Friday Open Thread
Good article from Edutopia about helping students evaluate online research. I think it's written for teachers but I think it might be useful info for parents as well.
We will have to wait and see what happens with the denial of Washington State's NCLB waiver by Sec'y Duncan. Frankly, I think it is likely to be a ripple rather than a wave of problems.
What's on your mind?
We will have to wait and see what happens with the denial of Washington State's NCLB waiver by Sec'y Duncan. Frankly, I think it is likely to be a ripple rather than a wave of problems.
What's on your mind?
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I received assurances that parents would receive notice of this and be told that they can "opt-out". Of course this is after the fact so the data will already be imported into ConnectEDU's database. Deletion is not an easy process.
Has any parent outside of Madison (and HIMS I think) ever received this notice?
The decision was made by a panel of principals representing the Washington Association of Secondary School Principals (WASSP), a component of the Association of Washington School Principals (AWSP).
They are supposedly taken reviews until today - yeah right.
Sigh.
-Fedmom0f2
PDR
If you get it, could you contact me? I am specifically looking for next year's 3rd, 4th and 5th grade for the WP feeder schools - Bagley, Greenwood, Olympic View, Northgate and Broadview Thompson. I'm seattlemeyer at msn dot com.
Thanks!
I will send you the info if/when I get it. I suspect SPS will tell me they need months to provide it even though it is no doubt readily available.
PDR
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/charter-school-debate-new-york
Why doesn't LEV's web page indicate that they have received $4M to promote charter schools in Washington State?
- a participant
The misinformation is in the OSPI WISM Report. Have you seen it? Didn't think so.
Discrimination potential seen in 'big data' use
A White House review of how the government and private sector use large sets of data has found that such information could be used to discriminate against Americans on issues such as housing and employment even as it makes their lives easier in many ways
Does Obama know what the heck his pal Arne is doing?
Sign those ConnectEDU opt-out forms folks, and tells SPS you want the account deleted.
-so curious
-proceduralist
http://educationvoters.org/2014/04/23/a-world-of-opportunities/
-no charters
CT
CT
I have absolutely no idea what Word verification is wanting me to type- those are letters?
Perhaps 3rd time will be the charm.
--proceduralist
SolvayGirl
In short, he didn't disclose anything about the principal appointment process. It appears to be completely random and ad hoc. There is no provision for community input.
If there is a community that wants to offer input on the selection of their principal, they will have to negotiate it. I would suggest you start by speaking with the appointed principal and the executive director of schools for your region. That won't work, so the next step is to speak with the superintendent. He may offer you a deal in which the appointment is made as an "interim" appointment to be confirmed at the semester break of the principal's first year. You'll need to demand a formal process for that confirmation - one that includes your input. Otherwise it will happen automatically without any input from you. If that's acceptable to you, then good.
If that is not acceptable, then you're going to have a very challenging time getting anything more. You can try speaking to the Board - you can't ask them to interfere with the appointment, but you can ask them for a principal appointment policy and a transparent procedure. You can also warn them of your next step.
Your next step is to kick up a fuss in the press. Highlight in inequity of process and the total absence of any transparency or community input. It wouldn't hurt if you got some negative remarks about the principal from their previous school. These won't be hard to find, there is always someone who isn't happy with the principal. I would try to focus more on the inequity and apparent randomness of the process than on any specific concerns about individuals. Stress your willingness to have the appointed principal in the candidate pool.
PDR
Yes, I expected that the final compilation might not be ready, but they've obviously communicated preliminary enrollment totals to the schools. SPS chose not to provide even that information in response to my request and instead informed me that their non-response completed my request. While they may not have a compilation they want to release to the public, I find it hard to believe that they could not produce a detailed enrollment spreadsheet within a few minutes if someone like the Superintendent requested it rather than a mere citizen.
PDR
You could certainly ask for the data sent to principals in a followup request.
PDR
http://www.aei.org/article/education/k-12/obamas-lawless-ed-reform-push/?utm_source=today&utm_medium=paramount&utm_campaign=042814
-- Dan Dempsey