Local News | Marquette withdraws offer of job to Seattle U. professor | Seattle Times Newspaper

Local News | Marquette withdraws offer of job to Seattle U. professor | Seattle Times Newspaper

Marquette withdraws offer of job to Seattle U. professor

Officials at Marquette University in Milwaukee said Thursday that a lesbian scholar from Seattle University who has published works on gender and sexual orientation will no longer be offered a job as dean for the college of arts and sciences.

By The Associated Press

MILWAUKEE — Marquette University officials said Thursday that a lesbian scholar who has published works on gender and sexual orientation will no longer be offered a job as dean for the college of arts and sciences.

The decision to withdraw the offer from Seattle University professor Jodi O'Brien wasn't about O'Brien's sexual orientation or the quality of her work, said Marquette spokeswoman Mary Pat Pfeil. But, Pfeil said, some of O'Brien's published writings "relating to Catholic mission and identity" were a factor.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that the decision drew criticism from some Marquette faculty members. About 100 students protested Thursday, carrying signs in front of Marquette's Alumni Memorial Union.

O'Brien told The Associated Press in an e-mail Thursday night that the situation is disappointing.

"At this time the only comment I can offer is to confirm that I was offered the position of Dean and I accepted it, but there was an intercession by the President before my appointment was announced officially," O'Brien said in the e-mail. "I'm very disappointed. The College of A&S at Marquette is strong and vibrant and I was looking forward to working with the students and faculty there."

She has been with Seattle University since 1995 and has been chairwoman of its anthropology department since 2002.

"This was a decision based on a totality of factors, specifically related to the fit for the candidate to the

Seattle area again well represented in Essentially Ellington jazz contest

Roosevelt High School's band will compete in the prestigious Essentially Ellington jazz competition in New York City for the sixth year running. Two other local schools, Garfield and Edmonds-Woodway, also made the field of 15 finalists.

Wash. community college tuition to go up 7 percent

The Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges has voted to increase tuition by 7 percent, adding about $200 to the cost of going to school full-time next school year.

Rise & Shine: City wants to start layoffs with U-rated and ATRs | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: City wants to start layoffs with U-rated and ATRs | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: City wants to start layoffs with U-rated and ATRs

by Philissa Cramer

• City schools fared worst in Mayor Bloomberg’s budget plan. (GothamSchools, Times, Daily News, NY1)
• Areas where more teachers are new will feel the brunt of the cuts hardest. (Wall Street Journal)
• Chancellor Klein writes that he wants to start layoffs with teachers rated unsatisfactory and ATRs. (Post)
• Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute says higher class sizes won’t hurt students. (Daily News)
• The Times blames Albany for the cuts but wonders whether so many teachers need to be laid off.
• The Daily News says the teacher cuts show that state legislators aren’t putting children first.
• Juan Gonzalez: A tax rule has banks making profiting from charter school construction. (Daily News)
• A parent group is pushing for an alternative to school closures that helps struggling schools. (City Limits)
• A Bronx teacher is putting his students to work on an urban farm in a food desert. (Daily News)
• A team of Stuyvesant HS students, all women, won a prize for envisioning a bionic eye. (Post)
• State Sen. Bill Perkins opposes some school choice, but voters have choice about him, the Post writes.
• A handful of city private schools have dropped an admissions test whose scores keep rising. (Times)
• Students at some schools are using virtual worlds to develop their business skills. (Times)

Remainders: A student-run bank branch opens in Harlem school

by Maura Walz

• A debate is shaping up over whether Congress authorized Race to the Top. Politics K-12 weighs in.
• Capital One bank is opening a student-run branch inside Harlem’s Thurgood Marshall Academy.
• A “neighborhood schools sellout” explains her difficult decision to send her kid to a magnet program.
• It will take $4 billion a year to get nutritious school meals to America’s hungry schoolchildren.
• Britain’s Conservative Party is taking some inspiration from the KIPP charter school chain.
• Colorado’s two teachers unions disagree over whether to support that state’s new tenure bill.
• A parent tries to shield her seventh-grader against the trauma of HS admissions but it may be too late.
• Mrs. Mimi plans to blog about the “Top 100 Children’s Novels of ALL TIME.” First up: The Egypt Game.
• Just because a school isn’t ranked high doesn’t mean it’s not good, Chancellor Klein told Australians.

