Appeals court rules against Ozaukee virtual schoolBy AMY HETZNER
ahetzner@journalsentinel.comPosted: Dec. 5, 2007
A virtual school based in the Northern Ozaukee School District plans to appeal a court ruling that it violates several state laws and ask for a stay of an order that would prevent it from receiving payments for non-district students enrolled at the school.
In my workshop last week I had referred to the AHS blogging policy. It is an excellent example. One feature of it that I really liked was the section on “Successful bloggersâ€. This approach is so much more uplifting than a list of “do not’s.†Approaching blogging from the angle of what bloggers should aspire to achieve. It doesn’t get better than that. An example of what appropriate blogging for schools looks like is provided. This tangible example really helps. It is actual work taken from an AHS classroom blog, with typos corrected. This policy is a model for us to aspire to achieve. You may want to adapt parts to fit your school’s needs and reshape it to meet your objectives.
Tags: Best, Blogging, policyMinister appointed to School Board Hargrove to take Racine Unified postBy DANI McCLAIN
dmcclain@journalsentinel.comPosted: Dec. 4, 2007
Racine - The Rev. Melvin Hargrove has been appointed to the Racine Unified School Board to fill the post vacated by Randy Bangs, who resigned unexpectedly last month.
School for 4-year-olds growing in county Fallout from federal law encourages programsBy AMY HETZNER
ahetzner@journalsentinel.comPosted: Dec. 4, 2007
Publicly funded 4-year-old kindergarten is one area in which Waukesha County residents have been the have-nots to the haves of Milwaukee County.
Shoebat draws crowds, debate Ex-terrorist speaks at UWMBy ERICA PEREZ
eperez@journalsentinel.comPosted: Dec. 4, 2007
Self-described former terrorist Walid Shoebat told an audience of about 750 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Tuesday night that Muslims in the Middle East are raised to believe in the destruction of Israel.
School Board buys time for budget Members are trying to find ways to make $2.6 million in cutsBy AMY HETZNER
ahetzner@journalsentinel.comPosted: Dec. 4, 2007
Waukesha - School Board members might not meet their original timeline to complete work on the 2008-'09 budget by the end of the year, but they said they won't be too far off if discussions go into January.
Bill Fitzgerald sure is a nice guy! I had a great time chatting with him this morning in what turned out to be the first recorded Open Source Classroom dot com Interview! We talked about OpenAcademic which I have posted about recently. There aren’t a whole lot of details available on the inner workings of the project so I went to the source. The project centers around OpenID which particularly interests me since I have had to prune Drupal out for my kids to prevent having to enter that many user names and passwords. OpenID would solve all that, although there are still a few practical questions lingering in my head. That’s a later conversation, though. Towards the end of the interview, he even gives a potential release date!
Read the rest of this entry »
"When W. David Hellyer, 50, took the plunge into self-employment in 2004, he had a bachelor's degree in business administration and psychology as well as 26 years of experience in corporate America, including many years as the general manager of a manufacturing company. Yet one of his first moves after co-founding Kadat Partners LLC in Pinegrove Mills, Pennsylvania, was to contact the Penn State Small Business Development Center office and sign up Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Classes, Entrepreneurcom, Execs-Turned-Entrepreneurs, Find, HelpfulWashington
The Bush administration will propose rules requiring states to use a uniform graduation rate and publish data on the graduation rates of students of various racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic categories, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings said today.
“I will take administrative steps to ensure that all states use the same formula to calculate how many students graduate from high school on time,” Ms. Spellings said in a speech today at an event organized by the America’s Promise Alliance. “In addition, we will make this data public so that people nationwide can compare how students of every race, background, and income level are performing.”
Tags: Follow, Formula, Graduation-Rate, Have, Spellings, States, Uniform, Will