Historically black Ala. colleges get large grants
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education is awarding millions in grants to historically black colleges in Alabama.
The five-year grants will impact curriculum and training programs, campus building improvements and a squeeze of systematic equipment.
The dialect pronounced a Alabama grants embody scarcely $4 million for Alabama State University, $3.2 million to Alabama AM University, scarcely $3 million to Lawson State Community College, and $2.3 million for Tuskegee University. Miles College is removing $2 million, Stillman College $1.7 million, and Oakwood College scarcely $1.6 million.
Today is ‘Count Day’ during Michigan’s open schools
It’s count day during open propagandize districts opposite Michigan.
This is a initial year that “Fall Count Day” determines 90 percent of per-student appropriation for a 2012-2013 educational year (in before years it was 75 percent).
A winter count day in Feb creates adult a remaining 10 percent.
Many schools reason special events to make certain students come to class.
The Michigan Department of Education requires that students accept instruction in all classes on count day.
See some-more about a mandate here.
OUSD Lets Feds Monitor Discipline for Black Students
Oakland Unified’s governing board voted unanimously last week to let the feds make sure black students in the district aren’t treated unfairly when it comes to classroom discipline.
The agreement with the U.S. Department of Education ends an investigation by the federal agency into the disproportionate number of suspensions and expulsions given to OUSD’s black students, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The newspaper reported that while black students account for 39 percent of OUSD’s enrollment, they represented 61 percent of expulsions last school year.
Numbers released by the Department of Education in March showed that at Claremont Middle School, black students, who were 66 percent of the school population in 2009, received all of the expulsions, all of the in-school suspensions and 87 percent of the out of school suspensions for that year.
The suspension and expulsion statistics school districts provide to the California Department of Education don’t include student race. But, in the 2010-11 school year, Claremont Middle School recorded 289 suspensions.
Historically black Ala. colleges get large grants
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The U.S. Department of Education is awarding millions in grants to historically black colleges in Alabama.
The five-year grants will impact curriculum and training programs, campus building improvements and a squeeze of systematic equipment.
The dialect pronounced a Alabama grants embody scarcely $4 million for Alabama State University, $3.2 million to Alabama AM University, scarcely $3 million to Lawson State Community College, and $2.3 million for Tuskegee University. Miles College is removing $2 million, Stillman College $1.7 million, and Oakwood College scarcely $1.6 million.
Dale Jacobson, Grand Forks, column: For orderly classrooms, untie teachers …
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By Dale Jacobson
GRAND FORKS — It is not news that education in the United States is in trouble. It also is not news that teachers often are blamed for this problem, despite a recent MetLife survey that found “69 percent of teachers felt their voices were not heard in discussions of public education.”
It is a curious situation when teachers are held accountable for a system they feel they have no ability to influence.
Some other interesting numbers: While we expect teachers to control their classrooms (and teachers are terminated for the inability to do so), nearly half of teachers reported being accused of unfairly disciplining a student, and 55 percent said that districts’ backing down from assertive parents results in greater discipline problems.
Interestingly, 74 percent of parents thought that parents’ not teaching their children discipline was one of the main reasons for student misbehavior.
One-third of teachers said they’d considered leaving the profession due to discipline difficulties. Nevertheless, teachers too often do not get support from either the parents or the school.
In fact, instead of asking teachers about ways to improve education, we prosecute them. The U.S. Department of Education now requires schools to find teachers guilty of an accusation if there is a 51 percent chance of their guilt, even if a jury has acquitted them or the charges are dismissed — which means they still can lose their license.
In practice, 51 percent can mean nothing more than the subjective judgment of one biased investigator. Imagine if your job depended on the legal equivalent of a coin toss.
And even if teachers don’t lose their license, they still can easily lose their jobs. Many find their treatment so unfair and traumatic, they leave the profession despite the years invested in their education, licensure, unpaid loans and teaching experience — an incredible waste of a valuable resource in a time when we desperately need it.
Recently, a 32-year-old teacher, a former Army Reservist, committed suicide after being accused of hitting a student. She said it was a playful tap but became depressed for fear of losing her job.
We are not alone. Britain, which identifies classroom discipline as being a key issue, actually has passed legislation allowing criminal prosecution of students making false accusations against teachers, which are estimated to be as high as 30 percent. “These changes will give teachers confidence that they can remove disruptive pupils,” Britain’s education secretary states.
It should be the responsibility of administrators and superintendents — those with real authority — to enforce effective policies that let teachers maintain discipline. Otherwise, the teachers are powerless, and students know this.
In fact, teachers have been criminally charged for little more than yelling at students — and even if law allows them to physically restrain students who are out of control, they don’t dare do so for fear of being charged with assault.
If they are going to be subjected to criminal charges for trying to keep order in their classrooms, they should be allowed to call in the police, and let the police confront the students or parents. It would be interesting to see how well that works for the police and prosecutors.
In fact, police have arrested children in classrooms, including a five-year-old placed in handcuffs for a temper tantrum. They have even tasered children, resulting in at least one death.
The better solution is to provide teachers with support rather than recrimination for trying to do their jobs. This needs to come from administrators, parents and the community. Teachers cannot solve these problems alone.
Jacobson is a senior lecturer in English at UND.
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Teachers can earn continuing education credits at home this summer with … – The Jackson Citizen Patriot
SUMMIT TWP., MI – Teachers looking to head back to school themselves this summer to earn continuing education credits can take classes online at home through Jackson Community College.
The college’s corporate and continuing education office is offering classes that provide State Board Continuing Education Units, which are required for renewal of teacher certification by the Michigan Department of Education.
