Saturday, August 11, 2012
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Suggestion Box EPSD: Registration
Dr. Carlisle and Staff,
Please tell Englewood parents and parents new to Englewood where to register for school. They really do need to know.
Englewood Residents: Register your children for school year 2012 - 2013 at Grieco School. 80 Durie Avenue across the street from Winton White Stadiium. The Registrar is a bit gruff. Do not allow her to deter you. Make sure you have all of your ID, several proofs of residence and the child's birth certificate, because they do not make it easy for you.
How are the children?
Please tell Englewood parents and parents new to Englewood where to register for school. They really do need to know.
Englewood Residents: Register your children for school year 2012 - 2013 at Grieco School. 80 Durie Avenue across the street from Winton White Stadiium. The Registrar is a bit gruff. Do not allow her to deter you. Make sure you have all of your ID, several proofs of residence and the child's birth certificate, because they do not make it easy for you.
How are the children?
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Petition Closing: Preparing to take it to Trenton
Citizens 4 Public Education and Englewood
Residents United Are a Force that Cannot and Will
Not Be Ignored. We Have Demanded
Accountability from the Englewood School Board
and Justice for Our Children. We Shall be Granted
Our Redress! Englewood, Make No Mistake, the
Struggle is Just Beginning! STAND!
Become part of the solution. Bad things happen to
children when good people do nothing but watch.
What good is that?
On Thursday, the Petition for a Forensic Audit on the Englewood Board of Education will officially close. Friday the electronic copy will be sent to the Comptroller and to Commissioner Cerf. The hard copy will be delivered in person to the School Ethics Commission.
Children all over the world are standing for themselves. Do not allow them to stand alone!
How are the children?
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Stop Whimpering And Fight with The Power of Your Vote!
Englewood Residents, Secretaries and Paraprofessionals:
Please stop panicking. All is not lost. You are not a victim. Unemployment will pay you more than Delta T. If you despair you will do exactly what this corrupt Board of Education wants. Now is the time to sit down and do some reading and stop waiting for others to do it for you.
The Board is wrong and steeped in lies and we have the documentation. They are trying to cover for themselves. Do not beg them. Stand up for yourself and the children that you serve. I have listened to the testimonials of the many parents long before you became frightened and started to attend board meetings. The parents of the children you nurtured spoke up for you. They do not want strangers with their children.
It is time now for the real work to begin. No one said it would be easy. They are depending on you to run away and lick your wounds in fear. They have lied and cheated to more than you. Now it is time for you to burn up the phone lines with calls to state senators, legislators, the Education Law Center, the Governor, Commissioner Cerf, The US Department of civil rights and you name it. Write some letters.
Making a stand is not easy. You are not alone. Become part of your own salvation. File for unemployment and get ready for the battle of your lives. The whole country is filled with people just like you. The few who have been bought in the dark offices and conference rooms only appear to have gained something.
Come to the Board meeting tonight armed with your vote. We have not been defeated. The enemy has simply been revealed for all to see. The war has only just begun.
Become part of the struggle so that you may enjoy the triumph without shame.
The Board is wrong and steeped in lies and we have the documentation. They are trying to cover for themselves. Do not beg them. Stand up for yourself and the children that you serve. I have listened to the testimonials of the many parents long before you became frightened and started to attend board meetings. The parents of the children you nurtured spoke up for you. They do not want strangers with their children.
It is time now for the real work to begin. No one said it would be easy. They are depending on you to run away and lick your wounds in fear. They have lied and cheated to more than you. Now it is time for you to burn up the phone lines with calls to state senators, legislators, the Education Law Center, the Governor, Commissioner Cerf, The US Department of civil rights and you name it. Write some letters.
Making a stand is not easy. You are not alone. Become part of your own salvation. File for unemployment and get ready for the battle of your lives. The whole country is filled with people just like you. The few who have been bought in the dark offices and conference rooms only appear to have gained something.
Come to the Board meeting tonight armed with your vote. We have not been defeated. The enemy has simply been revealed for all to see. The war has only just begun.
Become part of the struggle so that you may enjoy the triumph without shame.
How are the children?
Monday, July 30, 2012
What The Law Requires For Title I Districts!!!
The No Child Left Behind Act makes unprecedented promises to parents!
