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Join TSN in a 30 teams in 30 days tour of the NHL in preparation for the upcoming season. Teams will be unveiled in reverse order of the pre-season TSN.ca Power Rankings, and the New York Rangers are up next. Get the lowdown on their off-season and the issues they face this season. Use the Your Call feature to give us your take on the Rangers!
New York Rangers2009-10: 38-33-11 (9th in East, missed the playoffs)General Manager: Glen Sather (11th Season)Head Coach: John Tortorella (3rd Season)
What they did in the off-season:
While the team did some patching of the roster, there were no big, bold moves made in the off-season. General manager Glen Sather found someone to alleviate some of the burden on top goaltender Henrik Lundqvist, who seemed to wear down a little while playing a career-high 73 games without a reliable backup in tow. Veteran netminder Martin Biron, who has over 208 NHL victories in his career, was signed to offer Lundqvist some relief. The Rangers might now have one of the most consistent goaltending tandems in the NHL.
The Rangers added some toughness however at a very high price by signing Derek Boogaard to a four-year contract. Over his 255-game career, this 6-foot-8 left wing who weighs in at 257-pounds has 544 penalty minutes and has a presence that is among the league's most intimidating. New York made a few other changes on offense, getting rid of Olli Jokinen, Enver Lisin, Aaron Voros, Jody Shelley, Patrick Rissmiller and Donald Brashear and bringing in sometime sniper Alexander Frolov, veteran centre Todd White and underrated forward Tim Kennedy. Both Frolov and White have had prolific scoring seasons in the past while Kennedy appeared to be coming in to his own prior to his baffling buyout by the Sabres. In addition, Mats Zuccarello-Aason, of the Swedish Elite League, who impressed many with his play for Norway at the Olympics, will also compete for a roster spot.
Defensively, the Rangers acquired some depth, signing Steve Eminger from the Ducks. Sather also saved himself a major headache by getting restricted free agent Marc Staal's name on a new five-year contract.
Biggest issue facing the team:
Last season, this team simply did not score enough goals. The Rangers lit the lamp 222 times, which ranked 20th in the league. But more importantly, they relied far too heavily on one guy to get it done. Marian Gaborik shouldered much of the offensive burden last season, scoring 42 goals, or 18.9 per cent of the team scoring total. Considering Gaborik's injury history, it would be unwise of the Rangers to put too much faith in the Slovak making it through another season relatively unscathed. Already up against the Cap, the Rangers were unable to do much in the off-season to shore up this area other than sign the enigmatic Frolov who can look like a world beater one night and invisible the next.
The Rangers got left out in the cold in their battle for that final playoff spot in the East last season when they lost their final game in a shootout with the Flyers, who instead seized the eighth and final spot. The few moves they made this summer might prove enough to get the Rangers over the hump and back into the playoffs.
Player to watch:
Alex Frolov is coming off a disappointing 2009-10 season with the Los Angeles Kings, who decided that he was no longer worth the headaches. The talented Russian is a two-time 30 goal scorer and despite tallying 19 last year, he still finished with 51 points. If he's motivated to prove detractors wrong while playing on a one-year deal, this could prove to be Sather's best move this summer.
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Annual Meeting at Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA May 29-June 1, 2014
The College Theology Society holds its Sixtieth Annual Convention from May 29-June 1, 2014 at Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA. The theme is God has begun a Great Work in Us: The Embodiment of Love in Contemporary Consecrated Life and Ecclesial Movements. Shannon Schrein, OSF (Lourdes University, OH) and Jason King (Saint Vincent College, PA) are co-editors for the annual volume.
As an important element of the living Church, monastic orders and consecrated religious start with God who calls witnesses to fidelity and mission in the world. The "Great Work" begins and continues through cooperation with God's grace. We would like to focus on two aspects of this work.
The first is how monastic and consecrated religious orders have responded to this call and how these orders have adapted to the dynamics of Vatican II, their own charisms, and the surrounding culture. Sr. Sandra Schneiders, Professor Emerita at the Graduate Theological Union, and Archbishop Joseph Tobin of Indianapolis, former Secretary of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, will be keynote speakers on this topic.
The second aspect concerns ecclesial movements. The council's emphasis on the laity opened up opportunities for people to carry out work historically reserved for religious. The result has been an increase in a number of lay ecclesial movements that draw upon the forms of consecrated life to do specific ministries in the church. Professor Dennis Doyle from the University of Dayton will be addressing this topic.
Both aspects are responding to the council's call found in the Decree on the Adaptation and Renewal of Religious Life (Perfectae Caritatis). The Latin title reflects the council's impetus to renew the work of love in religious life in the church, through the evangelical counsels. The conference theme hopes to capture both the history of these ways of life and how they currently attempt to carry out Jesus' call to love.
The conference will examine topics such as: the origins of consecrated life, its adaptation to particular times and places, its context in the United States or abroad, the history and current reality of religious orders, monasticism, the adaptation of the evangelical counsels and the rules of religious order to Catholic and Protestant lay communities, the emergence of ecclesial movements like the new monasticism, the meaning behind the rise of more traditional forms of religious life, the portrayal of consecrated religious life in film, the investigation of women's communities in America, the question of authority and LCWR.
The Call for Papers is available at this tab. Proposals should be 250-500 words in length and include one's current institutional affiliation and position. Proposals must be submitted to the appropriate conveners no later than Monday, December 16, 2013 for consideration. Scholars will be notified of the status of their proposals no later than January 15, 2014. Scholars who are invited to present a paper at a national convention of the College Theology Society MUST be members of the Society as of April 1st. No person may submit more than one proposal for consideration, and nor will proposals to multiple sections be considered. These policies will be strictly enforced.

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Police recover stolen itemsDecember 11,2012MONTPELIER Vermont State Police say a search of a stolen car being used by a fugitive helped recover items stolen in Vermont and New Hampshire in recent months.
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As a Snapping Shoals EMC member for the last 18 years and a board member for the last three, I'm pleased to say our co-op's rates are among the lowest in the state, even lower than Georgia Power. Our power supply is dependable now and into the future and our co-op's conservation efforts are a model for other co-operatives.
