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But nothing in the plan suggests a peace plan or a truce.

The plan presents a four-step action logic: engage communities, help train and recruit teachers, help schools get facilities, and replicate successful schools in the neighborhoods it has targeted. It doesn’t even try to sketch out what a good school system would look like, how these schools would relate to one another, whether the dedicated teachers that the plan talks about are to be employed as charter school teachers on employment-at-will contracts or whether they will have the economic status and employment security of public school teachers.

It fails to acknowledge that charter schools are inherently parasitic; they require a healthy host school district to survive. And given the general advice to keep your friends close and your enemies closer if I were in the superintendent’s office or on the LAUSD board I’d be talking frequently with the GPSN folks.

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The Daily News | City Schools: $944,000 in grants start targeted after-school program City Schools: $944,000 in grants start targeted after-school program

BATAVIA An Extended School Day program launching this fall at the Batavia City Schools is intended to help 50 middle and high school students handle stressful situations with appropriate social and emotional reactions.

The program will be paired with another prevention program launching next year district-wide with a $212,748 State Education Department grant. Molly Corey said Thursday that $944,000 will be invested into skills development over the next five years.

By working with Partners in Restorative Initiatives, a Rochester-based training organization, BCSD hopes to improve on the school culture framework built through the school’s Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support program.

“We are adding onto (PBIS), enhancing it with new lessons and fresh ideas to be a positive culture and learning environment,” Corey said.

Training would pass down from teachers to students, with students eventually being able to model behaviors and use previous lessons to evaluate how they handle situations.

NYSED has awarded more than $24 million in grants to school districts for expanded behavioral assistance programs for the 2016-17 school year, with Batavia the lone district in the GLOW region selected.

In announcing the awards, State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said extended school day programs are meant to increase student achievement and foster extracurricular enrichment activities.

“It’s a simple proposition when students are safe and engaged in productive afterschool activities, they’re going to enjoy school more and do better,” Elia said. “The grants we’re awarding today will go a long way towards protecting and enriching our children.”

In Batavia, Corey said the idea is to share the benefits students receive from participating in sports, music and clubs with students that often aren’t taking part in extra-curricular activities.

Students, who will be invited for involvement because of recognized struggles with absenteeism, discipline referrals and problems offering a respectful attitude, will meet for programming three days a week.

It will be the farthest thing from detention.

“It’s meant to be a very proactive extension of the school day,” Corey said, “to appeal to them like (other extra-curriculars), to develop in them the sense of identity I’m involved in my school too.”

Gisborne’s Sunrise Foundation Announces New
Trustee

The Sunrise Foundation’s newest
trustee, Lilian Tangaere Baldwin, is passionate about
whanau, marae and hapu development and believes that the
Sunrise Foundation has the potential to positively support
the smaller communities on the East Coast north of
Gisborne.

Lilian said that Sunrise offers an opportunity
for Ngati Porou whanau, marae, hapu, and organisations to
consider becoming active contributors in making responsible
charitable choices that can have an enduring impact in their
own communities.

“The most compelling aspect of Sunrise
is that unlike national charities all the money raised here
is kept right here in Tairawhiti. “Lilian’s extensive background and knowledge within iwi
and the smaller coastal communities in our region will bring
a fresh insight and perspective to Sunrise.”

Lilian has
also joined Sunrise’s Grants Committee which administers
the granting of funds to local charities and organisations. I’m looking forward to
working closely with Lilian and the rest of the Grants
Committee on our second funding round which opens
shortly.”

The Sunrise Foundation, a community endowment
foundation, was launched by Sir Stephen Tindall in October
2014. Funds are
invested and each year enough is retained to ensure that
endowments grow in line with inflation, the surplus
investment income is available as grants to charities and
organisations in the local community (Gisborne
District).

Glenda added that “At Sunrise we are all
about capital preservation, meaning that any donations we
receive will keep on supporting our local charities and
organisations forever. The second funding
round applications are open from 1st July to 19th August
2016.

Mr John Clarke, Sunrise Foundation Chairman,
believes that the community foundation endowment model is
poised to make a real difference in the Gisborne District.

The group was comprised of corporate and family foundations, members of the Association for Family and Corporate Foundation in Colombia (AFE), who co-hosted the event with the Council on Foundations. Though American philanthropy had a substantial temporal head start on most of the world, our day with the Colombians showed me that some of the most exciting work being done in philanthropy is as new to us as it is to them and creates a space where we have much to learn from each other.

The panel on social innovation, which covered topics from social entrepreneurship to socially-responsible investment, grabbed the attention of the room. The growing popularity especially among younger cohorts of social entrepreneurship, socially responsible investing, and other types of social innovation seems remarkably parallel between our two countries.

The delegation was also eager to learn more about how they could engage their elected officials to think about philanthropy when writing new laws and establishing new regulations. Some families do their giving through their corporate foundations for cultural and societal reasons.

One unique aspect to Colombian philanthropy which I found both interesting and sobering is the necessity to participate in the “peace process” currently underway in Colombia (a reference to the hopeful conclusion of a long conflict between the government and FARC rebel group). AFE is a key partner in the SDG Philanthropy Platform, a multi-party collaborative effort to achieve and measure philanthropy’s role in the new goals.

It was on this theme of commonality and shared goals that Colombian Ambassador Juan Carlos Pinzon, AFE executive director Carolina Suarez, and Council president Vikki Spruill closed out the day.

A survey conducted by the club showed that 77 percent of students at the school have been in a car while the driver was texting.

The group also received a scholarship to attend last month’s Spring Youth Forum in Centralia, where six members presented the group’s distracted driving campaign.

