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Showing posts with label legal issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label legal issues. Show all posts
Sunday, February 28, 2016

Ypsilanti History: The Desegregation of Ypsilanti Schools

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While it's still Black History Month I thought I would feature this interesting blog (and history of Ypsilanti schools) that I recently ...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Reading--The Legislature Is Too Interested, the State Supreme Court Is Not Interested Enough

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Third Grade Reading Bill Passes House Education Committee--What's In It? The "third grade reading bill," as it is being cal...
Sunday, May 31, 2015

Labor Update: Unfair Labor Practices and the Michigan Employment Relations Commission Process

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But first--one important PSA--the Ann Arbor schools updated their web site this weekend. It was long planned because the web site has been r...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Discovering (and Remembering) My First Grade Teacher, Mrs. Delfosse

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My first grade teacher, Doris Delfosse, died recently. My mom sent me her obituary . (Thanks Mom!) There were some things in it that I kne...
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Saturday, March 7, 2015

Bringing Guns to School: Legal, Yes; OK, No; Kids Can't, Teachers Can't, But Others Can

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By now you know that on Thursday night, March 5th, a man named Joshua Wade--grandson of a former deputy superintendent in the Ann Arbor Pub...
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Sunday, January 4, 2015

Louisiana Lesson #1: Plessy v Ferguson

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I spent part of my winter break in New Orleans. And during a cemetery tour, I saw the grave of Homer Plessy. Plessy, as in the famous ...
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Saturday, March 22, 2014

Love, Michigan (=)

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It's a New Day in Michigan. Read Judge Bernard Friedman's excellent ruling here . My friends' daughter holds her moms' w...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Michigan ACLU Says AAPS Plan to Charge 7th Hour Tuition is Illegal

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Today, in a letter to the Ann Arbor Public Schools Board of Education and Superintendent Pat Green, the ACLU said that charging for seventh ...
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Monday, May 20, 2013

American Public School History: Quiz Results

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So here are the quiz results. With the answers. How did you do? The first public school in our country was Boston Latin, founded in 1...
Friday, May 3, 2013

More on the Ypsilanti/Willow Run (YCS) Teacher Situation

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Update 5/4/2013 9 p.m.: From the Ypsilanti Community Schools facebook page, from an anonymous Willow Run teacher: I am a Willow Run tea...
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