All Posts Tagged With: "Education"
Don’t Forget! Red Clay Referendum Vote Today
I have no idea how this will turn out. Here’s the basic info on who can vote and where you can vote. I’d like to take a moment to thank everyone for reading and commenting on my posts over the last several weeks. Your comments were interesting, thought provoking and informed! I learned a lot. Thanks!
28Feb2012 | pandora | 2 comments | Continued
Red Clay Referendum Tomorrow
Everything I’ve written has all been leading up to tomorrow’s referendum. Info on where to vote can be found at The Friends of Red Clay (Red Clay’s SuperPac?) referendum site. For those that want to catch up or review, click inside for links to my past posts.
But an education post wouldn’t be complete without linking to Kilroy’s post “Red Clay’s political bedfellows take a hand at pouring Kool-Aid – which points us to the News Journal’s editorial by Fred C. Sears II, president and CEO of the Delaware Community Foundation and Karen L. Morris, managing partner of Morris and Morris LLC.
27Feb2012 | pandora | 2 comments | Continued
A Comment At Kilroy’s Sparks Another Education Post
I’ll post the original comment from commenter, Deliberate_1, first and then my reply. Click inside to read it. After reading this yesterday my head was spinning. First, this guy is really angry and defensive. I almost didn’t respond, but then Cassandra came over last night and we got to talking. What follows is what we discussed – a mind meld of pandora and cassandra. Pull up a chair, this is going to take a while.
25Feb2012 | pandora | 9 comments | Continued
Education Segregation: Delaware Black Caucus Threatens To Sue
While Race to the Top may be the trigger, the re-segregation of our schools was well underway long before RTTT with the help of Choice, Neighborhood School’s Law, and Charters. Jea Street spells it out: “The new millennium term is ‘charter school’ and ‘choice school. I call it segregation. There are black charter schools and there are predominantly white charter schools. You can call it what you want, but it is what it is.”
24Feb2012 | pandora | 43 comments | Continued
Update: Red Clay Board Member, Kim Williams, Replies To Jack Wells
I was actually stunned to find this response in my email this morning. Once again it was copied to everyone.
23Feb2012 | pandora | 13 comments | Continued
School Choice By District, Or One Of These Districts Is Not Like The Other
When it comes to Choice the Red Clay Consolidated School District wins. Take a look at these numbers:
22Feb2012 | pandora | 43 comments | Continued# of Students in District: 15,954
Total Choice Students: 4946
# of Students in District: 17,190
Total Choice Students: 1409
# of Students in District: 10,657
Total Choice Students: 1982
# of Students in District: 9,925
Total Choice Students: 296
Jack Wells Questions Red Clay
If you aren’t on Jack Wells’ email list, I’m surprised – since everyone seems to be on this list! But if you’re not… welcome to dueling emails. It begins with the one Mr. Wells sent to Red Clay on its hiring practices. Ms. Floore, the CFO of Red Clay responds.
22Feb2012 | pandora | 11 comments | Continued
Rick Jensen Interviews Red Clay Officials On Referendum
Kilroy live-blogged the show. Go over to his place and read the whole thing!
Before I get into what was said during the interview let me say that it looks like we’ve found a tax increase that Rick Jensen supports.
According to Kilroy, when Red Clay was asked about building a school in the city, rather than the suburbs, their answer was to cite the number of Charter Schools that opened in the city. Seriously? Charter Schools are not Red Clay schools, and that statement sounded as if RCCD was saying, “We don’t need to consider our city residents since, if they aren’t happy with our RCCD schools, they can leave our traditional public schools and go to Charter schools.
15Feb2012 | pandora | 24 comments | Continued
NAACP Issues Charter School Resolution
Here’s what caught my attention:
WHEREAS, in some cases, charter schools have become a school model that is used
to segregate students; and
Ya think? Charter Schools have also allowed School Districts to shift their responsibilities to these students to Charters. Which is why I’ve always wondered why Charter proponents wanted to serve on Public School Boards. Always struck me as being an employee of Pepsi, but promoting Coke. And you gotta love the way a Public School District Board’s plan for your public school is to give it away. It’s almost as if they’re saying, “Hey, we stink at this education thingy, so we’ll give it to someone else.”
9Feb2012 | pandora | 10 comments | Continued
In Red Clay It Shouldn’t Be City vs Suburbs
I’m not even going to link to the article in today’s News Journal, because it really doesn’t say much and the reporter missed the opportunity to report on the real story – a story that involved parents and citizens all over the district are discussing around their kitchen tables, on blogs and at work. This story has several parts.
First, not all Red Clay Schools are created equal. For an interesting discussion on this check out Kilroy’s posts on Red Clay (there’s a lot of them) and this conversation taking place on The Seventh Type. Yes, we’ve been over this, and if you need to catch up check out my posts here and here.
