Tuesday Morning News Roundup Chicago middle school principal dies during root canal Tribune
Georgette Watson, 46, of the 3600 block of Greenleaf Street, Skokie, was pronounced dead at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center at 11:08 a.m. Monday, a Cook County medical examiner's office spokesman said. [Brentano]
Scared of high school? CPS has plan for 8th-graders Sun Times
Thousands of Chicago eighth-graders could receive as many as three weeks of orientation activities in their new high schools before opening day under a new program intended to ease the critical transition from eighth to ninth grade.
Private Takeover of L.A. Schools Gets Results NPR
Steve Barr, a 43-year-old California entrepreneur, founded an organization that runs 12 schools in the city that have managed to graduate 90 percent of their students, a significant improvement in L.A.'s toughest neighborhoods.
PLUS: A District Where No Two Schools Are Alike.
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Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 9:26 AM
Tuesday Morning News Roundup
All that money for a high school transition program would be better spent on adequately staffing the high schools. That program will be rendered all but worthless when the freshmen (and other students, and teachers) are subjected to countless program changes during the first few weeks of school, as administrators scramble to cover classes when positions get cut. By the time classes are "leveled," after the 20th day, large numbers of students have had classes changed in their core subjects 3, 4, 5 or more times.
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 12:59 PM
Brentano Principal Dies
I've known Ms. Watson for a couple of years. I met her thru CPS when she needed a website done for her school. She was so much fun to meet in person, super laid back, great personality, etc. I admired that she moved up from a teacher at Brentano to the Principal. I currently still manage their site, and this news was a complete shock to me. I had just met with her recently concerning the site, and we were going to do some upgrades early next year.
She will be dearly missed. My deepest sympathies to her family and the entire Brentano community.
She will be dearly missed. My deepest sympathies to her family and the entire Brentano community.
Sun Dec 23, 2007 at 9:42 AM
Tuesday Morning News Roundup
I know that CTU is looking at Green Dot schools, and I hope that they do so very carefully. The bottom line is that these schools are for-profit schools, and I distrust the profit-motive when it comes to education, no matter how idealistic its founder appears to be. I completely understand the resentment of the teacher NPR interviewed at the idea, because it always seems that these charters siphon off the more motivated students (and parents) from neighborhood schools, and dump the ones who don't make their school look good back to the neighborhood school.
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