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Guitarist, arranger, songwriter, producer, and perennial sideman Mick Ronson made his mark during glam rock's early-'70s heyday but worked consistently with frequent collaborators David Bowie and Ian Hunter until his death in 1993. From 1967-1968 he played with a hometown garage rock group, the Rats, in Hull. In 1969, he was discovered by fledgling folksinger and producer Mike Chapman, who asked him to join his recording band. From there he went on to collaborate with Bowie, beginning with Space Oddity in 1969 and lasting through 1973's Pin-Ups. He arranged "Changes," among other songs on Hunky Dory (1972), and was Bowie's flamboyant guitarist in the Spiders from Mars during the Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust (1972) album and tours. It has remained a mystery as to how much of Bowie's material Ronson wrote in exchange for "arrangement" credits, but his stamp is on some important records of the era: he co-produced Lou Reed's Transformer (RCA, 1972) with Bowie and briefly joined Mott the Hoople after working as an arranger on All the Young Dudes (1972). As glam rock faded, Ronson continued to work with Hunter in the Hunter Ronson Band, and as a songwriter, guitarist, and producer on Hunter's solo work.
He recorded two solo albums for Main Man, Slaughter on 10th Avenue (1974) and Play Don't Worry (1975). His identifiable wah-wah sound straddled genres outside his beloved glam and hard rock, from Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue to Morrissey's Your Arsenal (1992). Ronson consistently worked with divergent artists -- from Roger McGuinn and David Johansen to John Mellencamp ("Jack and Diane"). He and Hunter recorded YUI Orta in 1989 for Mercury, and in 1990 Ronson was diagnosed with cancer. He was reunited with Bowie for Black Tie White Noise (1993) and that same year appeared at a Freddie Mercury tribute concert with Hunter and Bowie. He made one final record with some help from his friends Hunter, Bowie, Chrissie Hynde, and Mellencamp, Heaven 'n Hull (Epic), which was released posthumously in 1994. Just Like This, a two-disc collection of unreleased material, followed in 1999, and Showtime, a collection of live material, arrived the next year. ~ Denise Sullivan~ Rovi


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June 27, 2019 Today many peoples who are fond of military history gathered in the Poltava Battle Museum to mark 310th anniversary of the battle of Poltava. For many visitors it was very interesting to meet for the first time those who are carried away by historical reenactment. Our local Great Northern war reenactor Mikhail Mellin and his colleague from Zaporizhzhya familiarized all spectators with typical commands that were used in the infantry units of the Charles XII's army and fired a few shots from 3-pound gun. After that Mrs. Natasha Bilan, who is a director of the museum, invited all guests to the museum when a few new exhibits including those that were recently delivered to the museum by SMB delegations were presented to the attenders. Some photos taken today in the museum you may browse below.
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The phrase "Tear it Down" was hastily sprayed in black paint across the base of the golden Joan of Arc statue on Decatur Street in the French Quarter sometime earlier this week. It has since been removed, with only the vaguest traces of the paint remaining.Now, wait a minute! This article is from last May, and the PJ Media article went up yesterday and doesn't mention that the defacing of the Joan of Arc monument predated the current uproar over the removal of Civil War monuments. But there was a "Take Em Down NOLA" movement at the time that — as the Times-Picayune tells us — aimed at the local Confederate monuments (and this group denies targeting the Joan).
The "Tear it Down" tag would seem to relate to the debate surrounding the city's ongoing removal of four Confederate monuments. But the statue of Joan of Arc, a 15th-century military leader, martyr and Catholic saint, hasn't been mentioned in the controversy to this point.
Anyway, who would spray paint "Tear It Down" on a Joan of Arc monument? Do you leap to assume that some idiot believes that Joan of Arc has to do with the Confederacy? Maybe that's how you have fun. At PJ Media, the author (Tom Knighton) does not assume it was ignorance about Joan of Arc. At the end of his piece he says:
It's also possible that this was the result of someone being intentionally ridiculous. After all, while removing statues of Confederate leaders is the big thing, there are also movements to remove a Thomas Jefferson monument from outside of Columbia University and a Teddy Roosevelt from outside of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. So maybe someone is just trolling these lunatics.Yes, that theory fits the facts better than the theory that some idiot thought it was a pro-Confederacy statue.
But it could also be anti-Catholic. Speaking of ignorance of American history, it's ignorant not to know that the KKK and other nationalists have been virulently anti-Catholic. Here's a Wikipedia article, "Anti-Catholicism in the United States."
