Tuesday, May 18, 2010

40 Years Later, It's Time For Another Latino Walkout - Perdaily.com

40 Years Later, It's Time For Another Latino Walkout

by Leonard

Since the only thing that continues to motivate educators and politicians is the Average Daily Attendance (ADA) money that is collected for warm butts in school seats where no education takes place, I would strongly support another Latino walkout.

However, this time members of the Latino community and those who support them as the majority population in the State of California need to have a clear platform of what the education establishment must agree to in order to bring the walkout to an end. Given the huge level of daily student truancy and movement from school to school without ever being engaged in a relevant process of appropriate education geared to the precise level the students are at, there must be a clearly stated platform that all elements of students and parents and the educators that support them require that all live up to in order for this walkout to be something more than more wasted time outside of school.

It is even possible for educators and students to meet in alternative venues where education can continue with the only difference being that LAUSD doesn't get paid for it. In the last 7 months of writing perdaily and observing

Nike and Oregon Community Foundation team up to offer grant program | OregonLive.com

Nike and Oregon Community Foundation team up to offer grant program

By The Oregonian

May 18, 2010, 10:20AM

Nike, through the Oregon Community Foundation, will grant up to $500,000 a year for three years -- up to $1.5 million -- to local nonprofits and schools for creating positive social and environmental change through physical activity.

Announced Monday, the Nike Employee Grant Fund awards will be offered twice a year across the greater Portland area: Multnomah, Clackamas, Washington, Yamhill and Columbia counties in Oregon and Clark County in southwest Washington.

Nike employees will serve on an advisory committee to develop grant recommendations for the foundation and will volunteer their time and professional experience to help nonprofits achieve their objectives.

"We want to benefit communities where Nike employees live, work and volunteer through this new employee backyard grant and volunteer program," said Hannah Jones, vice president of Nike Sustainable Business

Jamba Juice and National Gardening Association Launch 'Sip to Support a Garden(TM)' Gardening... -- SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

Jamba Juice and National Gardening Association Launch 'Sip to Support a Garden(TM)' Gardening Partnership with California's First Lady Maria Shriver

Innovative Program Provides Year-Round Fundraising Support for School Gardens and Creates 'It's All About the Fruit(TM)' Competitive Grants to Promote Nutrition, Sustainability and Volunteerism

SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Jamba Juice and the National Gardening Association (NGA) today announced a fun, easy way for schools and communities to support nutrition education through gardening and the planting of fruit trees. The multi-faceted partnership is designed to provide year-round funding for gardens, create school fruit tree planting grants, support nutrition education and encourage community service.

The announcement was made at an event in Sacramento, California with First Lady Maria Shriver marking the one-year anniversary of the State Capitol's WE Garden. She was joined by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, Jamba Juice Company President and CEO, James D White, along with Jamba Juice team members, community leaders and school children, all coming together to garden and plant fruit trees on the Capitol grounds. The anniversary celebration set the stage for announcing the first set of Jamba fruit tree grants to schools in the Sacramento region.

"WE Garden is all about bringing communities together to promote a stronger, healthier California," said California's First LadyMaria Shriver. "This new partnership between Jamba Juice and the National Gardening Association will provide ongoing funding for school gardens and establish grants to plant fruit trees. I applaud their work to support California's WE Garden program and help take our message to schools across the nation."

The Jamba Juice-NGA program announced today builds on Jamba's longtime commitment to supporting schools and communities by promoting health, wellness and physical activities. The new program will focus on four core elements: gardening, fruit tree plantings, nutrition education and volunteerism. The goal is to grow the program by registering schools and community gardens, creating a movement that positively impacts youth and influences health, wellness and sustainability.

"Jamba Juice is proud to announce this innovative program that will provide continuous, year-round resources for schools and communities to support gardening and nutrition education," said Mr. White. "We are so appreciative of First Lady Maria Shriver's leadership and support of our fruit tree grants program which will help teach students the importance of fruit and good nutrition in their daily lives. Jamba cares about schools, communities and kids and we are proud to do our part to support them."

Key components of the Jamba Juice –National Gardening Association program include:

Sacramento school district to vote on Race to the Top submission - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

Sacramento school district to vote on Race to the Top submission

by mgutierrez@sacbee.com (Melody Gutierrez)

The Sacramento City Unified School District school board will vote Thursday on whether they will participate in round two of Race to the Top funding.
School districts have to submit their request by Friday to participate in the second round, which features $4 billion in education grants.
California lost out on up to $700 million in federal education money during the first round of Race to the Top, with reviewers citing the state's lack of union support as a factor in the denial. In the first application, about half of local districts said they would participate and in those districts, only a quarter of the teachers unions signed on.
California's weak data system for tracking student performance also played a role in the first-round defeat.
California came in 27th among 41 applicants, winning 354 points out of a possible 500. Only Delaware and Tennessee were selected in the first round.