The classes are available from JCC through online provider Ed2Go and include six-week courses on creating a classroom website, solving classroom discipline problems and differentiated instruction in the classroom.
Each class provides 2.4 continuing education units. Cost is $109 per class.
To find out more, visit the corporate and continuing education website or call 796-8610.
Teachers can earn continuing education credits at home this … – The Jackson Citizen Patriot
SUMMIT TWP., MI – Teachers looking to head back to school themselves this summer to earn continuing education credits can take classes online at home through Jackson Community College.
The college’s corporate and continuing education office is offering classes that provide State Board Continuing Education Units, which are required for renewal of teacher certification by the Michigan Department of Education.
The classes are available from JCC through online provider Ed2Go and include six-week courses on creating a classroom website, solving classroom discipline problems and differentiated instruction in the classroom.
Each class provides 2.4 continuing education units. Cost is $109 per class.
To find out more, visit the corporate and continuing education website or call 796-8610.
School to turn Witney’s initial academy
School to turn Witney’s initial academy
12:00pm Wednesday 30th May 2012 in News
By Fran Bardsley
Headteacher Nicky Edmondson
A 350-year-old Witney propagandize is set to turn a town’s initial academy tomorrow.
Staff during Henry Box School in Church Green wish a change will concede them to move in some-more staff and have some-more income to spend on training resources.
As partial of a change a 1,400 student delegate propagandize will take over a former military hire on site, that has until now been used by Oxfordshire County Council staff.
It is designed to modify a military hire – a listed building – to a new reception, entrance and offices for a school.
That means space now used for those functions in a categorical propagandize can be liberated adult as training areas, in sold special educational needs provision.
The works will cost in a segment of £40,000 from a school’s collateral budget, and are set to be carried out during a summer holidays.
The change of standing to academy is theme to removing a final sign-off from a Department of Education, that is approaching to occur this week.
Headteacher Nicky Edmondson said: “We have been deliberation this for a prolonged time, it’s not something we have rushed into. We have been holding into comment a views of a village and weighing up
all a options. It seems to us this is unequivocally a right thing for a school.”
She pronounced there would be a “considerable” financial advantage for a propagandize in a initial year though would not be drawn on accurately how most that would volume to.
Mrs Edmondson explained a income would be spent on additional resources for special educational needs and literacy, bringing in a dilettante and augmenting support staff.
She said: “One of a things we acquire are a additional freedoms apropos an academy brings nonetheless during a impulse we don’t have any skeleton to make any changes to a curriculum or teachers’
conditions.
“We see this as a approach of safeguarding a preparation we offer to a children so if there are destiny changes to a curriculum, we can confirm for ourselves either or not those are things that are of
advantage to a children of Henry Box School.”
The propagandize has a prolonged history, opening 352 years ago in 1660.
Mrs Edmondson was eager about a event to take over a aged building, that operated as a military hire until 1968.
She said: “That was a unequivocally sparkling thing for a school. It has been on a site growth devise for a propagandize for about 10 years that we would eventually modify it to a propagandize and now
that’s going to occur since of apropos an academy.
“I don’t consider a children will see any disproportion during all on Friday, since we haven’t left for academy standing in sequence to exercise lots of large changes.
“It’s really most business as usual.”
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Merger to Cost 100s of Teaching Jobs?
Memphis, Tn – The Transition Planning Commission approved a plan Thursday which would cut hundreds of jobs to help fill the 67 million dollar budget gap for the new Unified School District. The plan could send some teachers packing in the 2013-2014 school year.
Last week the budget gap was 89 million dollars. The TPC has managed to make cuts since then, but not without leaving many jobs on the chopping block.
Commissioners spent more than three hours on this plan. It includes cutting 280 teachers, 250 full time staff, 100 assistant principals, and 115 librarians. That’s expected to help save 54 million dollars.
Martavius Jones was the only commissioner present who voted against the plan.
“There were a number of recommendations that seemed to be draconian cuts. We’re talking about building a world class educational system, moving forward, I understand the economic challenges we face today, but we seem to want a public school outcome, but only willing to make the investment in public education of half or even 30 to 40 percent of a private school,” said Jones.
Despite the 54 million dollars in savings from cutting jobs, there’s still a budget gap. The TPC hopes to collect up to 29 million through some initiatives, including, possible city grants, and repayment by the city of a pending legal ruling.
The TPC is expected to review the entire plan on June 14. The Unified School Board will then vote on the plan in August before presenting it to the Tennessee Department of Education.
Manhattan Teaching Assistant Arrested On Sex Abuse Charges
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Another Department of Education worker is confronting sex abuse charges after allegedly creation passionate comments to an 8-year-old student.
The occurrence happened during PS 84, The Lillian Weber School, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Police contend Hany Abdalla, 35, was arrested Wednesday and charged with endangering a gratification of a child along with sex abuse.
DOE officials contend Abdalla has worked as a training partner during a propagandize given 2007.
Parents contend this occurrence and arrests during other schools have them disturbed about their child’s safety.
“If this can occur during a propagandize where relatives are so endangered they’re during a propagandize everyday, it’s unequivocally frightening,” pronounced one endangered parent.
“My grandson goes in here, we don’t know what’s going to happen,” pronounced a endangered guardian. “It seems like each propagandize is doing a same thing. Every time we spin around there’s a clergyman that’s messing with a children.”
Officials contend Abdalla has been dangling but pay.
So distant this year, 8 other DOE employees have been indicted of crimes of a passionate inlet opposite students.