NorthJersey.com: NJEA concerned school aid cuts will hurt state's application for federal funds

NorthJersey.com: NJEA concerned school aid cuts will hurt state's application for federal funds

NJEA concerned school aid cuts will hurt state's application for federal funds

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BY LESLIE BRODY

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The New Jersey Education Association expressed concern Thursday that the Christie administration’s cuts in aid to schools will hurt the state’s new application for federal Race to the Top funding.
Barbara Keshishian, president of the NJEA, met with Education Commissioner Bret Schundler Thursday afternoon to discuss the state’s second bid for $400 million in competitive grants. The application is due June 1.
“Prioritizing education funding is actually an area in which New Jersey scored very well in the first round,” she said in a release. “We are concerned that the state will lose valuable points this time if the governor’s budget proposal remains in place, with its deep cuts to state support for public schools.”
Governor Christie said $820 million in aid cuts for fiscal 2011 are necessary because of the state’s fiscal crisis.
Schundler has said the Race to the Top bid contains his blueprint for an overhaul of New Jersey’s education system. He has said he would unveil it today, and that a union buy-in was not as critical as serious reform in winning the money.
Schundler’s meeting with the union president came a day after he said the Christie administration was going

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For-profit colleges leave many students in debt | Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/06/2010

For-profit colleges leave many students in debt | Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/06/2010

For-profit colleges leave many students in debt

By Susan Snyder

Inquirer Staff Writer

When Sarah E. Gagliano enrolled in 2006 at the Art Institute of Philadelphia - a for-profit college - she dreamed of a career in fashion design.
Instead, she is nearly $100,000 in debt with no degree. A poor academic student, she quit about halfway to a bachelor's degree.
Gagliano has since defaulted on her private loans, which the school helped her get, and could be forever haunted by the debt, which even bankruptcy generally can't erase.
"I don't even know what to do. . . . It's very depressing," said Gagliano, 21, who earns $8 an hour at Insomnia Cookies, a delivery service to college students.
With enrollment soaring at for-profit colleges, more students are taking on crushing debt, but students at these colleges default at higher rates and graduate at lower rates than their peers at nonprofit and public schools.
Advocates say the schools help low-income, less-prepared students fulfill their dreams. Critics contend they prey on low-performing students and load them with untenable debt.
Education Management Corp., the Art Institute's parent company, which enrolls nearly 140,000 students at 97 campuses, says it encourages cautious borrowing. "We take seriously our responsibility of ensuring that families and students . . . are provided as much support and

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(Long Island, N.Y.) The New York State Senate unanimously passed Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky’s bill that would increase transparency of the Board of Trustees of the state and city universities and the Higher Education Services Corporation …

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Education advocates to hold rally in Balboa Park - SignOnSanDiego.com

Education advocates to hold rally in Balboa Park - SignOnSanDiego.com

Education advocates to hold rally in Balboa Park

Group opposes cuts to public schools

BY MAUREEN MAGEE, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

FRIDAY, MAY 7, 2010 AT 12:04 A.M.

/ COURTESY PHOTO / CARLOS LEGERRETTE

Parents, teachers, community activists and other members of Educate for the Future plan Saturday’s rally against further cuts to public schools last weekend in Golden Hill at the home of Carlos LeGerrette.

RALLY FOR OUR SCHOOLS

Who: Educate for the Future and advocates

What: A rally to stop state education cuts

When: Saturday; entertainment at 9:30 a.m., speakers at 10 a.m.

Where: Balboa Park, Sixth Avenue and Laurel Street

SAN DIEGO — They have been meeting every Sunday morning for months — same time, same Golden Hill home, same concerns — to plan an education rally aimed at sending Sacramento a message:

No more cuts to schools.

Some parents, educators, students and others who make up Educate for the Future have jokingly referred to the weekly sessions as their own church service.

That makes Saturday’s Rally for Our Schools a full-on religious holiday.

“The rally is designed to create a space for a lot of people who care about public schools to just come around together about one common message,” said Richard Barrera, the San Diego school board president and one of the organizers. “It’s about encouraging people to get active, to send a message a week before the governor comes out with his May (budget) revise.”

