyway, but the retirement happened a month or so
Details on city’s plans to improve failing schools delayed a week
The federal government is giving New York State $308 million to help fix its lowest-performing 5 percent of schools, 34 of which are in New York City. To receive the funds, school districts must explain to the state which of four pre-approved models of school improvement they plan to use. The city’s plans were originally due today, but they’ve been delayed as city and teachers union officials haggle.
“While we work to finalize labor issues, we’ve been granted a one week extension on our application,” Department of Education spokesman Jack Zarin-Rosenfeld said. “Given the wide variety of schools involved, we want to make sure we have as many options as possible to fix these struggling schools.”
One major issue is whether the union contract limits which of the four models can be applied to schools. City officials have argued that the only model that does not require that teachers lose their position — the so-called
Harvard Student Detained By Immigration : NPR
Harvard Student Detained By Immigration
Free Technology for Teachers: Video - Oil Spill by the Numbers
Video - Oil Spill by the Numbers

H/T to Jeffery Hill's The English Blog.
Applications for Education
This video could be useful for showing students the breadth of the impact of the oil spill. After watching the video you could have students develop their own timelines related to the oil spill.
Spare the Rod… & other Inappropriate Conventional Wisdom Dealing with Youth | Lefty Parent
Spare the Rod… & other Inappropriate Conventional Wisdom Dealing with Youth
Kids are obviously stakeholders in their own lives, and like most other stakeholders they generally want and deserve to have input into decisions made about the course of their lives, if not having the final say on those decisions. There seem to be a lot of adults, who play a stewardship role in kids’ lives as parents, teachers, etc. that don’t seem to get this. Or maybe relying on inappropriate myths or conventional cultural wisdom, they think their responsibility as stewards to these kids somehow trumps kids’ own right to self-direction.
We adults mostly understand this when dealing with other adults, and our society and most of its institutions basically “get it” that adult stakeholders should have input or even the final say in key decisions in their lives, unless they are say convicted criminals or judged mentally incompetent. This is a key element of the whole evolving concept of individualism over the past five centuries of human history and thought in the transition from feudal monarchies to citizen republics and free enterprise.
But when it comes to youth, our society and its institutions are often still inclined to use that older feudal model
Statement by the President on World Day Against Child Labor | The White House
Statement by the President on World Day Against Child Labor
I applaud my Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis, who has helped increase our efforts to address child labor abroad and here at home. My Administration is committing $60 million this year to support efforts to reduce child labor around the world. The Department of Labor has also taken steps to improve protections for child workers in the United States, and we have dramatically increased our child labor law enforcement efforts. And this week the Department of State and the Department of Labor jointly hosted a conference on child labor that demonstrated our intention to take a whole of government approach to this issue. Participants from multiple federal agencies and the National Security Council, alongside NGOs and multilateral organizations, all reaffirmed a commitment to take action against child labor in the year ahead. We must address the root causes of child labor by ensuring access to education for all children and helping families to secure sustainable livelihoods and to overcome the poverty that contributes to child labor. On this World Day Against Child Labor, all of us must recommit ourselves to creating a world where our children have a brighter future, free of exploitive labor.
Sac City and teachers union reaches deal - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee
Sac City and teachers union reaches deal
District officials said details of the agreement will not be available until Monday, while specific impacts will be hammered out in the coming weeks. The deal still needs to be ratified by union members.
The district and teachers union hope to maintain 25 students per teacher in kindergarten through third grade classes, according to a press release. The agreement is also expected to save many middle and high school counselor positions.
"I am extremely proud of our entire district today," said district Superintendent Jonathan Raymond in a press release. "This announcement illustrates a commitment by both sides to stand together as we weather uncertain financial times, regardless of how long they may last."
Union members will vote on the agreement on Monday. It will then go to the school board for final approval later
LAUSD In Search of Funds | NBC Los Angeles
LAUSD In Search of Funds
"If Measure E required a simple majority to pass, we would be celebrating right now," an LAUSD statement said.
Updated 4:01 PM PDT, Fri, Jun 11, 2010



HISD hires official to oversee under-performing schools | School Zone | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
June 11, 2010
HISD hires official to oversee under-performing schools
How Should LAUSD Be Structured? - Perdaily.com
How Should LAUSD Be Structured?
It is the purported purpose and uncontradicted position among all parties in the debate on fixing the long-failed public education system that education is more than ever necessary. The foundational purpose of public education is to teach at the very least a sufficient amount of basic language, math, social studies, and science skills so that students can ultimately assume their future role as responsible adults and productive members of society. As productive working members of society with the necessary knowledge acquired from education they must also serve as arbiters of power as anticipated by our constitution. What seems a gross disconnect from
Join Superintendent Raymond’s SUMMER READING challenge and Get Caught Reading a great book! SAC City DAC


~ SCUSD is coming together to encourage, inspire, and require our students to become engaged with reading and to develop a life-long love of reading and literacy.~
Go to Sacramento City Unified School District Web Site
Read two or more books this summer and record the titles on a Reading Log.Bring the completed Reading Log when you return to school in the Fall.We are aiming for 80,000 books!
Recommended Reading Lists:
Tips for Parents
Reading Tips for Students
Summer Reading Programs
at Sacramento Public Libraries
Summer School
June 21 -July 30, 2010
(July 5, 2010, Holiday)
Contact:
Mike Crosby, Summer School Office 643-9427
Special Education Summer Programs
Contact:
Vivian Miller, Special Education Services 643-9116