You may have already received misleading and deceptive mailings or robotic phone calls from radical environmental groups attacking your co-operative. They will tell you they want to save you money; however, their true concern is furthering a very extreme anti-coal agenda with little or no concern for the price of your electricity or whether it will be there when you need it. I am concerned about the environment; but, I am also concerned about our fellow co-op members who are already struggling to pay their power bills in this difficult economy.
The annual meeting of Snapping Shoals EMC will be held on Thursday, July 26, at the Georgia International Horse Park in Conyers; voting will begin at 8:30 a.m. and end at 11:15 a.m. It's not too late to save our co-op if we show up and vote for Anthony Norton, Walter Johnson and myself. Let's stand up for our co-op and keep power bills down.
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The rock has been found. See page 2 Friday, March 1, 1985 Weber State College Vol. 45 No.36 WSC Budget Approved After Many Revisions by Rae Dawn Olbert Managing Editor The Utah legislature has approved WSC's budget for the 1985-86 school year. However, explained President Rodney H. Brady, the final budget proposal was first sent to the Board of Regents, who made cuts, and then sent to the legislature's management committee, who made further cuts from the budget before sending it to the legislature for approval. Dr. Jerald Storey, vice president for business affairs, said it was "very disappointing" that the original budget proposal wasn't passed. "It's not what we needed" for salary increases and such, he said. Storey said each state agency received a five percent increase for salary adjustments, and Weber State received additional funds to help salaries "catch-up to the market," but the additional monies is not enough. He explained that even though the legislature awarded a specific amount for a specific use, the college has flexibility in deciding how much to use in each area. One example is the $44,000 one-time supplement awarded to non-instructional equipment. Storey said they don't have to use the entire amount for this purpose; it can be spread out to cover other programs as well. Storey explained that instructional equipment (awarded a one-time $360,000 supplement this year) is material used by the students in lab or class. Non-instructional equipment is material used by non-students, such as office material used by administrative secretaries, material used in the physical plant, and others. Other areas receiving budget increases include administrative data processing, current expenditures, new space and travel, said Storey. DUI Roadblocks Roadblocks Unconstitutional, Say Area Attorneys Editor's Note: This is the final in a three-part series dealing with the constitutionality of DUI roadblocks. In this installment, area attorneys present their viewpoint. by Pam Stoker News Editor Its midnight, Friday. The Hometown Police have set up a roadblock on Mainstreet. The Johnson family is coming home from the movies; Sam R. is driving home from a party; John Q. is driving ' to Cheyenne for an early appointment; Tom B. is starting the long drive home from the bar and Sue J. is on her way to work at the hospital. Mr. Johnson slows down for the flashing lights, wondering if there has been an accident. He is annoyed when he discovers it's a roadblock. He grudgingly hands over his license and registration but lets the officers know he is upset. Sam R. is feeling a pleseant glow from the party he just left. He doesn't drink often and tonight he stuck to his three-drink limit. The flashing lights attract his attention and he pulls over, a little surprised at the number of police present. As the officer leans down, he detects the odor of alcohol and asks Sam to pull onto the shoulder of the road. He asks Sam for his license and registration. He then reads to Sam the information pertaining to him from the DUI Summons and Citation. A police van with all the necessary equipment to test for alcohol or drugs is parked nearby. John Q. is angry. Already late for his appointment in Cheyenne, he pulls over. When asked for his license and registration, he mildly protests, knowing any display of anger will cost him more time. Tom B. left the bar unable to stand up without aid. The flashing lights confuse him and he knocks over a stanchion as he attempts to pull his truck behind John Q. The officers detect a very strong odor of alcohol and the eyelight test makes them suspicious of drug usage. He is told to pull over and is read his rights. Sue J. had read about the roadblock in her local newspaper. She knew it might take place on her route to work so she gave herself a few extra minutes to get there. She handed the officer her license and registration without comment.Three of the five were sent on their way. Two remained in custody. Of the two, Sam showed the least amount of alcohol in his blood test. Tom not only N.v "Hmiilblocks" on iii.iy 3 X V ? - r; 4 v r U r I. , V-t. ;. T.f m yu ;j r f7T J "'J : : A. . More lhan 600 people slopped by the Hair Fair yesterday for a free haircut and style. Cosmotology students completed six to eight haircuts each, with hairstyles Signpost pholoMallhew Brown ranging from a little off the top to a full Mohawk. The Cosmotology Department sponsored the Hair Fair to promote the campus awareness program. Report Cards To Carry ACG? by Loretta Park Staff Reporter Upon receiving your report card, have you ever wondered how you did in comparison to the rest of the class? According to Diane M. Kawamura, assistant professor of radiological sciences, students may not have to wonder any longer. Kawamura, chair of the faculty senate admissions and standards committee, said the average class grade (ACG) may be printed on student report cards next fall. The faculty senate is considering a proposal to list the ACG on student's report cards. Kawamura said advantages to printing the ACG on report cards include: " . . . faculty would receive fewer requests from students to change their grades, and students who want to know how they ranked in each class would have the information readily available to them." However, printing the ACG on report cards would require new report card forms, and, according to Kawamura, WSC's computer system does not presently have the capabilities to compute the ACG. She said the computer should be able to compute the ACG by fall of 1985. "The major reason for implementing the ACG at Weber is to give students the advantage of having immediate evaluation of how well they did compared to other students in a particular class," said Kawamura. The University of Utah began printing the ACG on student's report cards in 1977. According to Ron Paterson, registrar at the university, the ACG is used to determine if a student qualifies for honors at graduation. Paterson said one reason the ACG was implemented was to try and curb grade inflation. The ACG was helpful in this respect, he said. Another reason for the ACG was to compare the difficulty of the College of Sciences material to other college's material. Paterson said some of the questions remain unanswered. The faculty senate at WSC has tabled the proposal until they receive more feedback from students as to whether they want the ACG and also more information from other institutions currently using the ACG.
