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Extractions: Synopsis of Services Publications Resources Selected Articles from School Leader As the millennium approaches, New Jersey's public schools find themselves in the throes of a facilities crisis. Growth in student enrollment, expanding technological needs and aging facilities are problems faced by school districts across the state. These problems are not unique to any geographical region or class of school system; they affect special needs, urban, suburban and rural communities alike. Calendar year 1998 saw school boards in New Jersey bring 75 bond referenda before the public for a total of $893.919 million in proposed spending, 45 of which were approved. These numbers are expected to increase in 1999 as school facility needs continue to grow. As more bond referenda are brought before the public, boards of education continue to wrestle with the issue of how to best support their passage. The techniques used by local boards to spark interest and increase voter turnout are as widespread as they are innovative. However, the board's authority to communicate with the voters is not without legal limitations. The purpose of this article is to set forth the legal constraints under which boards of education must operate in addressing their facility needs through passage of a bond referendum. Expenditure of Public Funds The primary constraint on boards of education is in their ability to expend public funds in support of a bond referendum. The leading case on this issue, Citizens to
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Extractions: All K-3 children receive special safety instruction. Petermanns programs include its Walk-Ride-Walk and the Be Cool, Follow the Rules programs. All programs have colorful childrens handouts like the Back to School Safely Activity book and Welcome to Safetyville coloring book. These programs also include handouts for parents as well as videos for PTA meetings to show parents their part in safe school transportation. Petermann also provides safety instruction to 4 th to 12 th graders, teaching these older students the principles of being a safe rider, including the ten rules of school bus safety. Parents, please do your part to help us keep your children safe while riding the school bus. Review these important safety rules with your children. Click here to read the Petermann safety rules and to learn about other safety programs available to PTOs and PTAs.
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Extractions: Election nightany election nightis a time to celebrate. While we have been on the losing end of more election results than we care to remember, we continue to celebrate the system. This election night, as we join the nation in watching the returns roll across the screen, a few thoughts that appear to be political truths come to mind. The returns on the transportation sales tax increase seen to prove again that just about anything with the word tax in it is all but doomed to failure. We are surprised that the referendum received as many yes votes as it did, although it was heavily funded. Ironically, it may have received even more support had some commuters not been tied up in traffic Tuesday evening. It was not an embarrassing loss, and the margin may play a role in future political planning. The majority seldom volunteers to approve tax increases, regardless of the reasons. We consider the outcome another victory for this theory, not for those who do not want roads. A small segment immediately claimed the outcome was a victory for smart growth, which in this county means dirt roads. We strongly disagree. We could point out that Congressman Frank Wolf defeated a self-styled smart growth candidate and leave it at that. This would not be fair. The candidate lost because he was under-funded and unknown. It is doubtful that most voters even knew of his philosophy. For any chance, candidates who oppose incumbents such as Wolf and John Warner must be serious candidates. The sales tax increase was defeated by those who do not support any additional taxes, especially under these economic conditions. If there was a coalition among conservatives and a limited number of elitist no-growthers, it will not last beyond the night.
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Extractions: However, it may take more than that for the Board to leave a legacy of penny-pinching. We would remind the Supervisors that they have made a bad habit of handing out grants and love offerings to their friends for years now, and never batted an eye in spending $10,000,000 on property without a clue of what would be done with it. The full spending record is clear, and we will leave it to those who oppose them at the polls to produce a documented accounting. Chairman York himself commented this week that we just cannot afford to spend that $5,000. Supervisor Jim Burton, who was known to pinch a few pennies before he joined in the spending frenzy on the board, joined York on fixing the blame elsewhere as usual. In the case of the county budget problems, they said, the state is to blame. There is always a target for our board to aim their fingers.
