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Friday, January 31, 2014

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I Don’t Think Taking & Throwing Out Students’ Lunches Because Their Parents Owe The School Money Is A Good Idea

By now, you may have already heard about what happened in Salt Lake City this week — the parents of a number of students owed money on their children’s lunch account and, because of that, after those students were served lunch it was taken away and thrown in the garbage. You can read about it in these articles: Utah School Draws Ire For Taking Kids’ Lunches; Debt Cited is from NPR. Utah school dis




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Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement": Newark Parents RevoltI’ve been posting about some wild stuff happening in Newark recently. It got even wilder last night when hundreds of parents and educators protested actions being taken by the state-appointed school superintendent. Read about what happened here and here. It sounds like the superintendent is being very s