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|Signpost (Weber, Utah), 1985-03-01, Vol. 45, No. 36
|Weber State College
|Associated Students of Weber College; A generous grant from the Utah State Library and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
|Weber's current student newspaper, the Signpost, first appeared on September 29, 1937. For two years prior to that time, campus news was disseminated via announcements posted on a bulletin board known as the "Signpost". As a result, the masthead of the first issue of the paper itself featured a rudimentary wooden sign with the title spelled out in rustic-looking letters. Over the years the paper has been published continuously, though the look, size and style has changed several times.
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Matt Kramer faces an unfamiliar challenge in his first year as head boys basketball coach Milton High School. Kramer has never coached this much talent.
Hired over the summer, Kramer made a name for himself coaching in Ohio. He turned around a struggling program at Fairless High School, before persevering through three tough seasons at Canton South. He had one player go on to play at the Division II level during his 14 seasons as a head coach in Ohio. At Milton, he inherits a roster with potentially five Division I prospects.
"With everything I've done with programs that don't have a lot, I'm really excited to see what I can do with a program that does have everything you need," said Kramer. "This is like Disneyland for me. We've got players at every position that are really, really good. In my experience, if you get kids who are pretty good and get them to play hard and play together, they can do great things. So if you have kids who are extraordinarily talented and you can get them to play hard and play together, to me, the sky's the limit for these guys."
Kramer was hired July 6. He is the Eagles' third coach in as many seasons, following Van Keys and David Boyd. Boyd led Milton to the 2012 and 2010 state championships, before being terminated after a Fulton County investigation alleged he used undue influence to attract players from outside of the district. Keys took over for Boyd and led the Eagles to a 14-10 mark last season.
"In the interview, one of the things that stood out to me was that they really want a coach that's going to build the feeder system, work with the junior Eagles and connect the middle-school team to the high school team," said Kramer. "They wanted someone who was going to try to maintain the level of success that Milton has had over the past four years using Milton kids."
Kramer, 44, was working as an assistant coach at North Canton Hoover High School, when he was first contact about the Milton position by former Georgia coach and current San Antonio Spurs executive Dennis Felton in June. A month later, Kramer accepted the position and moved his family to Georgia from Ohio. He is married to wife Christine and has three kids, sons Luke and Landon and daughter Olivia. He arrives with a career record of 142-103 as a head coach and is the co-author of the book, "The Best-Laid Plans of a High School Basketball CEO."
The son of a basketball coach, Kramer says the Eagles will get up and down the court, shoot a lot of threes and play pressure defense this season. Milton opens practice Oct. 28. The Eagles first game is Nov. 15.
October 16th, 2013
9:30 am
What happened to Van Keys? Did he leave by choice or was he let go?
October 16th, 2013
11:08 am
Dummies, the only reason Milton was so successful was because they won without "Milton kids". Transfers and D1 scholarships made Milton a winner. Lets see how they do once this coach follows his new mandate,
October 16th, 2013
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I run two on my Tallboy LTc and one on the front of my SS29er. These tires are not cheap and they don't last super long, but they are VERY GOOD!
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These tires are reasonably grippy and predictable, but in my experience they disappoint as soon as you get on the gas. They are a super round profile, filled with knobs, and super soft rubber. This makes them a very smooth and supple ride that less aggressive riders would most likely love. Cornering hard leaves a lot to be desired though, as you get faster and lower in a corner the traction remains fairly consistent until you get on the super SUPER soft cornering knobs, which seem to just smoosh out of the way and give out. For a beefy tire they roll pretty well and are good for long XC rides, but if you are looking for a tire that will give you the confidence to ride faster down hill then look elsewhere. I too am about to try out the High Roller IIs in place of these, and have high hopes. Those have more spaced out center and cornering knobs, which should theoretically hook up much better in fast corners.
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As election day looms, the AJC examines the emotions and money around the charter school amendment in a Sunday piece. The amendment remains an explosive issue with great interest from both inside and outside the state.
Pro-amendment groups, including national school-choice advocates and for-profit charter school operators, have raised more than $2 million; amendment opponents have collected $123,243, mostly from public school officials, according to an analysis of campaign-finance records by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Please read the entire piece before commenting.
The AJC editorial page came out today in opposition to Amendment One, saying it would be a waste of taxpayer funds to create a new bureaucracy to do what the state board of education can already do. The AJC joined GOP State School Superintendent John Barge in contending that the creation of another layer of state government is wrong when Georgia has slashed billions from school funding over the last few years, leading to larger classes and shorter school years.
Gov. Deal offered an opposing view.
The AJC also looked at charter school enrollment in metro Atlanta and found that the schools have smaller ratios of low-income students. (This link takes you to a blog that discusses the change in the charter school movement, which began to create choices for poor kids trapped in failing schools but now has become a choice vehicle for suburban parents looking for more specialized schooling for their children)
So, there is a lot to read and discuss this weekend.
The ballot language makes no mention of dollars, but billions are at stake. Which is why vast sums are being spent to promote and – to a lesser extent – to oppose the amendment.
With Republican Mitt Romney heavily favored to win Georgia's presidential contest, the charter school referendum is the local race to watch Tuesday. Pro-amendment forces have mailers, billboards and a television ad campaign extolling educational choice. Opponents are hitting back with a racially-charged radio ad in which The Rev. Joseph Lowery says the proposal would "resegregate our schools."
Critics say it has sowed confusion. The motto of the pro-amendment side is "Vote YES! for Public Charter Schools," and the ballot language asks if the state constitution should be amended "to allow state or local approval of public charter schools upon the request of local communities?" A minister and a teacher sued arguing the language is misleading.
Mike Kwon, a 45-year-old Atlanta architect and martial arts instructor, cast an absentee ballot voted for the amendment but realized his error afterward when he chatted with friends by Facebook. He said he supports charter schools but favors less state involvement, not a new commission.
"I think I was totally hoodwinked by the (ballot) language," Kwon said.
There are more than 100 charter schools in Georgia and two routes to establish them. Charter school applicants must first apply to the local school board. If the application is rejected, they can appeal to the state Board of Education, which may overrule the local officials. Which body approves the application affects whether a charter school receives local property tax dollars or not. Charters with either type approval receive state funds.
The amendment facing voters would create a third route for approval, an appointed state commission.
