| 11 Lincoln Public Schools fail to meet federal standards
Eleven Lincoln Public Schools failed to meet federal No Child Left Behind targets for the second year in a row last year, a number that district officials say is likely to keep increasing."We will see more and more of our schools and more and more schools across the state," Marilyn Moore, LPS associate superintendent for instruction, told the Lincoln Board of Education Tuesday in an update on the federal accountability law.The Nebraska Department of Education plans to release the statewide numbers Monday. .
Education advocate takes on new role
To make change as a member of the Longview School Board, Ted Thomas has been an advocate for change at the state and federal levels. It's from those levels, after all, that most school funding comes. "Goals and vision at local level depend on state's ablity to deliver resources," said Thomas, who has served on the Longview School Board and in Washington State School Directors’ Association for more than 10 years. Next year Thomas will take his service to a new level as the president of WSSDA, which represents 1,482 school board members statewide. His swearing-in ceremony took place Nov. 17 in Seattle during the association's annual conference. As president, Thomas will continue communicate with the state's board of education and federal legislators. He will help to educate new school board members and lobby for changes in the Legislature.
Experts say principals not prepared for today's schools
John Warren's job as principal at Northwest Laurens Elementary School comes with a list of duties a mile long. Lead. Manage. Mediate. Discipline. Plan. Perform. Succeed. "The school business is dynamic and changing," said Warren, 51, an educator for 20 years. "To anybody just getting into it now, it can be overwhelming." While there is a strong supply of school leaders in the pipeline, many principals in schools now and coming up through the ranks aren't prepared for the work it takes to lead 21st century schools, a study released this month by the Southern Regional Education Board says. Since 2002, the Atlanta-based group has studied what progress its 16 member states, including Georgia, have made to better prepare their principals for success.
Harlem takes on university in battle of town versus gown
It looked like a battle of the slogans. On either side of the campus square stood imposing library buildings bearing the names of Homer, Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato and the boast "By royal charter in the reign of George II". Gathered in the middle was a group of 200 protesters carrying their own competing signs: "Stop Columbia!", "Harlem not for sale!", "Say no to eminent domain!" The protesters had huddled on a rainy Saturday around a 10ft statue of Alma Mater - the mother of learning - confronted by the mother of all neighbourhood disputes. They had marched from America's most famous black neighbourhood, Harlem, to the centre of one of the world's pre-eminent universities, Columbia, in what amounts to the ultimate clash of town versus gown. That clash comes to a head this week: by next Monday the city's planning authority must decide whether or not to allow the redevelopment of 17 acres in west Harlem and let Columbia go ahead with a massive expansion of its campus that would cost it $7bn (£3.4bn) over the next 25 years.
Primaries merger plan tension
EDUCATION Minister David Bartlett yesterday apologised for failing to tell parents he planned to relocate Bridgewater High to Bridgewater Primary, forcing primary students to Green Point Primary next year. Yesterday nearly 200 angry parents lashed out at a public meeting held at Bridgewater Primary.Parents and children handed out pamphlets emblazoned with slogans "Why my school", "We will not be moved" and "Save our school". They said they would fight for their small school of about 200 students. On Tuesday students at Bridgewater Primary received a letter from principal Carolyn Brown saying students would have to move to make way for high school students who lost their school in a $3 million, deliberately lit fire last month. Parents expressed outrage at "back-door" plans being made without community consultation.
Man Hit Crossing Street In Pacific Beach
A 24-year-old man was seriously injured when a car hit him while he was crossing the street in Pacific Beach. The car hit him Sunday night as he was walking across Grand Avenue at Gresham Street. The man was taken to a local hospital for treatment of head injuries and lacerations to his back and arms. The driver, a 25-year-old man, stopped after hitting the pedestrian. Police said he was not driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. .
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More than 100 monks march in Myanmar
More than 100 Buddhist monks marched peacefully Wednesday in a northern Myanmar town noted for its defiance of the country's military rulers, the first large protest since the junta violently crushed a wave anti-government demonstrations. The monks marched for nearly an hour in the town of Pakokku, chanting a Buddhist prayer that has come to be associated with the pro-democracy cause. They did not carry signs or shout slogans, but their action was clearly in defiance of the military government, as one monk spelled out in a radio interview. .
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