Sunday, December 25, 2011

Search legislative support and opposition | California Watch

Search legislative support and opposition | California Watch:

Search support and opposition

Use this form to search support and opposition filings collected by California Watch and The Sacramento Bee from the latest bill analysis for every bill filed in the California Legislature in 2011.

Only organizations that formally filed their support or opposition to a bill are listed in the database. Many groups lobby bills without formally registering a position.

Source documents for this database come from nonpartisan staff analysts, who write support and opposition information into the regular bill summaries and analyses they provide to lawmakers.

Analysts typically produce a new analysis for each step a bill takes through the legislative process. Sometimes, support and opposition may be listed in an early version of the analysis but will not be copied into subsequent versions. Our database only tracks positions listed in the most recent analysis file, even if support or opposition was not copied over from an earlier version.

Questions about the database can be sent to California Watch Technology Director Chase Davis at cdavis@cironline.org.

OrganizationSupport/PassSupport/Not PassOppose/PassOppose/Not PassTotalWinning Rate
California Charter Schools Association2104785.7%
Charter Schools Development Center00033100%
ACE Charter Schools00033100%
MAAC Community Charter School10012100%
Coastal Grove Charter School00022100%
Monterey Bay Charter School00011100%
San Jose Charter School Consortium00011100%
Liberty Charter School00011100%
Santa Rosa Charter School00011100%
Literacy First Charter School00011100%
Environmental Charter Schools00011100%
Golden Valley Charter School of Sacramento00011100%
Ventura Charter School00011100%
CORE Butte Charter School10001100%
Celerity Troika Charter School00011100%
Leonardo Da Vinci Health Sciences Charter School00011100%
International Charter School of La Mirada00011100%
Bullis Charter School00011100%
Jacoby Creek Charter School District010010%

Only A Few Days Left To Contribute To The Next ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival! | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

Only A Few Days Left To Contribute To The Next ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival! | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…:

Only A Few Days Left To Contribute To The Next ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival!

The next EFL/ESL/ELL Blog Carnival will be posted on January 1st, so there are only a few days left to contribute a post! David Deubelbeiss from EFL Classroom 2.0 will be the host. This is how David describes the theme:

The theme for this blog carnival is FUN. Submit any blog post, past or present, that really exhibits the power and potential of FUN in the classroom.

He’s got some interesting plans for the Carnival, and you can read about them here.

You can contribute a post to it by using this easy submission form. If the form does not work for some reason, you can send the link to me via my Contact Form. You can also communicate directly with David.

Berni Wall published the 25th Edition of EFL/ESL/ELL Blog Carnival. She asked for teachers to contribute the most popular posts from their blogs and, boy, did she get them. It’s filled with gems!

The March 1st edition will be hosted by Adam Simpson. You can read about his plans for it at his post, No, don’t stop the carnival.

Dani Lyra will be hosting the May 1st edition.

Let me know if you might be interested in hosting future editions.

You can see all the previous editions of the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival here.

The Innovative Educator: Emoticons Enhance Expression :)

The Innovative Educator: Emoticons Enhance Expression :):

Emoticons Enhance Expression :)

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Guest post by Willyn Webb | Cross posted at Teaching Generation Text

Some critics of text messaging feel it is ineffective communication because it is void of emotion, lacking the message enhancements that tone of voice and nonverbal expression provide. Maybe those critics never received a love note. Yes, text messages are short, quick, and full of abbreviations. However, the back and forth nature of texting more closely resembles conversation than a note or letter. As we have seen, it is a combination of two forms of communication which has proven very appealing to teens and tweens. In addition to needing to find the right word to convey emotions A whole new means of communicating feelings and emotions has developed for use with texting called emoticons. Emoticons are symbols used to represent feelings. The use of emoticons in text messages makes them very effective in expressing the feelings that go with the words. In The Seattle Times David Silver, a University of Washington professor of communication who

Top 10 city education stories of 2011 | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

Top 10 city education stories of 2011 | Philadelphia Public School Notebook:

Top 10 city education stories of 2011

Thank you for following the Notebook through an incredible year. The Notebook staff will be on break until January 3. But we leave you with a look back at the past year, and eagerly anticipate connecting with you in 2012.

It has been a tumultuous year at the School District of Philadelphia. We have compiled a list of the 10 biggest education stories of 2011, roughly in order of importance. We invite you to post your comments, thoughts, and disagreements over the holiday break.

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A look back at a tumultuous year in Philadelphia public schools

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Martin Luther King’s Christmas sermon on peace. « Fred Klonsky

Martin Luther King’s Christmas sermon on peace. « Fred Klonsky:

Martin Luther King’s Christmas sermon on peace.

The following is from Martin Luther King’s Christmas Sermon on Peace. Dr. King first delivered this sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he served as co-pastor. On Christmas Eve, 1967, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation aired this sermon as part of the seventh annual Massey Lectures.

It’s one of the strangest things that all the great military geniuses of the world have talked about peace. The conquerors of old who came killing in pursuit of peace, Alexander, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, and Napoleon, were akin in seeking a peaceful world order. If you will read Mein Kampf closely enough, you will discover that Hitler contended that everything he did in Germany was for peace. And the leaders of the world today talk eloquently about peace. Every time we drop our bombs in North Vietnam, President