Here's some KKK artwork from 1925:
You see the tear-it-down enthusiasm.
There are people who would want to take down a statue of a Catholic saint. Quite aside from the KKK, what about people who want the strict separation of religion and government? Why is there a religious monument in the public square?


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They're big, bold and beautiful—or at least wearing beautifully tailored suits. Prosperity preachers, selling you the finest in positive attitudes, living your dreams and making every day a Friday.
Not too long ago, my wife was feeling a bit down, and a super-nice lady whose kids go to the same school as our daughter gave her some books to encourage her. Funnily enough, they all happened to be prosperity theology books (which has led to some entertaining and positive discussion around the house).
Every so often we all stumble into prosperity theology, usually unwittingly. While occasionally you'll get a nugget of helpful truth (in the same way that you'll find some helpful things in your average self-help book), there's a lot of goofiness which can make for a fun night of "Joel Osteen or Fortune Cookie." So, how do you know if you're reading a book written by a prosperity preacher? Here are seven signs:
1. A bright shiny smile that looks like it belongs on a poster for a dentist office. For example:
The only exception? TD Jakes, but that's only because he seems incapable of smiling in a photograph (although he does smirk).
2. The title makes it clear someone is really important—and that someone is you.
God is Not Mad at You, Reposition Yourself, Your Best Life Now, Become a Better You, It's Your Time… I'm noticing a trend here. Someone's a pretty big deal, and apparently that someone is me.
I feel so much better now.
3. It's advice that could easily be confused with the message from a fortune cookie. Taste the highly processed encouragement:
"You may think there is a lot wrong with you, but there is also a lot right with you."1
"Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be"2
"Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation."3
"Sometimes you can tell what something is by what is isn't."4
I have no idea what that last one even means.
4. There's a proverb on the cover. Often something like Proverbs 10:22, "The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it"—but you're not likely to find Proverbs 18:11, "A rich man's wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall in his imagination."
5. Someone's caps lock got stuck. For example:
God has said to us, just as surely as He said to Isaac, "I WILL PERFORM in your life THE BLESSING of Abraham. I heal you! I prosper you! I create the conditions of Eden around you, and you will carry THE BLESSING to people everywhere you go!"5
I'm pretty sure Kenneth Copeland needs a new keyboard, he may have broken his in his excitement, what do you think? Also, what does that even mean?
6. It may or may not be trying to cast wicked spells. Remember, "It's our faith that activates the power of God."6
7. Seven is always the magic number. You can learn the seven steps to living your full potential, the seven keys to improving your life every day, and how to be happier seven days a week. Seven really is the magic number, isn't it?
So there you have it. The seven signs you're reading a book by a prosperity preacher. Wait—seven signs??


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Charges filed in wake of fatal crash in Fort Myers
A man remained in jail Tuesday following a fatal accident that involved a Cape Coral motorist.
Shannon Omar Mitchell, 27, of 3315 Edison Ave., Fort Myers, is being held at the Lee County Jail on charges tied to a two-vehicle crash last month on U.S. 41 that resulted in the death of his passenger.
Kyla Dion Nesmith, 40, of Fort Myers, was pronounced dead at the scene, officials reported.
The driver of the second vehicle, Paul Robert Jenkins, 42, of the Cape, sustained minor injuries.
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He is being held without bond.
At about 2:59 p.m. Nov. 6, Mitchell and Nesmith were northbound in a Chevrolet Cavalier when a Florida Highway Patrol trooper tried to initiate a traffic stop in the area of Broadway for illegally tinted windows. Mitchell failed to stop, continuing northbound at a high rate of speed, officials reported.
As the Chevrolet fled, the trooper discontinued the attempt to stop the vehicle.
Moments later, Mitchell lost control of the Chevrolet and crossed over the raised median of 41. The vehicle overturned onto the southbound lanes and struck a Toyota Tacoma, driven by Jenkins.
The Chevrolet came to a stop just south of Sanibel Boulevard.
Mitchell was transported to Lee Memorial Hospital with critical injuries.
Upon his release from the hospital Thursday, he was taken into custody and charged.
"This case remains under investigation, so no additional information will be released at this time," Lt. Gregory Bueno, a spokesman for the FHP, reported in a prepared statement released last week.
Mitchell has a court appearances scheduled for Jan. 2 and Jan. 8.


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This screen is accessed from the back-end Joomla! administrator panel. It is used to add or edit banner categories.