Education advocates throughoutCalifornia have staged events and activities in recent weeks to stop Gov.Arnold Schwarzenegger from going ahead with a proposed $2.5 billion cut to public education funds in next year’s budget.

But in San Diego, activists hope their rally is the beginning of a larger movement to influence lawmakers and call them out on broken campaign promises to support education. The more people the group represents, the more clout members say they will have in Sacramento and in San Diego.

“Everybody in Sacramento wants to say they support education; they find it very easy to say,” said Barrera, a

K-State Collegian - Arizona immigration law stirs controversy

K-State Collegian - Arizona immigration law stirs controversy

Arizona immigration law stirs controversy

By Tyler Sharp

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Published: Friday, May 7, 2010

Updated: Friday, May 7, 2010

Photo Illustration by Matt Binter

Immigration has been a contentious issue for a considerable time in the United States. A new law in Arizona appears to have stoked enough controversy to continue this tradition.

On April 23, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act into law. The act, passed as Senate Bill 1070, includes many provisions aimed at enforcing the state’s immigration laws. The act is set to go into effect on July 28.

One of the more notable provisions of the act calls for a legitimate attempt to be made to determine immigration status of a person in contact with governmental authorities if a “reasonable suspicion” exists that the person is an illegal immigrant.

Colin Curtis, sophomore in political science and state president of the Kansas Young Democrats, said this provision opens the door for racial profiling.

“It legalizes it,” he said. “This puts any minority, immigrant or not, at risk for something as minor as being without their driver’s license.”

Additionally, being in the state illegally would be a violation of state law. The violation would be classified anywhere between a class one misdemeanor to a class four felony based on the nature of the violation.

The law will also make employing illegal immigrants and transporting them anywhere illegal.

Another provision of the act allows citizens to sue their local government if they feel the law is not being adequately enforced.

Whether the act is constitutional has been continuously questioned since it was signed into law. Kris Kobach, a law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and candidate for Secretary of State in Kansas, helped craft the act

voiceofsandiego.org | Grossmont Schools: No Impact from Redevelopment Money Verdict

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Grossmont Schools: No Impact from Redevelopment Money Verdict

I just heard back from Grossmont schools about whether the big news from Tuesday -- that redevelopment money could be used for school budgets -- was going to impact them. The verdict?

Nope, said Scott Patterson, deputy superintendent of business services for Grossmont Union High School District. Just like San Diego Unified, Grossmont had already planned for this shift in funding because Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger included it in his January budget

What Race Are Vista School Board Members?

Here are some more issues I didn't get a chance to explore in my article on how legal challenges across the state could prompt San Diego County school districts to revamp their elections:

• Race isn't the only fault line when it comes to how people are represented on the school

'No Gain, No Loss'

A few readers wanted to know how the big headline in the Union-Tribune this morning -- "State given OK to take local funds for schools" -- would impact funding for local school districts.

San Diego Unified wouldn't have any changes to its budget, spokesman Bernie Rhinerson told me, because it was already budgeting for this switch. "No gain, no loss," he wrote me in an e-mail

More Than 100 Teachers Face Budget Ax

More than 100 educators in their first few years at San Diego Unified will get warnings that they might lose their jobs this summer, according to teachers union President Camille Zombro, who was notified of the number today.

The school board finalized the plan behind closed doors Tuesday after months of deliberating over how many teachers, if any, would receive the dreaded warnings. Zombro said the vote was 4 to 1, with school board President Richard Barrera casting the only

Hiring Freeze? What Hiring Freeze?

San Diego Unified is worried that its hiring freeze, which is estimated to save $1.8 million on salaries this year, may not have actually been a freeze. The school board recently asked its top officials to study whether school district managers hired hourly workers to fill vacant jobs that were supposed to be left unfilled during the freeze.

This could pose a problem: While San Diego Unified had a strict process for deciding when schools and offices could fill positions and when they had to leave them empty to save money, there isn't the same vetting process to hire an hourly worker. If lots of schools or district departments did that to avoid the freeze, it may have seriously undermined the savings that San Diego Unified got out of freezing its hiring.