The issue has created an unpredictable mix of political alliances that make the outcome tough to predict. Prominent tea party activists have aligned with urban black Democrats and the state's GOP school superintendent in opposing the amendment. On the flip side, many leading Republicans who frequently tout the virtues of local control are pushing for creation of a state commission that could provide a separate avenue for charter applicants.
It's a fight that involves a huge pot of public dollars. State and local governments spend $13 billion a year to educate Georgia's 1.6 million K-12 students. Charter schools are independent public schools that operate free of some state rules as long as they meet performance goals. They're promoted as an antidote to poor-performing public schools.
The Georgia proposal has attracted dollars from stars in the school-choice movement. Deep-pocketed donors include Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton ($600,000) and StudentsFirst ($250,000), founded by ex-Washington D.C. School Superintendent Michelle Rhee, a leader in the push for teacher accountability.
Some of the large donors backing the amendment have ties to for-profit charter management companies. They include K12 ($100,000), the Herndon, Va-based company that manages cyber charter schools around the country; J.C. Huzienga, ($75,000) who founded Grand Rapids, Mich.-based National Heritage Academies, which manages charter schools including one in Atlanta; and Charter Schools USA ($50,000) in Fort Lauderdale, one of the oldest and largest for-profit operators of charter schools.
Some of the spending will remain secret. A separate effort by Brighter Georgia, a coalition of groups organized by the nonprofit Georgia Charter Schools Association, does not have to disclose its donors or how much it has spent. Brighter Georgia billboards have popped up around Atlanta, and its mailers have blanketed mailboxes. They stop short of asking recipients to vote for the amendment but lay out the benefits of it and of charter schools and look strikingly similar to the campaign mailers.
Bert Brantley, spokesman for Families for Better Public Schools, which has raised and spent the most among the pro-charter groups, said the big donations simply show the breadth of support. "We are very gratified to have such broad support," he said. "It's really about giving every child an option."
Those who oppose the charter amendment say they aren't surprised by the heavy spending. "This is money versus public schools. It is part of the privatization (of schools) effort. Everybody knows what this is about. It's about the choice agenda and for-profit companies. There is big money to be made in schools," Herb Garrett, executive director of the Georgia School Superintendents Association, said.
–From Maureen Downey, for the AJC Get Schooled blog
November 4th, 2012
11:20 am
No. It's about getting rid of socialism and removing the morons from the front of the class rooms. Public schools are the biggest socialist disaster of all in America. You want to know why we are in a mess? Look at the morons that have run the schools systems for the last fifty years.
November 4th, 2012
11:34 am
Vote NO!
This amendment IS NOT an answer to the problems of which the proponents are complaining.
The proponents get a large majority of their funding from out of state. What does that tell you?
How many Georgia entities fund out of state issues across the country? Those that do have an economic reason to do so. What does that tell you?
The state superintendent of schools is against the amendment & went public against the man who appointed him to his position.What does that tell you?
The amendment duplicates what is already in place as far as an appeals process but slips in a change in the funding mechanism, shifting a state imposed charter to the local county tax digest whose majority does not want it. A stance that runs opposite to the GOP mantra of "local control." What does that tell you?
Then the governor weighs in making questionable points. He has an unsavory track record. What does that tell you?
What it tells me is that it has NOTHING to do with education and EVERYTHING to do about money.
November 4th, 2012
11:34 am
"It is part of the privatization (of schools) effort. Everybody knows what this is about. It's about the choice agenda and for-profit companies. There is big money to be made in schools," Herb Garrett, executive director of the Georgia School Superintendents Association, said."
Herb Garrett's organization named Beverly Hall their Superintendent of the Year. To date (correct me if I'm wrong GSSA) they have NOT rescinded the award.
And you claim to have CREDIBILITY??? Really?
November 4th, 2012
11:38 am
"The state superintendent of schools is against the amendment & went public against the man who appointed him to his position.What does that tell you?"
That he, just like the local BOEs, care more about feathering their own nest than about serving their students. They don't want competition because it might show how ineffective and corrupt the existing system is.
November 4th, 2012
11:41 am
If the existing system did not want the competition from charters, they should have worked harder at solving their existing problems rather than trying the latest "politically correct" solution.
November 4th, 2012
11:42 am
November 4th, 2012
11:20 am
"Public schools are the biggest socialist disaster of all in America."
The same socialist entity that educated the masses throughout what is referred to as "The American Century."
Yes, truly a disaster.
November 4th, 2012
11:48 am
How many of the charter schools get built in troubled neighborhoods or nearby to under perfoming schools? If this was truly about giving parents choice, the charter schools would compete directly with the under perfoming public schools nearby and not located off in the suburbs yet offer none of the infrastructure or accountability that public schools must offer to get students there.
Oh, and the whole issue about being staffed and managed by for-profit companies who show no interest in footing the bill to build a private school yet line up to manage a public school being given public dollars to do so.
November 4th, 2012
11:50 am
let's look at all of the successful and thriving nations that do not provide public education. I'll start with …
November 4th, 2012
11:52 am
"How many of the charter schools get built in troubled neighborhoods or nearby to under perfoming schools?"
So only troubled neighborhoods and underperforming school parents deserve a choice? The middle class has to leave their kids TRAPPED in existing schools?
November 4th, 2012
11:54 am
If the existing "traditional" school system had tried to solve the issues that I constantly list, there would be NO DEMAND for charter schools and there would be no controversy.
November 4th, 2012
11:56 am
mountain man
November 4th, 2012
11:38 am
"That he, just like the local BOEs, care more about feathering their own nest than about serving their students."
A man who has spent a successful career in education as a teacher and administrator. He is a recipient of numerous education awards from non-aligned entities. His daughter attends public school.
Do you have facts to support your accusation about feathering his nest? Or is it just opinion?
Just to point out my own error, he was elected to his current position, not appointed, my bad.
November 4th, 2012
12:06 pm
The money always follows the child. It does not matter if it's for a private school, charter school, home schools or even leaves the county. All of the under performing teachers try using this as a reason to oppose this amendment when they know its not true.
November 4th, 2012
12:14 pm
"Do you have facts to support your accusation about feathering his nest? Or is it just opinion?"
People do what they do for their own reasons. Of course I don't have proof of his intentions because they are in his head. It is my opinion.