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Navigate to the the Banner Category Manager. To add a new Banner Category, click on the New icon in the toolbar. To edit an existing Banner Category, click on the Category's Name, or check the Category's checkbox and press the Edit icon in the toolbar.
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- Title. Enter the Title for this item.
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- Parent. The parent category of this category. With this option you can nest categories.
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- Permissions. Click this button to move to the category permission settings portion of the screen.
- Language. The language of the banner category.
- ID. The internal Joomla! ID number for the banner category. This is not configurable.
- Description. Optional description for this Banner Category. This description is just for your information and will not display on any page.
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- Image. Image for this Category. Image must be located in the folder "images/stories". You will not normally use an Image for a Banner Category, since it will not display on the page.
- Note. A comment or note that is only used for reference purposes. This is not displayed on any front-end pages of your Joomla! installation.
Metadata Options
- Meta Description. Optional text entered here will be added to the page HTML output and may be displayed in search engine results.
- Meta Keywords. Optional keywords to be used for displaying specific banners based on the content of the article being viewed. If the banner module parameter 'Search By Keyword' is set to 'Yes', banners whose keywords match the keywords entered for each article will display when that article is being viewed.
- Author. The author of this category. You can type any name here.
- Robots. This will be added to the page HTML output. Options are: Use Global, Index-Follow, No index-Follow, Index-No follow, No index-No follow, and Don't display robots tag. This is for automated search engine programs referred to as robots which are used to scan and index web pages for search engine websites such as Google.
- Created. Date and time the banner category was created.
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At the top right you will see the toolbar. Whether you selected to create a new category or edit an existing one will determine what toolbar buttons will be available.
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- Save & Close. Save your changes and return to the banner category manager screen.
- Save & New. Save your changes and create a new category.
- Save as Copy (Only available in the banner category edit screen). Save your changes to a copy of the current category.
- Cancel (Only available in the new banner category screen). Go back to the main screen of the banner category manager without saving the modifications you made.
- Close (Only available in the banner category edit screen). Go back to the main screen of the banner category manager without saving the modifications you made.
- Help. Opens this help screen.
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School Turnaround Push Still a Work in Progress
SIG seen a work in progress two years into program
The federal program providing billions of dollars to help states and districts close or remake some of their worst-performing schools remains a work in progress after two years, with more than 1,200 turnaround efforts under way but still no definitive verdict on its effectiveness.
The School Improvement Grant program, supercharged by a windfall of $3 billion under the federal economic-stimulus package in 2009, has jump-started aggressive moves by states and districts. To get their share of the SIG money, they had to quickly identify some of their most academically troubled schools, craft new teacher-evaluation systems, and carve out more time for instruction, among other steps.
Some schools and districts spent millions of dollars on outside experts and consultants. Others went through the politically ticklish process of replacing teachers and principals, while combating community skepticism and meeting the demands of district and state overseers.
It's not at all clear if the federal prescription can cure the most ailing schools and lead to long-term improvements, but preliminary student-achievement data for the program offer some promise. The U.S. Department of Education looked at about 700 of the schools in their second year of the program and found that a quarter of them posted double-digit gains in math during the 2010-11 school year. Another 20 percent showed similar progress in reading.
But a report last week by the Government Accountability Office, Congress' investigative arm, found that a number of states renewed grants for schools that didn't meet annual goals and said states need more Education Department guidance in making those decisions.
A collaborative reporting project drawing on the efforts of more than 20 news organizations and affiliated journalists paints a mixed picture of how the SIG program is playing out on the ground. The major findings show:
• States have pulled SIG money from at least a dozen schools that showed anemic progress on early indicators of success, such as teacher and student attendance, the Education Department says.
• Five schools in Pueblo City, Colo., have seen student performance sink even lower after awarding a $7.4 million grant to an outside provider.
• A plan for a new teacher-evaluation system in New York City led to a temporary loss in turnaround funding after city officials clashed with the local teachers' union.
• Schools nationwide, especially those in rural areas, are wrestling with personnel and leadership changes driven by the program's requirements, along with a mandate to add extra time to the instructional day.
Still, the SIG program's supporters can point to encouraging—though early—developments.
Education Week, the Education Writers Association, and The Hechinger Report partnered with 18 news outlets in 16 states to examine how $3 billion in federal School improvement Grants is being used in efforts to revitalize some of the nation's lowest-performing schools. In interviews with scores of teachers, students, researchers, and education officials at all levels of government, reporters set out to determine how the money is being spent and whether the changes the SIG program sparks are likely to last. For the complete series, visit the Turnaround Watch page.