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Education Research Report: Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters

Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters

KIDS COUNT Special Report, Early Warning! Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters.

This Special Report focuses attention on the critical importance of achieving grade-level reading proficiency for all children by the end of third grade. The 2010 KIDS COUNT Special Report makes the case that reading proficiently by grade three is a fundamental benchmark in developmental success and overall childhood well-being.

Can't sell off a school that never was closed | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

Can't sell off a school that never was closed

by Paul Socolar on May 18 2010 Posted in Latest news

You may wonder whether a school closing decision can be any more last-minute than what is planned for the Childs School in South Philadelphia.

The School Reform Commission will be hearing testimony May 26 about plans to close Childs and move the program to Barratt next fall. The 90-day school closing process required by state law means that it won't be until August 25 that the Commission decides officially whether to relocate Childs. By that point, the move of Childs to Barratt, which is being renovated this summer, will be pretty much a fait accompli.

Yet the School District managed to top that and be even more belated about a school closing decision - with W.S. Peirce School in Grays Ferry, which was shut down in 2007. There the story is of a school and a group of a couple of hundred

Media Advisories--Department of Education U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SENIOR ADVISOR TO DISCUSS KIDS COUNT REPORT

Media Advisories--Department of Education

Event Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. ET
Contact: Sandra Abrevaya or Elaine Quesinberry (202) 401-1576 or
press@ed.gov

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SENIOR ADVISOR TO DISCUSS KIDS COUNT REPORT TO BE RELEASED BY ANNIE E. CASEY FOUNDATION

U.S. Department of Education Senior Advisor for Early Learning Jacqueline Jones will participate in a panel discussion, following the release of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT special report, Early Warning! Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters, at the National Press Club on Tuesday, May 18. The panel will discuss why it is important for children to read at grade level by the end of third grade; the status of grade-level reading performance nationwide; research about the causes of underperformance and solutions that work; and what can be don

Event Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Contact: Jim Bradshaw (202) 401-2310 or
press@ed.gov

ASSISTANT SECRETARY POSNY TO ADDRESS D.C. CONFERENCE ON DISABILITY EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Assistant Secretary Alexa Posny, who heads the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services at the U.S. Department of Education, will deliver remarks at a conference sponsored by the Family Support Center on Disabilities Wednesday in Washington. Dr. Posny will discuss the importance of educational opportunity and success and its role in future employment opportunity, as well as reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act.

Event Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Contact: Sandra Abrevaya (202) 401-1576 or
press@ed.gov

SECRETARY OF EDUCATION WILL HIGHLIGHT SUPPORT FOR JOBS BILL IN NYC SCHOOL VISITS WITH CHANCELLOR JOEL KLEIN AND MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG

Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan travels to New York City where he will visit three Brooklyn schools with Chancellor Joel Klein and Mayor Michael Bloomberg. This afternoon, Secretary Duncan will visit Kings Collegiate Charter School, a successful charter school run by the Uncommon Schools charter network. During his visit, Secretary Duncan will stop by a seventh grade math class with Principal Lauren Harris. From there, Secretary Duncan, Chancellor Klein and Mayor Bloomberg will be joined by Mike Casserly, executive director of the Council of the Great City Schools, for a visit to P.S. 214. While there, Secretary Duncan will learn about P.S. 214’s extended day, Saturday Academy, and dual English-Spanish language kindergarten class. A press avail will be held at the end of the visit, from 2:00-2:30 p.m. At the end of the day, Secretary Duncan will head to P.S. 65, a traditional school turned around under the leadership of Principal Daysi Garcia. During Principal Garcia’s brief tenure, student performance on state assessments have dramatically improved in both math and language arts.

During today’s trip to New York, Secretary Duncan will highlight the importance of securing $23 billion in emergency funds to preserve education jobs, along with $1 billion to preserve early childhood education jobs. Last week, Secretary Duncan and Director of Domestic Policy Council Melody Barnes voiced support for emergency funds. To read Secretary Duncan’s letter to Congressional leadership and Director of the Domestic Policy Council Melody Barnes letter, visit here.

