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Showing posts with label equity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label equity. Show all posts
Saturday, October 15, 2016

WeRoc Questionnaires For AAPS School Board Candidates

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I was asked by WeRoc to post the AAPS school board candidates' answers to their questions. After thinking about it for a while, I've...
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Sunday, February 23, 2014

W.E.B Du Bois: Of The Color Line, the Class Line, and a Boyhood in Western Massachusetts

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Photo by Ruth Kraut, 2010 To close out Black History Month,* I thought I'd share some thoughts I had about a visit I made a few sum...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

It Should Be An Interesting Year!

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The Willow Run/Ypsilanti consolidation passed, and so did the accompanying millage. (In Willow Run, the consolidation millage passed did not...
Friday, May 25, 2012

Title IX in My Life--And Yours

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A few weeks ago I was talking to my daughter's track coach about the SHARP Title IX conference that took place in Ann Arbor. Yes, she s...
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Monday, March 12, 2012

Testing Tales

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I'm hoping to do a series about testing--talking about the MEAP, the MAP, the ACT, the SAT, the MME, etc. But it's such a vast subje...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Is It Time for AAPS to Raise Top Administrative Salaries?

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Tonight, the Ann Arbor school board is being asked to raise the salaries of three of the district's top administrators. The salaries t...
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Monday, December 12, 2011

Proud Music

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I spent much of this evening at the Ann Arbor Open winter band and orchestra concert. For middle schoolers, they sounded pretty good! The ...
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Area Teens: Let's Make It Better Now

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EMU is having a contest around LGBT Bullying issues. Money is involved. Yes, a $500 prize! Plus--it looks fun! EMU's first annual advo...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

Athletics in AAPS: Safety, Title IX, Process

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I think this message from Liz Margolis and the Ann Arbor Public Schools is so important that I am sharing it in its entirety. I suggest tha...
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Down for the Count

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Yup, it's back...count day for schools. Really, there is greater count day and lesser count day...proportionally, fall count day "c...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

MICHIGAN: Granholm vetoes legislative spending plan for federal education dollars (2010-10-12)

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MICHIGAN: Granholm vetoes legislative spending plan for federal education dollars (2010-10-12)  Why don't we plan well? Who loses? Kid...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

To I.B. or Not to I.B., That Is the Question

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I've been reading that International Baccalaureate programs may be coming to Washtenaw County. I wrote about the programs before here . ...
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

The Online Learning Question

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In my last post I expressed some concerns about online learning. John Sowash asked why, and I started to respond, but my answer got too lon...
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Saturday Night's Fun: Skyline Soccer, MHSAA, and Title IX

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 My Saturday Night The Skyline women's soccer team made it to the District 2 regionals and I went to see my daughter's friend play. ...
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Monday, March 15, 2010

Desegregation Outcomes

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The primary focus of the 1985 reorganization was integrating the schools--in particular, integrating the black and white populations. The As...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Privatization, Take II: The Bids Are In

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Well, AAPS has received the transportation and custodial privatization bids. You can read a summary of the board discussion on annarbor.com ...
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