In Louisville, Ky., a handful of long-troubled schools posted double-digit gains in state math scores after just one year in the program. An elementary school in an isolated corner of Colorado saw a 9-point spike in its state math scores and smaller gains in other subjects.
Other schools haven't seen big jumps in achievement but are beginning to glimpse a new school culture, including improved discipline and attendance. Some of the best early reviews come from students, who say their schools are calmer and more academically rigorous.
"I feel more safe, and I feel like I'm learning more. They are starting to have challenges for us," said Jasmine Dukes, a 7th grader at Friendship Preparatory Academy at Calverton, formerly Calverton Middle School, in Baltimore.
'Significant Movement'
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan also sees signs of recovery in schools across the country, even as he cautions that it's still too early to draw conclusions about the program's effectiveness.
"Big picture, there's really significant movement in a very short amount of time, which I think a lot of folks felt wasn't possible," Mr. Duncan said. But he doesn't expect overnight success: "This is really, really hard work; there's a reason the country took a pass on this for a couple of decades."
All of which argues for caution in assessing the program's effectiveness so far.
"There's evidence on both sides of the coin," said Robert Balfanz, the director of the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, and a leading researcher on school improvement. "This is not the Oldsmobile of comprehensive school reform. ... [This is] a souped-up model coming hard and fast and getting big changes quick. ... The big question is whether those changes are going to lead to improvement."
The current SIG program is a bolder version of a once-sleepy program created under the No Child Left Behind Act a decade ago to help states turn around their lowest-performing schools. In its original form, the program never topped $500 million in federal funding—less than 1 percent of current federal education spending overall.
But in 2009, federal lawmakers—in passing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and with little debate—poured an additional $3 billion into SIG. That sent districts scrambling for a share of the three-year competitive grants, worth up to $2 million annually to perennially struggling schools.
The cash came with new, tighter strings. Eligible schools—identified through a complex, multi-tiered process—are among what the Education Department often describes as a state's bottom 5 percent academically. Schools taking the money have to adopt one of four controversial improvement models.
In some cases, at least half of a school's teaching staff must be replaced. A school might be turned into a charter school—or shut down. And no matter which option is chosen, a school's principal must be removed, unless that person has been on the job for less than three years.
Federal officials defend that prescriptive approach. They say that, in the past, states had failed to pick rigorous turnaround options—such as taking over a school or turning it into a charter—when given a broader menu of choices.
"Schools literally got worse," said Secretary Duncan. "The children that need the most help, the majority of them, got less help than before. That was absolutely crazy to me; that's what I was fighting against" in overhauling the SIG program.
So far, the Education Department has examined results for about 700 of the 850 schools that joined the program in 2010-11. During the first year of the program, the proportion of students who were proficient in math or reading went up in roughly 60 percent of SIG schools, Mr. Duncan said.
But some state and local leaders still chafe at what they see as a heavy-handed federal approach.
"It's too restrictive. They mandated these models before they even researched them," said Keith Rheault, who served more than a decade as Nevada's superintendent of public instruction before retiring this month. "We're testing it out."
From the get-go, the program has been denounced on Capitol Hill as Exhibit A for those arguing against federal overreach in K-12 education. Congressional critics—Democrats and Republicans alike—assail what they see as arbitrary staffing requirements, a lack of options for rural schools, and a wobbly research base. The program is almost certain to get an extreme makeover, and its funding remains in jeopardy.
Still, most urban school district officials think the program has the potential to deliver lasting change to long-foundering schools, according to a survey by the Council of the Great City Schools, a group in Washington that represents the nation's large urban school districts.
Some state leaders are upbeat as well. "Overall, I'm optimistic and positive about the grants," said Mark Coscarella, the assistant director in the office of education improvement and innovation at the Michigan education department. "I think we've seen schools really take on the challenge of making some really important improvements."
Time Crunch
Schools have made big changes against a tight clock due to the program's genesis: the 2009 stimulus package, which sought to pump job-boosting federal money into the economy. The grants run for three years, but some school districts got their money just weeks before the start of the 2010-11 school year.
That left many districts with little time to find principals or teachers and sell the improvement measures to the community. A report last year by the GAO, criticized the federal Education Department for taking too long to process applications, giving districts and schools too little time to figure out the program's tricky framework.
Local school leaders say they are still recovering from the crunch.