Event Date: 10 a.m. CDT Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Contact: Jo Ann Webb (202) 401-1576 or
press@ed.gov

ASSISTANT SECRETARY TO DISCUSS ESEA REAUTHORIZATION AT TEXAS SCHOOL ALLIANCE MEETING

U.S. Department of Education Assistant Secretary Thelma Meléndez de Santa Ana will discuss reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) at a meeting of the Texas School Alliance on Wednesday, May 19, at the Doubletree Guest Suites in Austin. Approximately 60 superintendents and their representatives will attend. The Texas School Alliance, founded in 1990, represents 34 of the state’s larger, diverse school districts. These districts work together to provide a positive and significant impact on public education in Texas.

Event Date: 10 a.m. CDT Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Contact: Jim Bradshaw (202) 401-2310 or
press@ed.gov
U.S. EDUCATION SECRETARY TO VISIT BOSTON: DELIVER COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS, HOLD JOBS DISCUSSION, HONOR TOP BOSTON EDUCATORS
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will visit Boston Wednesday, delivering the commencement address for Lesley University, touring an elementary school, holding a roundtable discussion on saving education jobs in Massachusetts, recognizing community partnerships at another elementary school and honoring Boston Educators of the Year.
Duncan will begin his day at 10:30 a.m. by addressing Lesley's Centennial Commencement at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. At noon, he will travel to Beachmont Elementary in Revere where he will tour classes and host a roundtable discussion on saving education jobs in Massachusetts. Among the participants will be Massachusetts Education Secretary Paul Reville, union leaders, Revere School Superintendent Paul Dakin and teachers.
At 1:25 p.m., Duncan will visit Josiah Quincy Elementary in Boston along with Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Superintendent Carol R. Johnson. There, Duncan will pay tribute to Boston Educators of the Year as part of a discussion with them about effective strategies for academic success. Second- and third-grade students will perform a dance routine for Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. And, the secretary will commend special school-community partnerships in place at the school.

HISD's Saavedra to join A&M faculty | School Zone | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

HISD's Saavedra to join A&M faculty

Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle

Aggie indoctrination: HISD board member Greg Meyers, an Aggie, gives Saavedra a shoulder pat (or push?) just before he announced, on Feb. 4, 2009, that he intended to step down in 2010.

Go ahead, get those Aggie jokes ready. My editor is a University of Texas graduate so I'm sure he won't mind. Former Houston ISD Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra, who stepped down Aug. 31, will join the faculty of Texas A&M's College of Education and Human Development on Sept. 1.

A year away from HISD appears to have treated Saavedra well (note how relaxed he looks in the photo in A&M's news release).

Saavedra will teach graduate-level courses in the superintendency, school finance and human resource administration. He also will work with teacher interns and will direct the Administrative Leadership Institute, an annual conference for school leaders.

"I think we can build on the work that the public school administration program has done up to this point," Saavedra said in the news release. "Texas A&M has such a great advantage over other higher education institutions in its proximity to an urban area such as Houston."

Now that Saavedra's back in the public sector, here's hoping he'll return my phone calls. He

Brill-iant | Intercepts

Brill-iant

by Mike Antonucci

Last year, Steven Brill caused a commotion with his exposé of New York City’s rubber rooms. Some have credited Brill with providing the impetus for getting them closed.
Now Brill is at it again, with a piece for the New York Times Magazine headlined, “The Teachers’ Unions’ Last Stand.”
It’s a meaty article, but the part that is already receiving attention comes at the very beginning, when Brill is interviewing United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew.

Next to Mulgrew was his press aide, Richard Riley. “Suppose you decide that Riley is lazy or incompetent,” I asked Mulgrew. “Should you be able to fire him?”
“He’s not a teacher,” Mulgrew responded. “And I need to be able to pick my own person for a job

The Washington Teacher: Breaking News: Rhee To Hire 600 Teachers While Making Cuts To DCPS Staff

Breaking News: Rhee To Hire 600 Teachers While Making Cuts To DCPS Staff

by The Wash. Teacher

Breaking News

An inside source reports that DCPS principals were advised recently in a principals meeting that the Rhee administration plans to hire 600 new teachers for school year 2010-2011. As late as last week Chancellor Rhee appeared on the Kojo Nambi radio show with hosts Tom Sherwood and Mike Debonis. At that time Rhee indicated that 400 teachers would be hired in the fall. So it seems this number has risen in less than a week's time. It is also not coincidental that George Parker, WTU president indicated back in March 2010 before WTU Representative Assembly members in a meeting that Rhee planned to fire 15% of WTU members through the IMPACT evaluation process in July 2010 . Roughly 15% of WTU membership equals 600 teachers/school personnel. That would mean that 600 teachers could be expected to be fired this summer. The million dollar question is how did Rhee know in March that she planned to fire 15% of our teachers through the IMPACT evaluation given that the process has yet to be completed ? Will the 600 teachers fired through IMPACT be

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Good Saturday morning. Jay Leno: “President Obama says he is angry and frustrated with the oil spill in the Gulf and the oil companies behind it. He said he’s tired of all the finger-pointing -- then he blamed the Bush administration for the whole thing.”

