WEAC Study of Superintendents view of No Child Left Behind
- 80% of superintendents do not believe their districts will meet the AYP goal of all students scoring proficient or advanced by 2013
So it sounds to me like the superintendents;
a) think their teachers are so bad that they can’t teach students how to read or add
b) think the students are so bad that no teacher would ever be able to instruct them
c) think that a child should not be required to be able to read or do math
“School superintendents have been working under the burden of this law for five years now,” WASDA Executive Director Miles Turner said. “And what they now know is this is a plan in which failure was inevitable.”
I get it now…they didn’t like the law and therefore created the outcome that they expected.
"I personally find the word 'alien' offensive when applied to individuals, especially to children. An alien to me is someone from out of space."
"'Illegal,' I can live with, but I like 'undocumented' better."
I guess Mrs. Wilson never looked up the word alien in the dictionary, well I did and here it is care of www.m-w.com:
Main Entry: alien
Pronunciation: 'A-lE-&n, 'Al-y&n
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin alienus, from alius
1 a : belonging or relating to another person, place, or thing : STRANGE
b : relating, belonging, or owing allegiance to another country or government : FOREIGN
c : EXOTIC 2 : differing in nature or character typically to the point of incompatibility
alien
Function: noun
1 : a person of another family, race, or nation
2 : a foreign-born resident who has not been naturalized and is still a subject or citizen of a foreign country; broadly : a foreign-born citizen
3 : EXTRATERRESTRIAL
4 : EXOTIC
If people are from another place and/or nation they are alien. Then if they are here illegally, that would be without papers for those in Miami Dade county, they would be ILLEGAL ALIENS!!!
From the Tennessee Center for Policy Research: Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”
I would like to encourage everyone from Caledonia to sign on to this petition.
RUSD needs to be accountable for its continued inaction in creating better schools while maintaining good budgeting. RUSD has failed and it is time for communities to take back our schools but in order to do so we must understand the financial impact.
The petition is simple, here is what it says:
We, the undersigned residents of Caledonia, wish to have the Village of Caledonia trustees authorize a feasibility study to explore all the fiscal impacts of creating an independent school district for the residents of Caledonia.
That is it in total!
Please click the link below and sign the petition.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Rep. Jason Fields
February 21, 2007 Phone: (608) 266-3756
STATEMENT FROM REP. FIELDS REGARDING SICK LEAVE
Assembly Democrats Follow Long Standing Rule on Vote
MADISON – Recently State Representative Jason Fields (D-Milwaukee) and other legislators debated Assembly Bill 31, relating to eliminating sick leave for elected officials.
“The procedural vote on Tuesday to suspend the rules and vote on AB 31 had nothing to do with the policy of sick leave. Parties, both Democrats and Republicans, traditionally stick together on procedural votes. Normal legislative procedure does not allow for a vote on passage of a bill on the same day it is taken up, the Assembly rules had to be suspended to do so. Assembly Democrats did not delay anything. We simply voted against suspending the legislature’s long established rules to rush the bill to a vote.”
“Furthermore, I don’t know what all the urgency is about. This bill does not have an effect until the NEXT legislative session. The Assembly has time to fully debate the bill. As a matter of fact, the best product was not before the body on Tuesday. There were several amendments drafted – by both parties – to make changes to AB 31. There is no need to fast track it.”
Legislators do not earn vacation time or personal time. They accrue sick time at approximately 65% of what other state employees do. However, no clear system for reporting sick days exists in the legislature.
“Doing away with sick leave, as AB 31 proposes, does not fully address the issue. The problem is an unclear policy of reporting sick leave, so if we want to fix the problem we should fix the reporting system. Something Democrats are already working on.”
Just how dumb does Mr. Fields think Wisconsinites are? The time to act on this legislation is now!!
Democrats wish to push this off so that their constituents will forget about the whole thing.
Mr. Fields tip his hand a bit too much in saying “Doing away with sick leave, as AB 31 proposes, does not fully address the issue. The problem is an unclear policy of reporting sick leave, so if we want to fix the problem we should fix the reporting system. Something Democrats are already working on” the implication here is that Democrats are put together a bill that will bring up their accrual of sick time to match what other state employees have and to put in place a way of tracking these “sick days.”
Anyone who knows one of these State politicians will tell you they have a lot of time off…why would they need sick time?
Last week’s country was really easy now wasn’t it?!?!
It was Italy of course!!
This week the country is so uniquely shaped that I would find it hard that you would not get it…but if you don’t please don’t let it get you hot under the collar.
I’d rate this one a 3 out of 10.
The Republican State Assembly was blocked by Democrats today as the assembly was ready to pass a bill that would eliminate accrued sick time for politicians.
The Democratic Senate wasn’t any better than their Assembly colleagues by saying that the bill would not go to a vote in the Senate!!
Essentially the State Democrats are telling the people of Wisconsin that their well-being is more important than ours…how many of you are allowed to accumulate sick-time indefinitely to be paid out as cash at some future date.
Here is the JS Online article: Sick leave is staying
To be honest when I read the summary from the IPCC I missed this portion too but thanks to Pete Du Pont, former Governor of Delaware and chairman of the National Center for Policy Analysis, I was able to look it up and was surprised that the IPCC did not even address this phenomenon!!
“The IPCC does not explain why from 1940 to 1975, while carbon dioxide emissions were rising, global temperatures were falling,”
Here is Pete Du Pont’s article that appears in the Wall Street Journal: Plus Ça (Climate) Change
Which of these compounds would reduce global warming the most by removing it from the air?
- Nitrogen (N2)
- Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC’s)
- Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
- Water Vapor (H20)
That is right ladies and gentlemen. As we have been cleaning up the environment buy buying more fuel efficient cars and mandating cleaner energy production we have been putting more and more H2O in the atmosphere!!