"There's a lot to do in a short period of time," said Philip Yaccick, the principal of Weston Preparatory Academy, a charter school in Detroit, which received a $1.8 million SIG grant. "In an ordinary situation, there's a little more time to create the change, but then also [to] implement and solidify the change."
But federal officials defend the fast pace from both a job-creation and school turnaround standpoint.
"Our children had waited too long. We realized we should not—we could not—wait any longer," said Jason Snyder, a deputy assistant secretary in the Education Department's office of elementary and secondary education.
States have also grappled with whether to renew grants for schools that aren't progressing, according to a separate GAO report released April 11. The report called on the department to do a better job of spelling out how states should make "evidence-based" decisions about whether to remove schools' grants. And it found that among 23 of the 44 states responding to a GAO question about such decisions, most or all the schools that had their funding renewed failed to meet annual goals.
In a formal response, Michael Yudin, the acting assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education, called that GAO report "incomplete and somewhat misleading." But he agreed that the Education Department needs to do a better job of helping districts and states decide when to pull the plug on a grant.
Personnel Hurdles
Districts and schools have had the toughest time with the SIG program's human-resources requirements, which demand big changes in staffing under all four of the federal models.
Even the most flexible of those models—"transformation," the one chosen by nearly three-quarters of participating schools—requires districts to devise teacher-evaluation systems that take student performance into account.
The task proved so tough that last August the Education Department gave states and districts until the start of the 2013-14 school year to have the systems fully in place for use in decisions on teacher compensation and retention.
But the process has been rocky: Earlier this year, New York state for a time withheld SIG money from New York City when the local teachers' union and the district struggled to reach agreement on an evaluation system.
Under a number of models, districts and schools have struggled to replace long-serving teachers and principals. More than half the participating large urban districts said they didn't have enough time to hire qualified staff members, according to the survey by the urban schools' group.
Some schools using the second-most-popular option—"turnaround," which calls for getting rid of at least half a school's staff—scrambled to fill slots, or hired scores of novice teachers. For example, an analysis by the The Courier-Journal, of Louisville, Ky., found that 60 new hires across seven SIG schools, or more than 40 percent, were new to the profession.
To lure qualified educators, some districts, including Nevada's Clark County, spent SIG funding on signing bonuses to attract experienced teachers. Indiana and other states turned to alternative training programs such as Teach For America, a New York City-based nonprofit group that places new college graduates in under-resourced schools.
Rural schools, which account for about a fifth of SIG schools overall, have opted mainly for the flexible "transformation" model, which doesn't call for a big staffing shake-up but requires schools to replace the principal, create new teacher-evaluation systems, and add learning time to the school day.
"We're not Denver," said George Welsh, the superintendent of the 600-student Center Consolidated school district, which has a single elementary school. "We didn't think that just firing half of our teachers and hiring whatever was available out there was necessarily going to be a higher-quality option than what we currently have."
Management Demands
Finding principals with track records in turnarounds has also been tough. In some cases, districts shuffled principals from one SIG school to another: In New York City, the new leader for Grover Cleveland High School came from Queens Vocational High School, another school getting federal improvement funds.
Other places saw high turnover or had jobs sit vacant while districts searched for the right candidate. DePue High School, in the town of DePue, Ill., didn't find a new principal until its second year in the program. Some local leaders remain skeptical of the principal-removal requirement.
"I question the research behind that particular element," said Barbara VanSweden, the superintendent of the Fitzgerald district, in the Detroit metropolitan area. "I look at our situation and the fact that our principal has begun to make improvements in the area of student achievement."
But others see the approach as promising. More than half of 46 state Title I directors—who oversee programs for disadvantaged students—said that replacing the principal was a key element to improving student achievement in "transformation" and "turnaround" schools, according to a survey by the Center on Education Policy.
Even interventions with broader political support—such as adding more learning time to the school day—have bumped up against realities such as teacher contracts and bus schedules. Some schools have simply juggled instructional time already in their schedules.
Other schools funneled their dollars into before- or after-school programs. Memorial Middle School, in Orlando, Fla., now has a "zero" period at the start of the day, a time when students can come an hour early and work on reading and math skills using computer programs, or finish homework.
Still other schools have added time to the regular day—though sometimes not much. West Seattle Elementary School in Washington state used its SIG grant to add four days to the school year and an extra 15 minutes every day.
"Some people might say, 'Oh, 15 minutes, that's nothing,' " said the Seattle school's principal, Vicki Sacco. "But every moment counts."
