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If you want to make enemies, try to change something. -- Woodrow Wilson
One man with courage makes a majority. -- Andrew Jackson

NYSUT RETIREE TELLS TAXPAYERS TO WAKE UP!
Teacher Contracts: Restoring the Balance
Still Tinkering

I have a dream! That within 10 years we will become a Nation of Teachers, with every feasible K-12 lesson, homework assignment and test beamed into every home over the Internet. That all citizens will have on-demand access to all the knowledge and skills required for a basic, sound education, to enlarge their own learning and expedite their children's learning. That we will have 20 teachers for every student, not 1 teacher for every 20 students. -- Jerry Moore.
See, THE 21st CENTURY STUDENT

Topic	Posts	Pages	Last Post	Last Poster
Scotia-Glenville Community & Schools Includes National Education News	22089	1240	07-24-08 12:16 am	Jerry Moore
More Education News & Commentary For Registered Users Only • Click to Register	1913	161	07-20-08 10:29 pm	Jerry Moore
Lifetime Earnings Calculator Forum Vensim Model	27	11	03-21-08 10:40 pm	publius
System Announcements	6	7	12-06-00 8:54 pm	Jerry Moore - Scotia
Personal	132	12	06-13-08 12:34 pm	Jerry Moore

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The Great Escape:
Parents use test scores to pick out new houses

THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS' DIRTY LITTLE SECRET
Quality of education falls as teacher pay increases
Grade-level Centers for S-G?
NY Teacher Salaries #1 in Nation
Teacher contracts contribute to layoffs
Online students do it their way
A Tale of Two Stillwater Teacher Contracts
Grouping Kids by Age Should Have
Vanished With the Little Red Schoolhouse
School budgets burdened by teacher salary increases
The Great School Budget Scam

The Truth About Teacher Salaries
with Lifetime Earnings Calculator
Lifetime Earnings Calculator Forum

What Is a "Public School"?
Teacher and Administrator Salaries in New York
S-G Middle School Waste of Money

A Case Study in Student Sex Abuse
By the Orange County, NY Grand Jury

THE ROOT CAUSE OF EDUCATION MEDIOCRITY
S-G Class Size & Budget Politics
Will education spending bring results?
S-G Administrator Contract
Here's a $100,000 Teacher
Hudson seniors caught in teacher-district crossfire

'One size fits all' learning axed in shake-up

EARTH TO CHICAGO TEACHERS . . .
A PRIMER ON TEACHER CONTRACTS
PART ONE, PART TWO and PART THREE
Teachers walk the line
As incentive to improve, gauge each teacher's value
Addressing Teachers
Teachers Discard The Union Label
Saratoga Springs teachers' raises more than billed
No raises for most teachers in Sweetwater
SED report finds NY charter schools getting the job done
System Dynamics in K-12 Education
Student problems begin at home
Students Rate Their Teachers Online
NY education professionals who blame students for poor middle school
results, and claim, after 4 years of testing, they are doing all they can,
need read about
KIPP Schools
AND GET TO WORK!
2002 National Reading Results
You've got to read:
Obstacles to Education Quality
Capital Region School Budget Results
1953 Schenectady Teacher Salaries
PERvERTING TESTS

Individual help of teacherï¿½s red pencil now sadly missing

OLD SCHOOLS, NEW CHALLENGES:
Will more money alone produce better results?
Charter school turns heads with test scores
Gazette Editor Clayman Discusses MyShortPencil
Wasting Time and Money in Schools
and What We Can All Do about It
Florida lawmakers consider paying teachers $100,000
(with local salary analysis)

UTAH BOARD PROPOSES THAT STUDENT ADVANCEMENT
BE BASED ON COMPETENCY RATHER THAN SEAT TIME
Stronger Families by Jeb Bush
Welch to train NYC Principals
Parent's advice to students:
DON'T GUESS ON STATE EXAMS
ROD PAIGE: MORE SPENDING IS NOT THE ANSWER
Ohio teachers to pay 10% of salary for pensions
Commissioner Mills on Administration Costs & Teacher Salaries
Worry less about dropouts', more about learning
Plan to increase state school aid draws criticism from Pataki
Don't blame schools, it's the parents' fault

Success driven by a singular focus
No class-size reduction. No spending increase. No random drug testing.
Just hard-nosed work.
S-G AP American History students enamored with the sex life of Jefferson
and average AP scores might want to read this article.
The community needs to see what $4,710 per student buys in other places.
Would you pay $4.85 for a gallon of gas, $3,000 for car insurance, $.87 for
a postage stamp, $8.50 for milk, while other places pay regular prices?

A Hard Lesson in Hunger
Helping Your Child Succeed In School
Why No Child Left Behind is important to America
Limit School Searches
He prefers dresses, but his principal says no
Education's self-esteem hoax
Parents vote for taking polls out of schools
Schools need to show they are using existing resources effectively
A PLEA TO TRUST SCHOOLS
Public School Inc. - Charter Schools Ignite Education Reform
Inflated Grades Used to Motivate Students
Artificially high grades fail Metro students
Kids were right all along: High school is obsolete
The ABC's of Healthy Schools
Get Off to a Good Start With Back-to-School Basics
The Value Of Great Expectations
States of Prosperity (or Not)
Class Size Effects in School Systems Around the World
Letting Parents Decide
Scores Soar at D.C. School With Same-Sex Classes
No class-size reduction. No spending increase. No random drug testing. How about that!
Utah Teachers Accept No-Cost-Of-Living-Increase Contract
Wasteful & Oppressive Administrative Costs
GA School Allows Parents to Check Kids' School Performance Online
Driven out by too-large school tax hikes

quote:
[Sen. Chuck Schumer and New York teacher union leaders] cover up that we need reform by only talking about money. Show us the results with the money you've already spent. It's results that matter, not expenditures.

-- Rod Paige, U.S. Secretary of Education

See the rest of the story here

Verbal Judo with Educators
Math the Saxon Way
Gym classes focus on shaping up in Utah
Sign-up Online to become an Organ Donor!
New State Performance Index is a Fraud
Part 2 on the Performance Index Fraud
The Truth About Class Size
Eric Wants To Know What Teachers Should Earn
A contrary view: The $100,000 Teacher

Making better major decisions mind map
Parent on-line resources for English language skills

No freedom loving people can delegate the responsibility for deciding the essence of education without sacrificing the essence of freedom.

District Telephone Numbers

High School	382-1231	H.S. Homework Line	386-4235
H.S. Guidance	382-1251	Transportation	382-1291
Jr. High	382-1263	Jr. High Guidance	382-1275
Glendaal	382-1201	Business office	382-1222
Glen-Worden	346-0469	Pupil Services	382-1285
Lincoln	382-1296	Athletics & P.E.	382-1237
Sacandaga	382-1282	Communications	386-4343
Superintendent's office	382-1215	Super's Fax	386-4336

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