The group has a dozen members, and have also provided facts about cigarettes and drugs, helped local law enforcement agencies at a prescription drug take back event and evaluated local retailers’ advertising displays and healthy food options. Please take a second to review our community guidelinesCommunity guidelines

Excerpts of plan from Great Public Schools Now In this excerpt from its report, the group Great Public Schools Now identifies 10 neighborhoods where it wants to start new public schools. In this excerpt from its report, the group Great Public Schools Now identifies 10 neighborhoods where it wants to start new public schools.

A controversial group that began with the mission of rapidly expanding charter schools in Los Angeles has named its board of directors, come out with a plan and publicly defined its mission as supporting new, successful public schools of any kind.

The board for Great Public Schools Now mostly includes faces and groups that are familiar in the education reform wars of L.A., including representatives from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation.

Unified will work with the nonprofit to create superior schools.

“They have some very good schools some magnet schools and traditional schools that are performing well for kids,” he said, then added, “and they have other schools that don’t,” even after repeated turnaround efforts.

One goal is to help new schools find classroom space which is often difficult for charters.

The nonprofit also said it will fund efforts to recruit and train high-quality teachers and principals.

In the near future, the group also plans to distribute start-up grants for the operation of new schools. He is a founding board member of Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, a charter school management organization. Unified, shrinking its budget as it struggles with long-term pension and healthcare obligations.

“To just say we’re going to continue to have failing schools because we can’t afford the district to lose more money, that’s immoral,” Flores said.

On this point, the new plan minces no words: “More than 160,000 low-income students and English Language Learners are enrolled in schools whose performance is so dismal that 80% of students are learning below grade level.”

The other board members are:

Marc Sternberg, a former New York City principal and senior district official who now heads the K-12 efforts of the Walton Family Foundation, one of the nation’s leading incubators of charter schools.

Gateway School District was recently selected to receive a $20,000 grant to improve its computer coding instruction and STEAM-based learning.

The district received the grant through the Allegheny Intermediate Unit Center for Creativity.

The computer coding instruction improvements will be phase two of the district’s plan to ramp up STEAM learning in the schools, specifically the elementary schools.

Phase one was implemented last year and put a amaker spacea in each elementary school where students could do STEAM projects.

aThe grant is going to have each and every student in our K-4 elementary be exposed to coding,a said Dana Wentroble, STEAM coordinator for the district.

Short said the computer coding instruction will teach students about problem-solving, working in a group and how things work, all while incorporating traditional subjects and lessons.

Wentroble said it’s important to incorporate STEAM at the elementary level so students can learn such material easier.

Wentroble said students already get excited about working in the amaker spacesa and that keeps them interested in the subject.

Wentroble said the district will be working over the summer to have the coding instruction in place by the beginning of next school year.

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Through the work of Lincoln NeighborWorks, a housing complex will rise from the spot at Ninth and D streets where Zion Church burned a decade ago.

NeighborWorks will unveil plans for the seven-home complex for moderate to low-income homeowners at an upcoming Historic Preservation Commission meeting and take them to the city-county Planning Commission in early July.

NeighborWorks, which helps revitalize older neighborhoods, also has a Woods Foundation grant to help pay for a community organizer to work in the area, helping encourage and grow local leadership, said Shawn Ryba, NeighborWorks chief operating officer.

NeighborWorks is one of two groups looking at revitalization projects south of downtown, generally A to M, Ninth to 17th streets.

Another group,A funded by the Lincoln Community Foundation and a broad group of businesses and individuals, is also interested in improving the area and will offer its final report this summer.

St. But local residents objected to the name, in part because they had no input into choosing it.

The eventual goal of this group is to form a stakeholder-governed, geographically based, professionally staffed community development organization to provide leadership to implement its plan, according to the progress report.

Establishing a community development organizationA assures the work on making the community better does not end with the report, said Teresa Ingram, marketing coordinator for the Lincoln Community Foundation.

NeighborWorks, which has been working for decades in Lincoln neighborhoods using a mix of federal, state and private funds, has been looking at the Ninth and D streets block for about 18 months.

“We are excited that they had the vision to do this, and we are excited about the opportunities that could come from it,” he said.

Neighborhood residents need to start thinking about what revitalization means and how to make sure it is not deplorable, he said.

NeighborWorks believes a community organizer is important because development should not be just bricks and mortar, but also people and leadership, he said.

NeighborWorks has had at least four meetings with neighbors, bringing in the city parks and recreation director, area police captain and city planning director for conversation and brainstorming.

That allows neighborhood leaders to meet city leaders and gives city leaders input from people who live in the area, Ryba said.

One of the community leaders, Amanda Huckins, is working to start a renters union in the area, where more than 90 percent of the residents rent, said, Pat Anderson-Sifuentez, a community organizer for NeighborWorks.

NeighborWorks is also working to get grant funding so people can weatherize and improve the exteriors of their homes in an area where some of the housing stock is 100 years old, said Anderson-Sifuentez.

“That kind of help goes a long way in improving neighborhoods,a she said.

The Legacy Foundation is pleased to invite you to a reception in honor of Pam Moore planned for Wednesday, June 22, from 4 to 6 p.m.

As the first executive director of Legacy, Mooreas experience in development work, fundraising, and planned giving proved valuable to the fledgling organization.A Known for her flexible and collaborativeA approach, Moore worked with many area groups endeavoring to address community issues.A

Moore was responsible for Legacy becoming National Standards-certified through theA Councils on Foundations, which signifies a commitment to the highest business practices of policies and accountability.A Legacy is also member of theA Kansas Association of Community Foundations, a collection of more than 60 local foundations in Kansas.

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