He was elected to serve his constituents. We will see at the next election if the majority of his constituents belive he is doing that job.
We will see on Wednesday if the majority of Georgians think parents should have more options for choice of a charter school.
If this amendment fails, do you really think this issue will die?
November 4th, 2012
12:15 pm
These good corporations just gave $2M to support STATE charter schools (we already have charter schools) because they love our little children. Of course, Sandusky loved children, so you have to be careful about that.
November 4th, 2012
12:16 pm
Governor Deal is just the latest in a long line of political hacks to occupy that office.
So, keeping that in mind, is this ammendment about helping our children or about money and politics?
You get three guesses. (the first two don't count)
November 4th, 2012
12:17 pm
mountain man
November 4th, 2012
11:52 am
"The middle class has to leave their kids TRAPPED in existing schools?"
In 30+ years of teaching, I have not met an involved parent who has complained of being "trapped."
I HAVE met some parents who were displeased with the school system because their troublesome student was being disciplined. The first time I met them was after the bottom fell out from under their child, never when an attempt was being made to contact them about the run-ups to the serious situation in which they then found themselves.
I personally have had a student removed from my class because a parent did not want their child exposed to scientific facts that were "…the work of the devil." I'm sure that parent would have been much better served in a charter school teaching creationism.
However, the overwhelming majority of the parents I come in contact with on a daily basis are quite happy with the education their child is getting in their local public school. This is probably why the Amendment preamble is so deceptively worded. The proponents know they are pushing an amendment that would not pass on its face alone due to a lack of public support.
November 4th, 2012
12:19 pm
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Our Military is run by the Government, so, we have a socialist Military.
By your logic, our Military should be a complete failure. It is not. So, maybe this "socialism" isn't so bad after all.
November 4th, 2012
12:26 pm
It's always about money. Money is the root of all evil! Absolutely nothing will be changed if the amendment is approved. The same parents, students, and teachers are still in place. Until parents are held responsible for their kids disrupting the learning process and teachers who don't want to teach are ousted nothing is going to change. School is not a free daycare. This is the only country which gives no value to education and it's very sad.
November 4th, 2012
12:28 pm
The language of Fulton's charter makes me feel trapped. Avossa's Strategic Plan makes me feel trapped. The fact that Spence Rogers is doing professional development with his Teaching for Excellence model makes me feel trapped. Knowing hundreds of thousands has been paid to Cambridge Education to come in and tell teachers they cannot teach makes me feel trapped. All the project based learning makes me feel trapped.
The fact that Joel Klein announced at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon that Fulton planned to create new kinds of minds makes me feel trapped. The fact that Fulton principals are now interested in a student's personality characteristics but still little knowledge makes me feel trapped. A Life Skills emphasis downright makes me want to gag.
It seems to me that State Approved Charter Schools may well be the only publicly funded schools in Georgia where there is any accountability to the taxpayer.
November 4th, 2012
12:30 pm
"In 30+ years of teaching, I have not met an involved parent who has complained of being "trapped.""
My son was trapped in a system that did not care that he was refused the opportunity to go to the restroom and consequently soild his pants.
I removed him from that system, home-schooled him for the remainder of the year, then placed him in a private school temporarily, then moved to a good school system, where I never had any more problems.
A charter school in that county would have at least given one more option. If I had not had the financial means, he would have been TRAPPED in that system.
November 4th, 2012
12:36 pm
November 4th, 2012
12:26 pm
"Absolutely nothing will be changed if the amendment is approved."
I must disagree here. I do not trust the Deal administration to appoint commission members who will have a clue about the needs of education. I foresee rubber-stamping of requests for politically connected charters that did not have a sound education plan and were denied by local boards. I foresee these schools sucking education dollars away from local systems resulting in continuing program eliminations, class size increases & teacher layoffs.
November 4th, 2012
12:57 pm
I stand corrected, I am now aware of two.
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November 4th, 2012
12:28 pm
Project-based learning is a return to proven methodologies of the past (just a new name) where students have actual hands-on experiences as opposed to strict text learning that has come about due to decreased consumables budgets. I do not know the ins and outs of Fulton's overall plans but I can speak with authority on that one issue you raise. Gwinnett School of Math Science & Technology (a charter school) implements this very well along with most other GCPS's.
mountain man
November 4th, 2012
12:30 pm
There was not a charter in the county but what you recall would certainly give me ammunition to get behind a charter there. Did you get behind a push for a charter school? Were you denied by the local board? Denied again by the state commission? If not, your bluster loses credibility.
November 4th, 2012
12:57 pm
I have no problem with charters but their funding should be equal to other public schools and independent of those schools. No other school should lose money to fund another. And I am very WARY of for-profit charters. How is profit to be made in a public service such as education?
November 4th, 2012
1:06 pm
Attentive Parent/Invisible Serfs Collar, I live in Fulton county and I do not understand why you feel trapped. The county allows students to transfer to another school as long as it is not full. Given that a LOT of schools have been build in north Fulton in the past 10-15 years means that there is room in many of the schools there.
I know there is a big disparity between the schools in north Fulton and south Fulton. Given that both are run by the same superintendent and school board points to the fact that is it not the leadership of the school system, but rather the lack of parental involvement that drives the difference.
If you feel your child is "trapped" in their school, then find another school within the system that is better. Several of the schools in this system have been named Blue Ribbon schools. Several of the high schools have been named in the top 20 of all high schools in GA. In fact, the high school named #2 in the entire state has space and there are many high school students from south Fulton who commute 2-3 hours every day just to attend that school. While this is not an ideal solution, it certainly is not "trapped".
November 4th, 2012
1:24 pm
Since all polls (other than the grossly biased AJC which wistfully says it is close) show it passing, why don't these AJC followers work with it instead of uselessly wailing against it? Deal with what you have, instead of what you wish for.