Paying Outsiders
Pressed to put $3 billion in SIG money to use on a tight deadline, states enlisted an array of consultants, including for-profit companies, nonprofit turnaround specialists, and postsecondary institutions.
But tracking that cash—and determining whether schools have gotten their money's worth—remains daunting. The federal government does not tally how private educational consultants have benefited from the turnaround windfall, nor do most states, according to an analysis published in February by The Denver Post. In about 15 states that agreed to tally such spending, an average of roughly 25 percent of all SIG money went to private consultants.
In Colorado—one of the few states to calculate how private educational consultants have benefited from the SIG program—consultants took home $9.4 million, or 35 percent, of the state's $26.6 million in SIG money in the past two years, the analysis found. The Education Department requires states to review contractors in the tiny fraction of schools using the "restart" model, but not for the two most popular of the four SIG models—transformation and turnaround—which are being used at more than 90 percent of SIG schools.
For its most recent report, GAO officials spoke with eight states, none of which assessed districts' plans to review contractors as part of their SIG applications.
"Inconsistent review of contractors during contract performance reduces states' and districts' ability to ensure that they are receiving the services they have paid for," the GAO wrote.
In his response to the report, Mr. Yudin said that states and districts are already required to monitor grant implementation, including the performance of outside contractors.
The SIG program has seen some well-publicized stumbles along the way. Several news organizations, for example, have looked at the experience of one consultant working in SIG schools in Colorado, the New York City-based Global Partnership Schools.
GPS was founded by Rudy Crew, a former head of the New York City and Miami school systems, and Manuel Rivera, a former superintendent of the Rochester, N.Y., schools. (Mr. Crew left the company last fall.) The company operates SIG schools in Baltimore; Bridgeport, Conn.; and Pueblo, Colo.
In Pueblo, for example, where GPS has a $7.4 million contract, student performance slipped further at five of the six schools the company operates, The Denver Post reported.
At the GPS-operated school in Baltimore, Garrison Middle School, nearly every indicator of quality has dropped since GPS took over in 2010, The Baltimore Sun found.
But GPS seems to have had much more success at Harding High School in Bridgeport, where early indicators, such as attendance and school climate, have improved, according to staff and students, The Connecticut Mirror reported.
In an email to Education Week, Mr. Rivera said that turning around a school is a lengthy process and that states shouldn't expect big changes in student achievement overnight.
"Some of the most-respected researchers in America concur that transforming or turning around a chronically low-performing school is a multiyear process," he said.
States also have taken some steps to address provider quality. Fourteen states have offered districts an approved list of outside providers, according to the CEP survey of Title I directors.
Mr. Snyder, the federal Education Department's SIG chief, said that districts have brought in outside providers to help with the "challenging work" of turning around schools.
The program "gives districts the flexibility, through a rigorous screening process, to seek outside help that will meet their localneeds," Mr. Snyder said. "And on the rare occasion that an external provider doesn't work out, we have seen districts end that relationship and find another solution."
Future in Doubt
Meanwhile, the turnaround program is on thin ice on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers are sympathetic to those clamoring for greater local flexibility on turnarounds, including teachers' unions, principals' organizations, and advocates for district and state officials.
"We're concerned that locking into a specific set of models might hinder innovation in the school turnaround space," said Peter Zamora, the director of federal relations for the Council of Chief State School Officers.
The Obama administration has made its vision of the School Improvement Grant program—with its four signature models—a top priority in proposals to rewrite the NCLB law, the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. But the headwinds are strong. Some in the Senate lean toward more flexibility, while House Republicans have sought to defund the program entirely.
Even if the program survives, the nation's lowest-performing schools may never see another turnaround bonanza like the stimulus law's $3 billion in SIG money.
That has local officials already worrying about what may happen when the dollars disappear.
Lionel Jackson Jr., the principal of Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts High, in Baltimore, said, "The important question is: If this all goes away, can we keep up the momentum?"
Vol. 31, Issue 28, Pages 1, 18-21Published in Print: April 18, 2012, as Turnaround Momentum Still Fragile
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In search of spark, San Francisco got one from righty before break
SAN FRANCISCO -- If the Giants somehow return to the postseason, they'll reflect on the last weekend of the first half as one of the wakeup calls that roused them.
On Friday in San Diego, the fourth-place Giants locked their clubhouse to conduct a half-hour meeting during which players essentially told each other, "Snap out of it." They happened to win that night, 10-1.