Extractions: new jersey department of education OPTIMUM Software Helps Students Prepare for New Jersey Elementary School Proficiency Assessment ESPA. Business Editors CINCINNATI(BUSINESS WIRE)Jan. 14, 2002 While spring may seem far away, to New Jersey teachers and students, an April deadline looms. Thousands of New Jersey teachers and millions of students are diligently preparing for New Jerseys Elementary School Proficiency Assessment (ESPA) tests, which will be administered April 29 - May 3, 2002. Now New Jersey students, teachers and parents can add another tool to their test preparation repertoire. OPTIMUM(R) for ESPA is an interactive CD-ROM that helps students prepare for state assessment tests by providing sample tests and questions in specific subject areas aligned with New Jersey Department of Education guidelines. OPTIMUM for ESPA CD-ROMs cover fourth grade language arts literacy, math, science and fifth grade social studies. An eighth grade (GEPA) test preparation tool is in development. Teachers and schools can purchase OPTIMUM in single units ($29.95), Lab Packs of 5 or Site Licenses for 30. Special fundraising discounts and incentives are available for PTAs and PTOs. The ESPA is a diagnostic tool that tells teachers and parents how well students are progressing in obtaining the skills and knowledge required under New Jerseys rigorous academic standards. Additionally, New Jersey students are required to pass the state-mandated, eleventh-grade High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA) test before graduating from high school. As schools are often ranked by how their students perform, many devote copious time to annual test preparation. OPTIMUM software is a valuable resource that can help teachers identify students academic weaknesses and ensure they get specialized help.
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Extractions: Scripps Howard News Service The name "PTA" may conjure up images of moms working closely with schools, carnivals and other money-raising efforts, and of close relationships between parents and those who teach their children. Increasingly, that image comes not from PTAs, but from "PTOs" or Parent Teacher Organizations, independent parent groups that choose to organize at schools without any affiliation to the national Parent Teacher Association. Why the change? Parent activists are finding an increasing divide between the purposes of their state and national PTA leaders and their own objectives. And they're therefore withdrawing their memberships and forming PTOs. Since 1966, PTA membership has dropped from 12 million to 6.6 million, even as student enrollment has risen from 31 million to 52 million. In response to budgetary cutbacks, the PTA raised its dues a few years ago and 400,000 members dropped their membership. This spring, parents in 22 school districts in Utah dropped out. In some states, PTA membership has dropped as low as six percent. Two reasons for these departures seem to dominate, and the national PTA appears unwilling to address either.
Extractions: Send a Letter to the Editor Since the publication of "A Nation at Risk" in 1983, Americans have become increasingly alarmed about the dismal results and soaring costs of their public schools. No group of citizens has a closer view of these problems or a more immediate stake in addressing them than the parents of the country's 48 million schoolchildren. Here and there, parents have won minor battles to influence curricula or oust mediocre school-board members. But as individuals, parents are no match for the forces that favor the status quo. The mission of the PTA has always been to "work on behalf of the best interests of all children on issues that affect their health, education, and welfare" and "to encourage parent involvement." With almost seven million members, the PTA offers great potential for promoting parental involvement in the educational welfare of children. But in the 1990s, that mission requires of the PTA something it has been unwilling to do: demand accountability for performance and spending at every level of the educational system. Local Control Decades ago, parents had significant influence over their neighborhood schools. Over the years, however, school districts consolidated, teachers and administrators came to see themselves as credentialed professionals, and state laws standardized educational practices and curricula. Today, many parents are less likely to get involved in their children's educational environment. Nevertheless, the impetus for reform will have to come from parents active at the grass roots.