One of the problems I’m seeing is the split in the District. Suburbanites want their neighborhood suburban schools. City parents don’t want their schools to suffer because of these new schools, and want the District to invest in these schools.
8Feb2012 | pandora | 45 comments | Continued
Readin’, Ritin’, and Running Amok
Newsflash: a Sussex County elected official doesn’t like to follow the rules and takes matters into their own hands. No, I’m not talking about Wyatt Earp Sheriff Jeff Christopher, I’m referring to Cape Henlopen School Board member Sandi Minard, (pictured 5th from the top).
Minard is a teabagger. She won her seat in [...]
Is Capacity Really The Issue In Red Clay?
Last week I wrote a post on the upcoming Red Clay Consolidated School District Capital Referendum. The ballot has been broken into two parts – renovations for existing schools and a new elementary school at Graves Road. I will not be voting for the new school, and here’s why…
6Feb2012 | pandora | 52 comments | Continued
Red Clay Referendum And City Schools
The Red Clay Consolidated School District is holding a Capital Referendum on February 28, 2012. Included in this referendum is the addition of another new suburban elementary school. Let me begin by saying that I wouldn’t have a problem with the new school if Red Clay would ensure that its other schools didn’t suffer when a new school opened. Unfortunately, this hasn’t been the case. In the past 10 days my email has been filled with letters from community advocates and parents from the Highlands, Warner and Shortlidge community. Everyone has the same concern: New schools hurt existing schools, especially city schools. The evidence backs up their concerns.
2Feb2012 | pandora | 23 comments | Continued
An New Idea About Affording College
As most of you know, the Pandora household is preparing to send our first born off to college. We actually received our first second acceptance letter! For those of you not here yet… the cost of college is enough to take your breath away, which is why this article caught my attention.
19Jan2012 | pandora | 11 comments | Continued
Bullying Okay If Done In The Name Of God
One only has to venture over to a Conservative blog to understand that if these people ever got their way they’d burn the rest of us at the stake. But until that day arrives they’re content to let children be bullied in the name of their morality and their god.
4Nov2011 | pandora | 25 comments | Continued
Over At Kilroy’s: What About The (Charter) Children?
I’ve been having a back and forth with Kilroy over at his blog. It all started with this thought in his post entitled: Pennsylvania moves towards school voucher.
31Oct2011 | pandora | 27 comments | Continued
Denn Highlights Education Successes
In yesterday’s News Journal Lt. Gov. Matt Denn wrote a op-ed highlighting some of the successes we’ve had in education in Delaware.
1Sep2011 | nemski | 27 comments | Continued
Independence Day?
So I wonder what these people will be celebrating on Monday?
According to a new poll by Marist, more than a quarter of Americans couldn’t correctly identify the country from which the United States declared its independence. While 74 percent correctly named Great Britain, 20 percent said they weren’t sure and six percent named other countries. [...]
Let’s Hear It for Evolution
The 2011 Miss USA “scholarship” pageant was held last night in Las Vegas. Out of the 51 contestants, only two of them said that they believed in evolution.
Out of all the contestants in last night’s Miss USA pageant, only two affirmed they thought evolution should be taught in schools.
The winner, 21-year-old Alyssa Campanella was [...]
Appoquinimink Names New Superintendent
Today the Appoquinimink School District is announcing that their next superintendent will be Matt Burrows, currently the principal of Redding Middle School. Burrows will replace retiring superintendent, Tony Marchio. Appo is the fastest growing school district in the state, so Mr. Burrows has his work cut out for him.
15Jun2011 | liberalgeek | Comments Off | Continued
Quote of the Day 5/17/11
“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be maintained.” – President James A. Garfield
17May2011 | xstryker | 2 comments | Continued
Sunday Reading — Education
There have been a few articles in various places over the week that might be of interest as we continue to debate the future of education here in Delaware:
1May2011 | cassandra_m | Comments Off | Continued
The Miracle That Wasn’t
USA Today investigated the standardized test scores of some schools labeled successful and found some unusual patterns.
29Mar2011 | Unstable Isotope | 14 comments | Continued
A Tea Partier’s Letter To His Teacher Wife
A Tea Partier in Ohio writes a letter of apology to his teacher wife for voting for John Kasich.
17Mar2011 | Unstable Isotope | 16 comments | Continued
Guest Post: Delaware’s Education Insight Project (Part 2: What Will It Look Like?)
The following is a guest post by Mike Oboryshko. Mike is a Red Clay parent and a friend of mine and of this blog.
In Part 1, I introduced the Education Insight Project, and went over the RFPs that define the beginning of design and implementation. In Part 2, we will get into some more detail.
What [...]
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