CO2 only contributes 10% to global warming while Water Vapor contributes 38%.
So which is truly a danger?
These are a few must reads:
The Boston Globe: Irreconcilable positions: support troops, oppose war
By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist February 18, 2007
WHAT DOES IT mean to support the troops but oppose the cause they fight for?
No loyal Colts fan rooted for Indianapolis to lose the Super Bowl. No investor buys 100 shares of Google in the hope that Google's stock will tank. No one who applauds firefighters for their courage and education wants a four-alarm blaze to burn out of control.
Yet there is no end of Americans who insist they "support" US troops in Iraq but want the war those troops are fighting to end in defeat. The two positions are irreconcilable. You cannot logically or honorably curse the war as an immoral neocon disaster or a Halliburton oil grab or "a fraud . . . cooked up in Texas," yet bless the troops who are waging it. Continued…
LA Times: Redefining 'black'
Obama's candidacy spotlights the divide between native black culture and African immigrants.
By Louis Chude-SokeiFebruary 18, 2007
ALTHOUGH NOT quite able to pass for white, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been able to pass for African American. He is biracial, but not white; black, but not African American; American but not African. What has entranced the country more than his somewhat vague policies is Obama's challenge to conventional racial and cultural categories.
Among African Americans, discussions about his racial identity typically vacillate between the ideologically charged options of "black" versus "not black enough" or between "black" and "black, but not like us." Continued...
I recently watched “An Inconvenient Truth” and have to say it was one hell of a dog and pony show! If it wasn’t for the fact that I have a scientific background I could have been swayed.
I’m going to ignore the glaring lies that actually came out of Al Gore’s mouth, the funniest one being that the end of communism was due to bipartisan cooperation, and I’ll focus on a graph that Al used. I found a similar graph on line at the Woods Hole Research Center web site:
Now Al Gore looked at this graphic representation and made a faulty assumption: CO2 levels cause temperature change.
I’ll admit when I looked at the graph my first thought is “Thank God we are raising temperatures! Look what is in store for us if we don’t!!” I mean with over 400,000 years of documented evidence to back it up you could claim that the next ice age is around the corner. Oh yeah they’ve hysterically claimed that before too!
But when I really looked at the graph I noticed something remarkable… there is no lag. What I mean is that there is an instantaneous relationship between temperature and CO2…so how do we know that CO2 is causing temperature increases and it is not the other way around?
An article written by Robert Essenhigh, Professor of Energy Conservation at Ohio State University, Does CO2 really drive global warming?, discusses these two options:
"Case 1: CO2 drives the temperature as is currently mostly frequently asserted; and
Case 2: Temperature drives the CO2 levels."
He concluded that temperature drives CO2 not the other way around.
Global Warming is real. It is going on as you read this. The IPCC was right in concluding that there is nothing man can do to stop this from occurring. That is where the hype ends.
Global Warming is a natural event and as we have seen (Katrina, the Indian Ocean Tidal wave, Tornados, Droughts) Mother Nature is in control.
Very powerful article from today’s Opinion Journal:
Awaiting the Dishonor Roll
Congress "supports the troops" while emboldening the enemy.
Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:01 a.m. EST
Congress has rarely been distinguished by its moral courage. But even grading on a curve, we can only describe this week's House debate on a vote of no-confidence in the mission in Iraq as one of the most shameful moments in the institution's history.
On present course, the Members will vote on Friday to approve a resolution that does nothing to remove American troops from harm's way in Iraq but that will do substantial damage to their morale and that of their Iraqi allies while emboldening the enemy. The only real question is how many Republicans will also participate in this disgrace in the mistaken belief that their votes will put some distance between themselves and the war most of them voted to authorize in 2002.
The motion at issue is plainly dishonest, in that exquisitely Congressional way of trying to have it both ways. (We reprint the text nearby.) The resolution purports to "support" the troops even as it disapproves of their mission. It praises their "bravery," while opposing the additional forces that both President Bush and General David Petreaus, the new commanding general in Iraq, say are vital to accomplishing that mission. And it claims to want to "protect" the troops even as its practical impact will be to encourage Iraqi insurgents to believe that every roadside bomb brings them closer to their goal.
Continued…
Here is the old symbol:
And here is the new one:
If you ask me I think the new one has too much information for a warning sign!
Last weeks country had quite a few people scratching their heads. Only reason mkfolks knew the answer is she has been looking for a vacation spot!
Last week was Trinidad and Tobago!
This week, since I am traveling, I thought I’d make things easy for everyone…this is rated a 1 out of 10.
Al has mentioned that he was considering this run in his last book as well as a number of times on his radio program…of which only 5 people bought his book and only 9 people listen to his radio program…so I know that this is quite a shock to the other 14 people who even know who he is.
:)
From Reuters today: Rising seas threaten Britain's best-loved beaches
Wow I didn’t realize that the waters surrounding Great Britain was rising! Oh that’s right they aren’t!
The “article” starts off very official like: “Some of Britain's best loved beaches and coastline, from Golden Cap in Dorset to Formby Sands in Lancashire, are under threat from erosion and flooding, the National Trust said on Tuesday.”
But then we get to the heart of the matter and the bias that has now pervaded the media: “Rising sea levels could damage hundreds of miles of the English and Welsh coast over the next 100 years, according to a study commissioned by the conservation group.”
Next 100 years?!? Can they tell me what the water levels are going to be in 5 years? 3 years? Next year?
Since they can not why are we reporting this tripe as though it is real news?
Article should have been titled “If sea levels rise, Britain’s best-loved beaches threatened: study says”