November 4th, 2012
1:27 pm
Wow! Just Wow! There is so much in this article and the comments that truly disturb me as a parent. First, AJC Editorial comes out in support of GOP State Superintendent in opposition of Amendment 1. Really? I never realized that the AJC should be in support or opposition when dealing with politics. It is your role to provide facts, stories and apparently personal political opinions. Absolutely, disgusted by this AJC. Second, I am a product of GA schools and I can tell you that I am educated quite well. However, having children of my own now, the issue and need for choice became apparent while consistently volunteering in my children's classrooms. I know many other parents were pleased with our local school, but I was not. It drove me crazy volunteering at the school and watching my daughter sit idle because she had finished her work, but was given nothing else to work on. I am talking about challenging those students who are ready for additional work. Of course, I also saw other children struggling to understand the concepts. The teacher's did their best trying to get the concepts through, but given one method for teaching the content really tied their hands. Our state ranks lowest in the nation in education. To me this clearly means, we are NOT DOING SOMETHING RIGHT! Now, comes the fight over control: money and government. Oh boy, here we go again! Money and Government, forget the children! If the local boards were doing such a fantastic job, then why is our state 48th in nation? If I have a choice of college to attend based on my skills, why can I not as parent choice the school that best suits my children needs? That's right money and power! I VOTED YES TO AMENDMENT 1 and urge all others to think about the real facts: 48th in education! embrace change, embrace hope, embrace parental choice! For profit management companies exist with most non-profits. After all someone has to be responsible for the management duties, so the teachers can focus on their jobs to teach our children and ensure the child's ability to comprehend the content. Know your facts and vote to support education and a parents right to choose.
November 4th, 2012
1:28 pm
"Did you get behind a push for a charter school? Were you denied by the local board? Denied again by the state commission? If not, your bluster loses credibility."
Charter schools were not allowed then. I am hoping that current parents would have an additional option.
November 4th, 2012
1:34 pm
To the attack dogs out there: unthinking criticism is not the same as critical thinking, nor is it as good.
November 4th, 2012
1:35 pm
The public school monopoly needs more competition and the Charter Schools Amendment is the only measure on the ballot offering it. Other measures, such as vouchers allowing any student to take a full share of "his" system's operating budget to any public or private school that will accept him, would be better. But they are not on the ballot.
November 4th, 2012
1:36 pm
crankee-yankee, would you please identify the Georgia "charter schools that teach creationism"?
November 4th, 2012
1:37 pm
Centrist, likely for the same reason that the GOP Congress has done everything it can to not work with the President and his cabinet, they are only thinking of themselves and not the Nation as a whole – or in this case, the parents clamoring for "choice" (on the public dollar thank you) are not thinking of working with the system as a whole but rather only thinking about themselves and their own kids and the rest of em' be damned.
November 4th, 2012
1:43 pm
From the Shannon McCaffrey/James Salzer article in the AJC, linked above, are these words:
"The ballot language makes no mention of dollars, but billions are at stake. Which is why vast sums are being spent to promote and – to a lesser extent – to oppose the amendment.
Pro-amendment groups, including national school-choice advocates and for-profit charter school operators, have raised more than $2 million; amendment opponents have collected $123,243, mostly from public school officials, according to an analysis of campaign-finance records by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
That more than 2 million dollars have been raised by pro-amendment groups should tell readers that this amendment is primarily about money vs. public schools. As Herb Garrett well expressed, above, "There is big money to be made in schools."
Children in public schools should not be used to make money for profiteers.
Vote NO on NOvember 6 on Amendment One.
November 4th, 2012
1:48 pm
MANGLER, what is wrong with "…parents clamoring for choice (on the public dollar thank you)…" in the context of public schools? Choice works for publicly-funded colleges and I don't hear anybody clamoring to assign students to the nearest college.
November 4th, 2012
1:50 pm
Mary Elizabeth is one of those who would say all on the ship should drown because we only have a lifeboat big enough for 10%.
I have asked her if she does not agree that there are serious issues with the existing school systems with discipline, attendance, social promotion and she agrees (reluctantly, when pressured). So why, ME, has the existing school systems not done more to address these problems?
November 4th, 2012
1:51 pm
Since the concept of public education was first created here in America before Karl Marx was even born, I get a kick out of the factually challenged individuals who keep attacking it as Socialist. Public education is literally as American as apple pie.
November 4th, 2012
1:52 pm
IF this were just about the children and the quality of their education, you would see me, and MANY of the other folks who oppose this measure shouting from the rooftops. Make no mistake, this is about MONEY. I challenge the Gov to submitt some REAL reform legislation. We do need some changes, this is not it. One final thought, just because you write the check to the county for property taxes, instead of the state, that does not mean your taxes don't go up!!
November 4th, 2012
1:59 pm
@ Mangler – you are simply a partisan. Boehner stood up to the large Tea Party wing of his party and made a tentative "Grand Bargain" deal with Obama on spending, taxes, deficits, and debt – but it was Democrat Senators who made Obama renege. We are going to HAVE to have that or a similar "Grand Bargain" a year later – but this year's election politics got in the way of Democrats who put party above country. A lame duck Congress will kick the can down the road rather than let the stupid fiscal cliff of increased across the board tax rate increases and draconian military spending cuts.
November 4th, 2012
2:42 pm
A reader-I feel trapped because all those things I listed gut the transmission of knowledge. And because it is the high achieving high schools being targeted. It's not a matter of bringing up South Fulton as insisting that the schools in North Fulton that were doing a good job may not any more.
Plus I am quite aware of what the terms Avossa loves to throw around actually mean. Plus I have a copy of the AdvancED accreditation standards and recognize that Mark Elgart does not want academic learning as traditionally understood going on anywhere. I am not being cute. Everything I listed works much differently than commonly understood.
crankee-yankee-I am quite familiar with project-based learning. Would love to see your research on what it is proven to do. My research says it is an attempt to push social interaction and cooperative learning as the point of the classroom experience and allows education credentials to be given to weak students.
I do not like the fact that everyone is trying to figure out a way to let kids who actually cannot read beyond a basic, in context, level a high school degree anyway. Then they get shoved to USG who has figured out how to do the same. Get a degree to people who are only marginally literate.
I think we are creating expensive expectations when we give out degrees to people who are so objectively weak. I want to fix those problems back in elementary school where they start not keep trying to come up with ways to not teach reading effectively and then decide print literacy is no longer really necessary.