One day later, Tim Lincecum, who had lurched through this season with a 4-9 record, delighted the Giants by no-hitting the Padres. Certainly, they had last year's World Series triumph to remind them of their capabilities, but Lincecum's bravura performance gave them a more current source of hope.
The Giants needed something to erase the disappointment of the previous 94 games as they approached the All-Star break. Maybe gathering their collective resolve, as they did in the meeting, and seeing an example of the elevated effort they'll need, which Lincecum provided, will spur them to ascend the National League West ladder.
Meetings are fleeting. They mean nothing unless talk is turned to action. But the sequence of Friday's outpouring and Saturday's milestone delivered by Lincecum may have refreshed the Giants' spirit.
All-Star closer Sergio Romo said that the sentiments expressed in the meeting "definitely hit home to a lot of us. For us to understand and look at each other and believe that we're better than we're putting out -- getting back to that confidence and expecting things to go right, going on the field expecting to win. Pure positivity. I think everything about that sticking together is huge for us."
Then Lincecum illustrated the meeting's message by pitching his masterpiece. Suddenly, the Giants had something around which they could rally. Players talk all the time about "building on" a particularly inspiring game, but on many occasions the foundation proves to be built on quicksand. By contrast, Lincecum's gem provided genuine inspiration. Like most of his teammates, Lincecum had endured his share of downtrodden times during this season. Yet he didn't let that stop him.
First-half awards
|MVP: Buster Posey He has entrenched himself as a legitimate, middle-of-the-order run producer.
|Cy Young: Madison Bumgarner Has emerged as the staff ace by avoiding the injuries and ineffectiveness that befell others.
|Rookie: Sandy Rosario Having changed organizations five times, the 27-year-old may have found a home.
|Top reliever: Sergio Romo Opposing hitters know they're going to see his slider, but they still can't hit it.
"As a manager, you look for things to help bring the club together," Bruce Bochy said. "Something like this does a lot for the team."
The Giants are far from eliminated from postseason contention. But they must perform with a sense of urgency once the season resumes Friday. They not only begin the theoretical second half with a 10-game homestand, which represents an obvious opportunity to gain ground, but they also begin this stretch with a three-game series against the NL West-leading Arizona Diamondbacks. Just winning twice over the weekend will reinforce the upbeat attitude -- the swagger -- that they lost during their 17-35 tailspin from May 14-July 10 and regained while taking three of four games at San Diego last weekend.
Thriving during the coming week will mean more to the Giants than gaining a game or two in the standings or creeping closer to .500. They can influence not only the West race, but also the outlook of general manager Brian Sabean, who must decide whether dealing for a proven hitter or a useful pitcher before the July 31 non-waiver Trade Deadline is worth the trouble.
Statistically, the Giants are a tangled mess. They're right where they should be in the NL pitching rankings, with the league's fourth-worst ERA (4.11), including the third worst by starters (4.59).
Their offense appears adequate, given that they rank third in the NL in batting average overall (.264) and with runners in scoring position (.258). But they're only eighth in runs scored, reflecting their erratic production. In the 26 games between the Giants' 10-run outputs on June 13 at Pittsburgh and last Friday at San Diego, they scored three or fewer runs 17 times.
Players to watch in second half
|Matt Cain The Giants desperately need his consistency and mound presence if they're to contend for a postseason berth.
|Pablo Sandoval Potentially a big-time run producer, Sandoval showed signs shortly before the All-Star break of regaining his form.
|Tim Lincecum Can help both the ballclub and his status as a likely free agent by building upon his no-hitter for a strong finish.
The Giants lack cohesion on the field. Their July 8-10 series against the Mets demonstrated their inability to coordinate a solid effort. In the first game, they pitched superbly but left 18 runners on base and went 1-for-15 with runners in scoring position in a 4-3, 16-inning loss. The next night, they amassed 13 hits but forgot how to pitch in a 10-6 defeat. Then came the series finale, when nothing went right in a 7-2 loss.
Left-hander Jeremy Affeldt, whose Giants tenure spans their four straight winning seasons, cited the team's lack of consistency and execution.
"We didn't hit with a lot of power last year -- we had the fewest homers in baseball -- but we got the key hit when we needed to," Affeldt said. "We're getting guys on base, but we haven't been able to get that key hit. Defensively, we've made some interesting errors this year [the Giants rank next-to-last in the NL with a .981 fielding percentage; consequently, their 66 errors are tied for third most in the league]. Pitching, I don't know how many runs we've given up with two outs in the last three weeks. It's been a lot. That cannot happen at the Major League level. I've been a huge part of that; I've given up five or six two-out runs. When that happens, you lose."
