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National Chapter SchoolWatch "An Organization Dedicated To Better Schools" www.schoolwatch101.info **LEGISLATIVE ACTION ALERT**
 EPIC to Hold DC March for Teachers
On October 18th, 2008, EPIC, a not for profit group that was founded to give power to teachers, is holding a march in Washington, DC. They have already signed up hundreds of teachers and NAPTA is hoping that many of our members will attend and help make this march a powerful statement about the situation in which teachers find themselves. Before the march, there will be speakers as described at EPIC website - which include the well known education activist John Gatto. Myra Sawyers, the founder of this group, has arranged for housing for 20 NAPTA teachers. The first 20 who sign up and request a place to stay will be able to avoid the cost of a hotel. I am hoping that those of you who live near Washington, DC will attend also. Teachers needing anonymity can march and listen to the speeches with bags over their heads, which will serve both to protect their identity as well as show the public just how bad things are for teachers. So please do not hesitate to participate because you are afraid of losing your job. It is time this country was shamed over how teachers are treated. We all know that powerlessness has become teacher abuse and we need to make public statements to force it to stop not just for teachers, but for all who lose in these dysfunctional schools. We need to force the media to take this on; a well attended march along with some powerful speeches will get the attention we need.
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LAW The Leadership Council Southwestern Illinois has added Belleville-based Mathis, Marifian, Richter and Grandy to its list of members. Representatives from the firm will join other leaders in the business, industry, labor, education and government sectors that work together to encourage business investment and development in southwestern Illinois.
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On the Boards (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
The Foreign Policy Research Institute, a nonprofit education and foreign policy organization, has elected Dov S. Zakheim vice chairman of its board. Zakheim is vice president of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., McLean, Va., and was undersecretary of defense and
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Community Calendar (Skokie Review)
Based upon space availability, The Review prints calendar announcements and items for columns, including campus news, newsmakers and others for local organizations and individuals. The deadline is 14 days before the desired publication date, however there is no guarantee for publication.
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Greenberg Traurig Announces 2010 Public Interest Fellows (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
The international law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP, in alliance with Equal Justice Works, has named its 2010 Fellows. Nine individuals will receive funding though the Greenberg Traurig Fellowship Foundation to provide pro bono legal services to community programs. The public interest law fellowships begin in September and run for two years. The combined classes of 2009 and 2010 will consist of 19 ...
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West Carroll Spelling Bee Winners (The Prairie Advocate)
The annual Spelling Bee at West Carroll Intermediate School was held on Wednesday, January 27, in the Media Center. Sixteen students who had been previous winners in classroom spelling bees were competing that day. Fifth grade teacher Beth Diener acted as pronouncer.
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Court ruling in Riverside case assists in advocacy for special-needs students (The Press-Enterprise)
A recent court decision in a Riverside County case says special-education teachers have the same standing to sue a school district as the special-needs students they serve. The ruling is reminiscent of the access to courts that civil rights workers gained during the 1960s -- the right to take action on behalf of others, even if the workers themselves were not targets of discrimination, one ...
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EP Global Communications, Inc. Welcomes Stephen DeFelice, MD, to Advisory Board (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
EP Global Communications, Inc. , , , , the parent company of Exceptional Parent magazine, is proud to announce that Stephen L. DeFelice, MD, has joined the EPGL Advisory Board. Dr. DeFelice is one of the world's leading authorities on nutraceutical products and is credited for introducing the term "nutraceutical."Â
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Letters to the editor: Hoffman can defeat Kirk in fall (Glenview Announcements)
There is a primary election coming up on Feb. 2, and democrats need to be very concerned about who we will nominate to run for Barack Obama's old Senate seat for two very important reasons.
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Audit: school district literacy programs on track (Oswego Ledger-Sentinel)
Audit results of a literacy program for grades K-2 in the Oswego School District were presented to school board members last month.
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Schooling in sync; Students work together in reading groups. Teachers work together to identify what students need ... (The Bulletin)
There was a time when, at the start of each day, teachers could enter their classrooms, close their doors, and spend the day teaching with their own rules and their own schedules.Those days are over.A new academic system in place at 10 elementary schools seeks to create schoolwide schedules, rules and curricula that bring students and teachers in each grade together more regularly with the ...
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HILLSBOROUGH: HEF grants launch class programs, school upgrades (Hillsborough Beacon)
The Hillsborough Education Foundation awarded five grants totaling $6,926.55 for school programs this year.
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Tobi Tobias on Dance et al. (Arts Journal)
On Christmas morning last year, I walked the reservoir track in New York's Central Park, since the gym was, naturally, closed for you-know-who's birthday. Hundreds of people, most of them armed with cameras, were strolling around the loop in the delicious sunshine. Few of them were speaking English.
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HIGHER EDUCATION: Balanced world view (The New Straits Times)
International Islamic University of Malaysia’s alumni association members abroad are creating change in government, business and education, reports NURJEHAN MOHAMED.
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Special report: Food for thought (Ottawa Citizen)
Insect and rodent infestations. Undercooked meat. Sloppy dish-washing. Employees who don't clean their hands properly. Those are among the food safety hazards discovered this past year by City of Ottawa health inspectors who check the conditions at restaurants, cafeterias, pizza shops and even hot-dog wagons.