As I have said on the language on this point in Georgia's NCLB waiver-if being illiterate is not to be a barrier anymore, is anyone going to tell the poor students and his parents? Or let them take their solace from online gaming in the classroom and others doing most of the work in the group projects.
If the classroom teacher cannot lecture anymore, the only kids who will really know history are the ones getting it from home or from travel with grandparents. Lots of this skill emphasis will end up making the nature of the home and parents education all the more important. School ought to be about moving beyond the circumstances you were born into, not reenforcing those kids whose parents pay attention and recognize what is missing.
We will simply make kitchen table remediation and storytelling that much more important.
November 4th, 2012
2:59 pm
Dr. Monica Henson
November 4th, 2012
1:36 pm
Although I have not always agreed with your points in the past, I always respected your opinions. Until now.
You have lost all credibility by grossly misquoting me. See below my actual quote of 12:17 pm.
"I'm sure that parent would have been much better served in a charter school teaching creationism."
Nowhere did I say there were such schools in GA, just that the parent would have been happier in such an institution.
November 4th, 2012
3:14 pm
As usual, the ignorant masses are clueless, haven't done their own research, and see only what they are told to see. I stand with Mountain Man, and Robin Eubanks (ivisibleserfscollar.com). What is happening in the schools today is not a benign experiment. The dumbing down is deliberate, and the majority of students are not being educated, but are being schooled to become willing slaves of the system. But since this is not new, these people who cannot understand, who choose not see the truth, just can't help themselves, since they are the product of this same system. They see the changes in the whole system as good, since they have little knowledge of the past, and have been indoctrinated themselves. Propaganda works because the masses are easily led by the puppet masters.
Some of us do see and want our own children and grandchildren to have a solid, well-rounded education…not the pablum that is being poured out in the schools today. And everything is about money. Our schools are not headed by wise stewards of the tax dollars…administration is over-bloated, with those at the top and all of their support teams raking in the money, while our teachers struggle with less. The politically correct bunch of nuts is more interested in the unruly, discipline challenged thugs, and their rights, and they know exactly what they doing with the 'close the gap' plans. You do not raise the bottom by bringing down the top. But that is what they intend to do. To level the playing field, they have changed from a knowledge base, to the feel good, lets sing some rap, and read an info manual instead. Past learning isn't important, history isn't important, science isn't important, and neither is English, or literature. Unfair, they say that some children have the advantage over those poor children who haven't learned these things. Watch out, they are already taking the books out of the classrooms. Instead nobody will know anything, and that is just the way they want it.
It will be too soon be too late, and those who have been misled, misfed, and mistaken, will be the ones who cry out the loudest. But those of us who have been aware, and informed will continue to ensure that ours get the education that we want them to have, in spite of the government systems.
Vote yes for choice…the money will get spent either way, and yet we may be able to have more of a say in what happens with it, by choosing these charter schools. I am willing to make that choice and take that chance. Some of us do know what is not working, and those of you who are happy, happy, happy with the state of your schools today, can keep them.
November 4th, 2012
3:19 pm
Attentive Parent/Invisible Serfs Collar
November 4th, 2012
2:42 pm
I am compiling research now, what I do have supporting data for is that students who go through classes such as mine that include a strong project-based learning component score markedly higher the ITBS & CRCT. A weak argument I know but when the populace wants test scores, I'll give them test scores. What is not overtly apparent is that the strong kinesthetic learners do much better on my end-of-course tests than they did in the past when I had to make do with classroom demonstrations verses actual student-based lab activities. They are absorbing knowledge on par with the visual & auditory learners where in the past, that was not always the case.
November 4th, 2012
3:27 pm
This topic has been beat to death. I challenge anyone to say anything meaningful they haven't said before.
November 4th, 2012
3:31 pm
I will vote for a statewide charter schools appeal board that give voters the CHOICE of who serves, but never one that allows Nathan Deal to APPOINT his unaccountable cronies. Vote "NO" to Deal's cronies, and demand REAL choice in a 2014 taxpayer accountable amendment!
November 4th, 2012
3:33 pm
Sorry — add an "s" to "give" in the first line of my post. I'll proofread better next time, just as maybe our legislature will give us a better amendment if and when we reject this blatant attempt to give cronies the power to spend our tax dollars
November 4th, 2012
3:46 pm
Yes, and you are obviously not enlightened regarding this subject and during this critical period of Republican " anti-government, trickle-down economics mantra" especially here in Georgia. Educate yourself regarding the Georgia economic decline since the change to GOP and you will notice that unemployment in Georgia has been on a steep climb, from about 5 % to almost double today. Using my tax dollars to line the pockets of special interest is what this entire excercise is about. This is typical of the type of leadership that we have had in this state, under the GOP! Wake up Rip Van Winkles!!!
November 4th, 2012
3:58 pm
I've got some questions:
Do charter schools take away taxpayer dollars from public schools? (sounds like it)
Do parents of students attending charter schools have to pay additional money (in addition to their tax dollars) for tuition to these schools?
Just trying to get up to speed on this issue and looking for honest answers.
November 4th, 2012
4:02 pm
When Sis Henry, Herb Garrett and other educrats tell us that there's "big money to be made in schools," they ought to know. They've made plenty.
November 4th, 2012
4:02 pm
OMG, how could it be about anything but money??? Of course it is about the money!!
November 4th, 2012
4:06 pm
This is all about the egos of local school board members. There are local school boards all over the state who know they pretty much have their positions for life either because the voters are too uneducated to vote them out, or nobody else will run. They have no incentive whatsoever to do anything to improve failing schools in their communities because the state of Georgia is not inclined to take over a failing school system and you have to do something highly egregious to get SACS to consider pulling accreditation (i'm looking at you, Clayton, Dekalb and City of Atlanta). And yet their own egos will not allow a charter school to set up in their community because competition will require they step up and improve the public schools to compete. This is why the amendment is needed, because we have entirely too many adults in positions of power who are too interested in keeping their hands in the cookie jar and protecting their petty feifdoms instead of doing what is right for the education of the children.
November 4th, 2012
4:30 pm
Do you want the crooks and thieves in the gold dome to have control over your schools?
