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Showing posts with label money. Show all posts
Showing posts with label money. Show all posts
Sunday, October 9, 2016

Who's In For Scholarships? Join Me At Rick's* Run For Kids!

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Next Saturday, October 15th, in the morning, you will find me at Rick's Run For Kids , doing a mixture of running and walking around be...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Understanding the Impact of the Governor's Budget Proposal on Michigan Schools

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Michigan Parents for Schools has a detailed summary of the Governor's budget proposal and its impact on Michigan schools. I'm incl...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

If Teaching Were A Sport...

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LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this TeachingCenter spoof by Key and Peele...if you are a fan of ESPN's SportsCenter you will recognize a lot of themes...
Sunday, June 7, 2015

Things I'm Reading about the State of Our State's Education

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The Best Piece of the Week goes to Lindsey Smith at Michigan Radio. Reporter’s Notebook: State needs to be more transparent about the sch...
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...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

It's A Zero-Sum Situation ($$$$$)

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People seem to appreciate knowing more about the context for the discussions about union-administration relations for the Ann Arbor Public S...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Guess Who's Evaluating Those Standardized Tests? (I Wish This Were a Joke!)

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From an ad on Craigslist : "The starting pay is $10.70 per hour." For that sum, I'm sure they are getting some highly skil...
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Monday, March 17, 2014

Ann Arbor Schools: Budget Meetings for This Year and Next

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2013-2014 Budget Needs Mid-Year Revisions For details, you can see Amy Biolchini's article . But here is the key point: as a result...
Sunday, December 29, 2013

Contemplating Donating to Schools, and My Other 2013 Ann Arbor Chronicle Posts

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I started writing for the Ann Arbor Chronicle , an important local online news source, earlier this year, in a column that appears approxima...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

School Finance: Can We Change Proposal A?

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This discussion took place in the comments section of this blog post . I thought it was worth sharing more widely. Many thanks to Steve Nort...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

iPad Technology in Schools: What's the Highest, Best Use?

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The other day, Amy Biolchini's story about the Chelsea Schools and their iPad problems caught my eye. In " Students evading securit...
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Sunday, November 3, 2013

Ann Arbor & Saline: Vote on Tuesday!

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If you're like me, the first reminder that there is an election on Tuesday came in a school email that reminded me that there is no scho...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Ann Arbor & Saline: Learn About Upcoming School Millage/Sinking Fund Requests

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Ann Arbor schools are hosting a brown bag lunch to discuss the proposed Sinking Fund vote : Noon to 1:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25: Brown ba...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Financing Michigan's Schools--Or Not

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I am taking this directly from an email alert from Tri-County Alliance for Public Education, which is an advocacy group in Wayne, Oakland, a...
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Sunday, October 6, 2013

At Haisley School: A Playground for All

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Over on the west side of Ann Arbor, Haisley School has some new additions to the playground. Haisley has several children who use wheelchair...
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Monday, September 9, 2013

School Security, Sinking Funds, & Sinking Hearts

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Amy Biolchini reported on two important articles about school security in the past couple of weeks. Yes, Alice Street is a small street ...
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