Yet the Giants don't consider themselves losers. Ask right fielder Hunter Pence, their most unsinkable player. Pence personifies the approach the Giants must maintain to make the season's second half a compelling one.
"No matter what, in life there are always tough times," Pence said. "Those are things that help you grow stronger. There is no 'woe is me.' We have a blessed opportunity every day. That's something to be extremely grateful for, to be in this league and be able to play for the San Francisco Giants. History will show that these swings can flip really quick. ... Teams with the experience that we have keep pushing."


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Holidays - Items tagged as "Pastel"
Most vintage printed Holiday tablecloths are from the 1960s but I carry as many as possible from every decade. Most Christmas tablecloths are red, green and gold but I try to add as many nontraditional Christmas cloths as possible. I will be adding vintage inspired or reproduction cloths for unusually shaped tables like oval and round. These tables did not become popular until the very end of the Vintage Tablecloth era
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- NWT Square Retro Easter Bunny Fence Tulips Novelty Vintage Printed Tablecloth (54 X 53) $50.00
- NWT Large Retro Easter Bunny Fence Tulips Novelty Vintage Printed Tablecloth (80 X 58) $60.00
- HTF Unused Pottery Barn Peter Rabbit Flopsy Bunnies Novelty Vintage Printed Tablecloth $75.00
- Retro Square Easter Bunny Egg Tree Novelty Vintage Printed Tablecloth (52 X 50) $30.00
- Square Fallani Cohn Easter Bunny Novelty Vintage Printed Tablecloth (53 X 49) $30.00
- Retro Easter Bunny Fence Tulips Novelty Vintage Printed Tablecloth (80 X 58) $40.00
- HTF Pastel Pink Blue Golden Bells Christmas Novelty Vintage Printed Tablecloth (76 X 59) $110.00


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Record number of Mass. kindergartners skip vaccines
Team 5 Investigates discovers spike in requests for religious exemptions
Most doctors say vaccines are the best weapons in the fight against childhood diseases. But Team 5 Investigates found more parents are refusing to use them.
New state numbers show 1,072 kindergartners started school last fall without vaccines. That's the highest number public health officials have seen.
"Every child that doesn't get their vaccines on time is at risk for serious illness," said Kevin Cranston, director of the Bureau of Infectious Diseases at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Areas with the highest percentages of unvaccinated kindergartners include Berkshire County with 2.8 percent, and on the Cape and islands with 4.1 percent.
In other parts of the country, pockets of unvaccinated children have been blamed for outbreaks of disease. Measles and pertussis -- also known as whooping cough -- are on the rise. And the Centers for Disease Control recently issued a health alert for Americans in London for the Olympics.
The concern is travelers may spread disease, posing an extra risk to vacation spots, including ones in Massachusetts.
"We get a lot of Europeans that come here, especially to Cape Cod on vacation," said Deirdre Arvidson, the public health nurse for Barnstable County. "So it's really, really important for parents to vaccinate their kids because you don't know where they're going to be exposed."
Public health officials believe the risk of an outbreak in Massachusetts right now is still low. Massachusetts has one of the highest vaccination rates in the country but does allow parents to opt out for medical or religious reasons.
Team 5 investigates has learned that for the first time, state public health officials identified the 100 schools and programs with the highest rates of exemptions. Now they're trying to figure out why.
One obvious reason is a significant jump in religious exemptions, which Team 5 discovered have doubled in the last decade. In the 2011-2012 school year, there were 747 kindergartners receiving religious exemptions, up from 343 in 2001-02.
Dr. Kathryn Rudman, the chief of staff for pediatrics at Cape Cod Hospital, treats some of those unvaccinated kids, even though she disagrees with their parents.
"These are not ignorant people," she said. "These are intelligent people who spend their time doing their research. It's just that I feel they are not reading the correct things. That very vocal friend with negative feelings towards vaccines can sway a lot of people."
Jamie Murphy hopes to be that person. His anti-vaccine website offers to show parents how to claim a religious exemption.
"The vaccines are not safe, and they're not effective," Murphy said. "So I applaud all those parents for having the courage to do what they need to do to protect their children."
But most doctors say those parents are doing the opposite.
"Vaccines have changed our lives," Rudman said. "And unless we continue with vaccines, we are going to have more deadly outbreaks, putting everyone at risk."