They will farm out your schools to the company offering the highest kickback to the corrupt unethical "Georgia government (term used very loosely").
Dirty deals, default motel loans and fish farms to name a few.
FACT: Amendment 1 CHANGES the CONSTITUTION and permanently alters the governing powers over schools in Georgia.
"We already have a mechanism in place (to approve charter schools). I really have a concern about putting in place another physical agency when we already have two in place to do the same thing." -state school Superintendent John Barge
Recall Nathan DEAL (governor loosely used term)
Please vte No on Amendment 1


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I'm a skinny girl, I always have been, blessed with one of those metabolisms that allows me to eat whatever I want with no apparent effect. Also, I've always been fairly pleased with my physical appearance and have no experience with eating disorders. So when it comes to body size issues, my usual policy is to keep my mouth shut. I'm pretty sure the experience of someone who is privileged in both size and self-esteem would not be reassuring to anyone who is experiencing real social problems related to appearance. In this article, Alexa Chung provides a pretty good example of how body talk is the one thing skinny girls can't pull off. Still, she's inspired me to give it a long shot.
I first befriended Danielle after I interviewed her for a story I wrote about 'it girls', so it's no surprise that when it comes to the ultimate early 2010s it girl, we disagree (albeit in a different way to our original discussion).
I liked Alexa Chung's comments last week about body snark and style iconhood. I thought they were honest, feisty, and yet another sign of a woman who is wisely ambivalent about the accolades she has been afforded for her ability to wear clothes well. Danielle, on the other hand, thought they were in bad taste; as she put it on Twitter, "Size talk is the one thing that skinny girls can't pull off."
The differences in our responses can be attributed partly to the fact that I read about Alexa's comments on Jezebel – which boiled the interview down to a couple of prize quotes about existing in a particular body shape not being the same thing as promoting it, and Alexa having ripped her prized fashion sense from Jane Birkin and Francoise Hardy – and Danielle reading them in their rather more rambly form on Fashionista.
But there are a few points she raises in her response that I'd like to respond to in turn.
'Skinny girl' privilege
Danielle argues that a skinny girl talking about size is like a multi-millionaire talking about money. Sound too pleased with your body and you're boasting; complain and people will think you're petulant and ungrateful. As a life-long "skinny girl" (which I am not), it's safe to say she is speaking from experience.
But I'm not wholly comfortable with the privilege she describes in her post. Or rather, I don't think it tells the whole story: either of the advantages of being a woman who remains pint-sized no matter what she eats, or the experience of standing at any other spot along the body type continuum.
If skinny girls "have every other advantage" (aside from the ability to speak openly about their body issues, or lack thereof), that raises the question of a) what kinds of advantages they have, and b) at what point the advantages of being a "skinny girl" kick in.
One advantage, I suppose, of being the kind of skinny Danielle is talking about might be never being plagued by the worry that you are "too fat". But I have known enough present and former models with histories of eating disorders to know that's not always the case.
I have also spent enough time around models to know that being tall and thin and having a great bone structure is not an instant formula for popularity, or a vaccination against feelings of physical awkwardness. The traits that win you a contract with an international modelling agency are not often the same traits that put you in the running for homecoming queen (or equivalent) when you're sixteen.
The point is, whether we look more like Alexa Chung, Lena Dunham or Rebel Wilson, we all have embodied experiences which are complex mixes of privilege and not-privilege, and each of those are valid. The Blake Lively-esque prom queens have their stories to tell, too: rarely as pretty or perfect as their outer visages would suggest.
The embodiment of the 'it girl'
I enjoyed Alexa's comment that, "You can appreciate my style without having to appreciate my weight. It's not actually mutually exclusive. I just get frustrated because just because I exist in this shape doesn't mean that I'm like advocating it."
And she's right. Just because she is naturally waif-like (even by model standards, going on other interviews I've read), doesn't mean she wants everyone else to be a waif, too. Nonetheless, Danielle is also right when she point out that "Chung owes her entire career to being appreciated for her appearance. Protesting that her size should have nothing to do with it is at best, naive, at worst, a calculated spin."
As I've written here before, style icons aren't just born through the clothes they wear on their bodies, but through the bodies that wear the clothes. And the widespread appreciation of Alexa Chung's wardrobe has as much to do with the shape and size of her body as it does with what she wears.
I don't think this makes her a hypocrite, and I don't think it makes her "thinspiration" (at least, not intentionally); she can't help the body that she was born into. But it is understandable why the women who were harassing Chung on Instagram were frustrated, even if their frustration was misdirected. In an age of smart phones, Instagram and lifestyle blogs, we are evaluated on our images more than ever.
When 'style icons' speak out
But the point I appreciated most about Alexa's interview with Fashionista was that she seemed so cynical and blasé about her "style icon" status. Take this quote: "I've been dragging my ass around castings for years without anyone saying, oh you've got unique style. I think it was very much a case of being in the right place in the right time. I've really just been ripping off Jane Birkin.Sorry, has no one else seen a picture of Françoise Hardy? Look it up. I'm just the middle man."
Loves it.
Danielle argues that "Chung is in the business of being judged on appearances, not intellect, and when she wanders into the world of words … she comes off as a sub-articulate babe in the woods." But I disagree.
Like most people with a superficial streak, I enjoy looking at pictures of pretty people in pretty clothing – and I do like the way Chung dresses - but it was only when I started reading interviews with her that I began to get an inkling that I might also like her as a human being. And the more I read, the more I like her.
She's honest. She's got that whole British self-effacing thing going on. She seems to get that her current position in this world is utterly bizarre. And while she might put her foot in it sometimes (don't we all), she seems like a genuine human being, rather than a carefully calculated brand.
Related: I can't be the only person who's noticed that so many of the women we're sold as role models don't actually DO all that much.
Sorry, that dress/jacket/pair of skinny jeans won't turn you into Chloe Sevigny
The secret lives of beautiful women
To Alexa or not to Alexa… (see also, Part Deux)
Elsewhere: My response to Alexa Chung and body image (Final Fashion)
Alexa Chung on body image (Fashionista)
Alexa Chung doesn't want to be your thinspo (Jezebel)