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What's News
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Detroit board rejects massive
school closing plan
The Detroit schools board has rejected a financial savings
plan to close dozens of underutilized and run-down school buildings,
The Detroit News reports. To read more, click
here.
The Missouri state school board has decided to strip
accreditation from the St. Louis school district and take control
of the struggling system, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. To read more, click
here.
A 17-year-old senior was fatally stabbed outside the gymnasium of
Washington Preparatory High School in Los Angeles, The Los
Angeles Times reports. To read more, click
here.
The fast-growing Clark County (Nev.) district is looking to
buy the Las Vegas campus of a Catholic high school that is moving to the
suburbs, The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. To read more, click
here.
The northeast section of the University of Central Florida
campus in Orlando is in the midst of a construction boom, The
Orlando Sentinel reports. To read more, click
here.
Want more of the latest headlines in education?
Click here.
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Feedback
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Presidential
library
Last week, in light of the opposition by some at Southern
Methodist University to a possible George W. Bush presidential library
and policy institute on campus, we asked what readers thought about
whether a university campus was the appropriate site for such a
facility. Here is some of your feedback:
- "A university is a place of learning, and the information that will
be available for study would be easily available," says an administrator
from Oklahoma. "It is not a popularity contest."
Click here to see more
reader feedback
This week, in an effort to boost student performance, some
states and school districts are lengthening the day at struggling
schools. Do you think this is an effective strategy for improving
education?
A. Yes. Additional instructional time
will give students more time to absorb lessons and to prepare for the
tests that determine whether a school is succeeding or failing.
B. No. Lengthening the school day will
overextend budgets, fatigue already struggling students, and burn out
overworked teachers.
C. Other.
What do you think?
E-mail your answer and any other comments HERE
and we'll publish them in next week's Schoolhouse Beat.
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Have You Entered Your Projects in the 2007 Educational
Interiors Showcase?
There is still time to enter American School & University's 17th annual
competition honoring education interiors excellence. With AS&U's
Educational Interiors Showcase, you gain more national exposure for you
and your project. Don't miss this chance to be featured in the August
2007 issue of American School & University and on AS&U's newly remodeled
SchoolDesigns.com Web site.
Click here to e-mail Molly
Roudebush or call her at (913) 967-1959. Or click
here for more information about the Educational Interiors
Showcase.
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From the Magazine
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Now online from
American School & University:
Imagine the first day of the new college year--students hauling boxes
and TVs as they prepare to move into their new home. Now, imagine the
panic if these students and their parents were to arrive at an empty,
desolate room. It's unlikely that colleges and universities would assign
students to a residence hall room with no furniture, but a space
outfitted with ugly, uncomfortable and worn-out furnishings might be
just as objectionable to a student looking to establish a home away from
home....
Click here to
read the entire article, "Room to Grow."
ALSO:
The use of surveillance cameras in schools is not new, but just about
everything involved with the technology and how it's used is new.
Surveillance equipment once was a precautionary system, relegated to the
corner, where it gathered dust until an incident took place....Using a
video system this way may help reduce some types of incidents, but it is
not the most effective way to prevent trouble, identify weaknesses in a
system and improve operations....
Click Here
to read the entire article, "Seeing It Through."
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Construction Corner
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DeKalb County, Ga., plans
green high school
The DeKalb County (Ga.) district has broken ground on a
$36.9 million high school that will try to seek certification as an
environmentally friendly facility, The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution says. To read more, click
here.
Brown University in Providence, R.I., is building a
$30 million fitness center that will open in 2010, The Brown Daily
Herald says. To
read more, click here.
The Mount Clemens (Mich.) school district is planning to
build a community center with more than 10,000 square feet that is to
include a gymnasium, a computer center and meeting rooms, The Detroit
Free Press says. To read more, click
here.
To view the web's most extensive portfolio
of outstanding education construction projects, visit the new and
improved SchoolDesigns.com.
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Bonds & Levies
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Pleasantville (N.Y.)
district passes bond by one vote
The Pleasantville (N.Y.) district has won voter approval
of a $37.3 million referendum to expand its high school and make other
improvements, The Westchester County Journal-News says. To read more, click
here.
The Seneca (Mo.) R-7 District is seeking approval next month
of a $9 million bond proposal to pay for a new high school, The
Neosho Daily News says. To read more, click
here.
Voters in the Mustang (Okla.) district will go to the polls
on April 3 to decide the fate of a $13 million bond package, The
Mustang News says. To read more, click
here.
Voters in Upper Dublin, Pa., have approved a $119 million
plan to build a new high school, The Philadelphia Inquirer says.
To read more, click
here.
For more news on school bonds and referendums,
visit American School & University's Daily News Headlines.
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Stats Corner
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Spending
disparities
- $33,805: Annual per-pupil expenditure in the Sea Isle City
(N.J.) district.
- $12,098: Average per-pupil expenditure in New
Jersey.
- $7,426: Annual per-pupil expenditure in the Guttenberg
(N.J.) district.
Source: New Jersey Department of Education and The New York
Times
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Calendar
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Upcoming
events:
March 28-30: 12th annual K-12 School Networking
Conference, sponsored by the Consortium for School Networking, San
Francisco
March 29-April 2: National Association of Elementary
School Principals, 86th annual convention, Seattle
March
31-April 4: Our Power and Responsibility to Shape Education,
a joint meeting of the National
Association of Student Personnel Administrators, and College Student
Educators International, Orlando, Fla.
April 10-13: National Catholic
Education Association, 104th annual convention, Baltimore
For more upcoming education-related events and
conferences, visit our online
calendar.
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