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STAAR test to replace TAKS for student assessment (The Carrollton Leader)
The Texas Education Agency announced Tuesday the new standard in student assessment testing. The Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) will be replaced by the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) beginning in the 2011-2012 school year.
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STAAR test to replace TAKS for student assessment (The Colony Courier-Leader)
The Texas Education Agency announced last week the new standard in student assessment testing. The Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) will be replaced by the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STARR) beginning in the 2011-2012 school year.
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Special education director sounds off in national publication (The Daily News of Newburyport)
Special Education director Karen Brann was recently cited in the national publication "Administrator" on issues pertaining to the escalating costs of special education. Brann spoke to a reporter for the latest edition of the magazine about the difficulty schools are facing to fund explosive special education costs in their attempt to educate fairly and wisely in accordance with the law. In the ...
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Special Section: Education / Getting Smarter (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
This Education Planning Guide focuses on how to improve your chance of success in higher education.
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Honolulu Superintendent Explains Special Ed Teachers Making Up Furlough Time (KHON 2 Honolulu)
Are special needs students being cheated out of a fair and complete education? And are teachers using special education opportunities to recoup income lost from furlough Fridays?
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School officials taking steps toward in-house special education (Fall River Herald News)
The possibility of an in-district school to serve special education students who are currently sent out of the city for an education moved a step closer Monday.
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Medford Rep. Paul Donato attends meeting for special education funding needs (Medford Transcript)
Legislators from the Greater Boston area today (Feb. 8) attended a meeting at Farr Academy, a therapeutic day school in Cambridge, to discuss the dramatic funding disparities between state approved special education schools and public schools.
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School of the Osage board to hold special public meetings this week (Lake Sun Leader)
Osage Beach, Mo. — School of the Osage's Board of Education will hold two special public meetings this week for the Communication and Community Involvement Committee and the Planning and Student Achievement Committee.
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Special election Tuesday for EMS, M&O levies; measures pay for emergency medical services, education (Journal of the San Juans)
The 2009 special election to decide whether to extend tax levies for education and emergency medical services is Tuesday. Similar measures are on ballots on Lopez and Orcas islands. A total of 11,154 ballots have been mailed to voters countywide; on San Juan Island, 5,520 ballots were mailed out, Elections Supervisor Doris Schaller said.
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Hampton City Schools' director of special education announces plan to run for School Board (Daily Press)
A Hampton City Schools insider has declared her intention to run for a seat on the School Board in May. Sharon Warren, 53, is the district's director of special education.
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Toys"R"Us, Inc. Expands its Support of Autism Speaks Throughout North America (redOrbit)
WAYNE, N.J., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Toys"R"Us, Inc. and the Toys"R"Us Children's Fund announced they have expanded their support of Autism Speaks to include a fundraising campaign in all of the company's stores in North America.
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Study links autism to mother's age (The Toledo Blade)
LOS ANGELES TIMES LOS ANGELES - Women who give birth after age 40 are nearly twice as likely to have a child with autism as those under 25, but it is unlikely that delayed parenthood plays a big role in the current autism epidemic, California researchers reported yesterday. The findings were expected to draw widespread attention because of the intense public interest in autism, but their true ...
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Study links age of mom to autism (The Washington Times)
A woman's chance of having a child with autism increases substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, a new study analyzing more than 5 million births found. "Although fathers' age can contribute risk, the risk is overwhelmed by maternal age," said University of California at Davis researcher Janie Shelton, the study's lead author. Mothers older ...
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Autism odds rise with older moms (New York Post)
A woman's chance of having a child with autism increases substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, according to a new study analyzing more than 5 million births. "Although fathers' age can contribute risk, the risk is overwhelmed by maternal...
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Study: Autism risks grow for kids of older moms (The Arizona Republic)
LOS ANGELES - Women who give birth after age 40 are nearly twice as likely to have a child with autism as those younger than 25, but it is unlikely that delayed parenthood plays a big role in the current autism epidemic, California researchers reported Monday.
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Study links mother's age to child's risk of autism (Los Angeles Times)
Moms over 40 are nearly twice as likely to have a child with autism, according to the analysis of California births. The study finds that in most cases, the father's age plays little role. Women who give birth after age 40 are nearly twice as likely to have a child with autism as those under 25, but it is unlikely that delayed parenthood plays a big role in the current autism epidemic ...
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Autism risks detailed in children of older mothers (AP via Yahoo! News)
A woman's chance of having a child with autism increase substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, a new study analyzing more than 5 million births found.
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Age of mother affects child's autism risk: study (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Being an older mother significantly increases the risk of having a child with autism, but being an older father only increases the risk when the mother is under the age of 30, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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Older mothers' kids have higher autism risk, study finds (CNN)
A 10-year study examining 4.9 million births in the 1990s has found more evidence that there's a link between autism and the mother's age at conception.
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Study confirms link between maternal age and autism (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Women over 40 are nearly twice as likely to give birth to an autistic child than a mother under 30, researchers said Monday in a study that found more evidence of links between autism and maternal age.
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