Extractions: Book Description Endorsements Class Use and other Permissions . For more information, send e-mail to permissions@pupress.princeton.edu This file is also available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format INTRODUCTION Alan Wolfe I After a long period during which the minds of most Americans turned to other matters, questions of education are now very much a central concern to them, both as parents and as citizens. Many of the issues that have begun to dominate the news and the speeches of political candidates have a long history behind them, such as school discipline, testing, character education, and issues of income and racial inequality. Accompanying them, however, has been a concern with school choice that suggests a departure from previous debates. Whether hailed as a needed kick in the pants or condemned as a radical attack on public schooling, school choice is a new terrain involving new ideas, new figures, new alignments, and new solutions. Because it is so controversial an idea, school choice has generated an impassioned debate. A good deal of that debate involves questions of effectiveness. Scholars on different sides of the issue challenge one another's methodologies, findings, and, alas, motives. That is, except perhaps for motives, as it should be. Eventually the dust will settle, the statistical evidence will point one way or another, or perhaps both, and minds will (or will not) be made up. But it is also important to remember that questions of effectiveness are not the only questions raised by a greater emphasis on parental choice. Ideas about choice, like ideas about education throughout all of American history, touch on fundamental questions of our public philosophy: the kind of people we want to be, the requirements for economic and racial equality, the nature of the institutions we wish to see flourish, and our ideas about private and public character.
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Extractions: Gahanna-Jefferson Public Schools Treasurer Julio Valladares said he is hoping to improve PTA financial procedures to prevent any future embezzling incidents. After discovering the alleged embezzling of more than $14,000 from the Goshen Lane Elementary School PTA fund, Valladares said he hopes to offer PTA officials advice on good money management and financial record-keeping. "In light of the Goshen Lane embezzling incident, I want to provide some financial workshops and record-keeping information to all PTAs and PTOs in the district," Valladares said. "We would set up rules and procedures for the treasurers to follow, and give them the opportunity to provide financial reports to the district on a yearly basis." PTA treasurer Beth Huddleston Fisher is being investigated by the Gahanna Police Department for allegedly embezzling more than $14,000 from the Goshen Lane account over the past three years. Gahanna Police Lt. Jeffrey Spence said Tuesday that Fisher has not yet been charged, because detectives still are sifting through bank and financial records and evidence collected through a search warrant, executed three weeks ago at Fisher's home.
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Extractions: in entire NodeWorks Directory in Society in Organizations in Education in PTA in ++ Councils Top Society Organizations Education ... PTA Councils A PTA council is a group of local PTA units working together to coordinate the efforts of those units. The role of a PTA council is to provide advocacy training, support, coordinate, facilitate, and serve the needs of ... [ MORE (KCKS) Kansas City, Kansas Council of PTA Dates, President's Roundtable, Council officers name/address and PTA links for parent and student help in Kansas. 16th District PTA Lexington, KY - covering the 55 schools in the Fayette County: who, what and when are answered here. 32nd District PTA Contra Costa County, CA - resources with training workshops for 122 PTA units and 6 councils. AAPS PTO Council Ann Arbor, Michigan. General district information for board members, along with PTO meetings, minutes, goal and objectives. ABC Council PTA A California Council resource with PTA links, legislative updates, and various PTA sample forms for viewing and download. Accomack County Council of PTAs PTA leadership, Council resources, and training for local PTA units in Virginia.
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Extractions: Appendix D PARENTS SURVEY RESULTS B. VERBATIM COMMENTS The narrative comments below reflect the perceptions and opinions of parent survey respondents. I feel that FBISD schools are giving good education to all children. I wish them best wishes and will do a good job for the coming years. I am extremely unhappy with Missouri City Middle School. There are many differences in that school and First Colony Middle School. There are many services not offered at Missouri City Middle School. Some of the teachers are not teaching the students. My son did no science project, because no information was given. The students know the teachers that don't care and are discouraged by them. There are skills my son should know by the seventh grade he is not being taught. A large number of students are behind in their education. I have tried working with the teachers to help my son, they don't care (some). There is no program for students at Missouri City Middle School. Teacher styles need to be modified to meet the needs of the students. The main concern should be the students. They are not being prepared for their futures to succeed. Overall I believe FBISD to be a good place for a child to receive an education. Unfortunately gangs, drugs and violence cannot be totally eradicated. That is unrealistic. However, D.A.R.E. type programs may be helpful in middle and high school. Why does Missouri City middle school have no track?
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