FIRST LOOK -- Speaker Pelosi will deliver the keynote commencement address for undergraduate and graduate students at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., this morning. From her prepared remarks: “I understand the importance of an all-women’s education; I’m a beneficiary of one myself. I’m a proud graduate of Washington, D.C.'s Trinity College: the oldest women’s Catholic college in America. And it was the confidence and education that I gained at an all-women’s college that helped me go from the kitchen to the Congress. … My path to the Speaker’s office was not planned. But what prepared me best to be a leader in Congress was raising my five children. … This March, I was at the White House … when historic health care reform was signed into law by President Barack Obama. As the world watched this moment, so did Trinity College. They were very proud to have two alumnae there with the President that day: the first

Scoring Race to the Top: A Look Behind the Curtain Education Week American Education News Site of Record

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Scoring Race to the Top: A Look Behind the Curtain

In this exclusive analysis published by Education Week, journalist Steven Brill looks at how judges’ scoring sheets and written comments show inconsistencies and soft spots in the process. (May 18, 2010) | Comments (1)

Analysis Ties 4th Grade Reading Failure to Poverty

A foundation planning a literacy initiative says 85 percent of poor 4th graders in the lowest-income schools fail federal reading tests. (May 18, 2010) | Comments (1)

Fired R.I. Teachers Approve Deal to Get Jobs Back

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Gov. Paterson Predicts Rejection of Many School Budgets

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Ohio Public Charter Schools Sue Over Private Owner

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Harvard discloses pay for endowment officials - The Boston Globe

Harvard discloses pay for endowment officials

By Beth Healy

Globe Staff / May 18, 2010

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The chief of Harvard University’s endowment earned nearly $1 million for her first six months on the job in 2008, according to a tax filing made public Monday, as global markets plunged and dragged the fund down with them.

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Jane Mendillo joined Harvard on July 1, 2008, and oversaw a 22 percent dive in the endowment through October of that year. The fund’s value would tumble 27 percent, to $26 billion, by the end of her first full fiscal year on June 30, 2009.

In a trying period for the elite institution, Harvard’s president, Drew Gilpin Faust, earned $822,011 in total compensation in calendar 2008, up 6 percent from the prior year. Of that, $96,000 was for housing.

The highest-paid faculty member on the tax disclosure is professor William E. Fruhan of Harvard Business School, who took home nearly $1.2 million that

NCLB Foe's Trouble Could Impact Senate Race - Politics K-12 - Education Week

NCLB Foe's Trouble Could Impact Senate Race

by Alyson Klein

Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut Attorney General who filed the lawsuit against the No Child Left Behind Act, is running into problems of his own in his bid to claim the Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, a Democrat.
Blumenthal may have inflated his experience in the military, in order to give the impression that he served in combat during the Vietnam War, according to this New York Times story. He'll be giving a press conference later on today to "fight back", according to his home state paper, the Hartford Courant.
Why does this matter for education?
Well, up until this point, Blumenthal was considered a very safe bet to beat the likely Republican nominee,

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Nike and Oregon Community Foundation team up to offer grant program

By The Oregonian

May 18, 2010, 10:20AM

Jamba Juice and National Gardening Association Launch 'Sip to Support a Garden(TM)' Gardening Partnership with California's First Lady Maria Shriver

Innovative Program Provides Year-Round Fundraising Support for School Gardens and Creates 'It's All About the Fruit(TM)' Competitive Grants to Promote Nutrition, Sustainability and Volunteerism

Can't sell off a school that never was closed

by Paul Socolar on May 18 2010 Posted in Latest news

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SENIOR ADVISOR TO DISCUSS KIDS COUNT REPORT TO BE RELEASED BY ANNIE E. CASEY FOUNDATION

ASSISTANT SECRETARY POSNY TO ADDRESS D.C. CONFERENCE ON DISABILITY EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

SECRETARY OF EDUCATION WILL HIGHLIGHT SUPPORT FOR JOBS BILL IN NYC SCHOOL VISITS WITH CHANCELLOR JOEL KLEIN AND MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG

ASSISTANT SECRETARY TO DISCUSS ESEA REAUTHORIZATION AT TEXAS SCHOOL ALLIANCE MEETING

U.S. EDUCATION SECRETARY TO VISIT BOSTON: DELIVER COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS, HOLD JOBS DISCUSSION, HONOR TOP BOSTON EDUCATORS

HISD's Saavedra to join A&M faculty

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Harvard discloses pay for endowment officials