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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Books I Liked in 2011

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I knew it! You were just dying to know what books I really enjoyed this past year. My favorite piece of adult fiction that I read was City...
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Monday, December 19, 2011

Testing and the Emperor's New Clothes

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This history of testing in New York State is both funny and terrifying. . . and it could just as well be Michigan. 10 Years of Assessing S...
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Sunday, December 18, 2011

$1.4 Million Dollars: School Medicaid Revenue

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One of the items that I missed in the action-packed Ann Arbor school board meeting last week is Pat Green's announcement that she had fo...
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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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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Time and Time Again

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Lately my son has been getting a lot of bar and bat mitzvah invitations. A bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah (bar mitzvah for a boy, bat mitzvah fo...
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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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Evaluating your Child for Special Education Services

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Do you suspect that your child may need special education services? If your child has not been officially diagnosed, but you have a feeling ...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Roundup

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It's about time that I showed a little love to some of the other school districts in the county. Saline is considering all day kinderg...
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Monday, November 28, 2011

Avoiding Football Cuts: The Back Story

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The Title IX blog (which has had a link on my sidebar blogroll for some time) had earlier analyzed Ann Arbor's first round of proposed ...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Pilgrims and Indians

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True, this post is not really about Pilgrims. Growing up in an east coast town where the first European settlers arrived in 1630, and where ...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Reprise: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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Astute readers of this blog will know that I've already written, at length, about the book that I bought my youngest son a couple of yea...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

Administrative Cuts: Easy to Be Hard

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Recently, I had two conversations with people who are actively involved in the school district about the district's administrative costs...
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Budget Ideas: Forums and Beyond

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I was looking at my cell phone bill, and the bill was higher than I expected, because the "usage" was higher than expected. Uh oh....
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