Some of those provisions affect all schools. The rest apply to the 93 percent of school districts that get Title I poverty aid (The Englewood Public School District gets Title 1 poverty aid. This is NOT part of No Child Left Behind that has been waived for any state.)
States must publish report cards showing the Math and English performance of all students, breaking out results for all racial and ethnic groups, poor students, disabled students and limited-English students. The report cards must include qualifications of teachers, incliuding a comparison of teachers in high-poverty and low-poverty schools.
School districts must notify parents if their child attends a "persistently dangerous" school and give parents the choice to move their child to a safer school in the district.
States must report progress in ensuring that poor and minority students are not disproportionately assigned to teachers who are inexperienced, unqualified or out of field.
Based on tests, states must provide diagnostic reports for every student.
School districts must notify parents at least annually about the timing of certain activities and give parents a chance to opt their kids out. Those activities include the collection of student information to be used for marketing purposes and any invasive physical exam that is not considered an emergency or essential to protecting public health.
School districts must give any parent of a secondary school student the option of requiring written consent before the student's information is given to military recruiters.
States that receive federal aid to help homeless children must seek to notify parents or guardians of their rights. Those include the choice of schools children are eligible to attend and a promise that homeless children are not to be stigmatized by school personnel.
Title I districts must also:
Notify parents of their right to transfer their child if the current school has not made adequate yearly progress for two straight years. Low-income parents must be offered tutoring for their child if a school has not met progress goals for three years, and districts must help parents get information about the qualifications and services of tutors. (Simply writing a letter to parents saying that, "we nailed it," is not sufficient or even proper.)
Inform parents of children in Title I schools that they have the right to information about the qualifications of their children's teachers.
Give parents of children with limited English skills a package of information if Title I money is spent on programs for such students.
Give parents clear notice if their child has been taught for at least four straight weeks by a teacher who is not highly qualified. (Now this one is indeed a joke. We had a psychology major teaching Math. Careful assessment of grades will surely reveal that too many of this teacher's students did not pass the NJAsk standardized test in 8th grade for Math.)
Hold meetings at convenient times for parents and give an explanation of the curriculum, tests used and the achievement levels students are expected to meet.
(Reprinted from the Associated Press 2004...extracted from NCLB law.)
States must publish report cards showing the Math and English performance of all students, breaking out results for all racial and ethnic groups, poor students, disabled students and limited-English students. The report cards must include qualifications of teachers, incliuding a comparison of teachers in high-poverty and low-poverty schools.
School districts must notify parents if their child attends a "persistently dangerous" school and give parents the choice to move their child to a safer school in the district.
States must report progress in ensuring that poor and minority students are not disproportionately assigned to teachers who are inexperienced, unqualified or out of field.
Based on tests, states must provide diagnostic reports for every student.
School districts must notify parents at least annually about the timing of certain activities and give parents a chance to opt their kids out. Those activities include the collection of student information to be used for marketing purposes and any invasive physical exam that is not considered an emergency or essential to protecting public health.
School districts must give any parent of a secondary school student the option of requiring written consent before the student's information is given to military recruiters.
States that receive federal aid to help homeless children must seek to notify parents or guardians of their rights. Those include the choice of schools children are eligible to attend and a promise that homeless children are not to be stigmatized by school personnel.
Title I districts must also:
Notify parents of their right to transfer their child if the current school has not made adequate yearly progress for two straight years. Low-income parents must be offered tutoring for their child if a school has not met progress goals for three years, and districts must help parents get information about the qualifications and services of tutors. (Simply writing a letter to parents saying that, "we nailed it," is not sufficient or even proper.)
Inform parents of children in Title I schools that they have the right to information about the qualifications of their children's teachers.
Give parents of children with limited English skills a package of information if Title I money is spent on programs for such students.
Give parents clear notice if their child has been taught for at least four straight weeks by a teacher who is not highly qualified. (Now this one is indeed a joke. We had a psychology major teaching Math. Careful assessment of grades will surely reveal that too many of this teacher's students did not pass the NJAsk standardized test in 8th grade for Math.)
Hold meetings at convenient times for parents and give an explanation of the curriculum, tests used and the achievement levels students are expected to meet.
(Reprinted from the Associated Press 2004...extracted from NCLB law.)
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