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I have nothing against Valentine's Day, but I also don't go crazy for the holiday, either. Tonight, my husband and I will go bowling, just like we do every Monday night. I even splurged and sent him a gift as unique and fun as our relationship (I'm sure he'll love his new Madagascar hissing cockroach at the Bronx Zoo, named "Jud"). So, in honor of Valentine's Day, I give you a geeky romantic roundup:
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Men's Golf: Svensson to Compete in Nova Scotia Open
HALIFAX, Canada -- Barry University sophomore men's golfer Adam Svensson received an amateur's exemption to compete in the web.com Tour's Nova Scotia Open July 3-6. Svensson will compete in his second professional event in as many summers on an exemption. Last summer he played in the PGA Tour's RBC Canadian Open on a sponsor's exemption. The Nova... read more
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MIAMI SHORES, Fla. -- Barry University women's tennis player Karina Goia was named a Third-Team Academic All-American as presented by Capital One and the College Sports Information Directors of America. Goia, an Arad, Romania, native, who completed her sophomore season with 16-1 singles and 23-4 doubles records, had a 3.9 in international... read more
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This is a nice opportunity for interns with an educational background to learn the basic fundamentals of teaching Argentinian children and gain some experience in their desired profession.
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Tango Thru Argentina
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Rio De Janeiro to Buenos Aires
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A 9 day snapshot of the two most exciting and vibrant cities in South America plus Iguazu Falls!
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Iberá Experience at Irupé Lodge
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Alberto Alvarez: Dr. Conrad Murray Stopped CPR on Michael Jackson to Hide Propofolby Free Britney at . Comments
Bodyguard Alberto Alvarez is making a shocking accusation against Dr. Conrad Murray, saying the doc halted CPR on Michael Jackson to hide vials of Propofol.
Alvarez, who called 911, told cops months after Jackson's death that Dr. Murray hid bottles of Propofol in a closet so that family and police wouldn't find them.
He told police he saw Dr. Murray running around the room hiding Propofol bottles in a closet near the room where the doctor administered the drug to Jackson.
This adds fuel to a prosecution theory that he covered up evidence.
According to Alvarez, Dr. Murray stopped doing CPR and handed Alvarez drug vials, instructing him to put them in a bag. Alvarez says he saw an IV in Jackson's leg.
He notes that Dr. Conrad Murray took Propofol vials and told Alvarez to put them in a plastic bag, then told Alvarez to put the plastic bag inside a canvas bag.
Alvarez also says Murray told him to remove the IV that contained a white milky substance (Propofol) in another canvas bag. Where the bags went is unclear.
Jackson's mouth and eyes were wide open but there was no sign of life. He was taken to the UCLA Medical Center where he was pronounced dead on June 25.
Alvarez also says that MJ's kids, Prince Michael and Paris, entered the room and cried as they watched Murray administer mouth-to-mouth on the lifeless star.
And there's this: After Jackson died, Murray said he needed to go back to the mansion to get cream Jackson had "so the world wouldn't find out about it."
Sources connected with Murray's defense say he hid nothing. Authorities found bottles of the anesthetic in what looks like a secret compartment of the closet.
Those sources say Alvarez's statement came two months after Jackson died and directly contradicts what the bodyguard told the police the day of MJ's death.
Murray sources say Alvarez never said anything about hiding Propofol at the scene. Dr. Murray told cops two days later where Propofol bottles could be found.
Law enforcement sources believe Murray connected a large bottle directly into the IV and a massive amount, which entered Jackson's system and killed him.
yea this is cynetta there was a lady that commented and said i quote :Micheal is the reason that micheals dead , and i figured that i would comment to say GOD is good all the time and who are u to judge we at the end have only one judge and thats the heavenly father
what a shame he thought more about getting rid of the drugs then to save michaels life.lets give this quack dr. some propofol and leave the room to make some calls. r.i.p. michael.
Whay I find absolutely astonishing is that in practically every comment, Dr Murray is being demonised...for his race, his girlfriend's 'greed',for allegedly committing murder etc. and yet not one person has been able to cope with the reality that Michael Jackson was a drug addict and had been for decades, long before Dr Murray entered his life. Michael used deceit, fraud, and his wealth and name to get what he wanted from a variety of naive and intimidated doctors. Michael is the reason that Michael is dead...deal with it!
MJ fans all we want is JUSTICE for Michael. That's all. Some people want to talk about Michael was a addict, or he asked for the propofol. I don't care. If Michael was a bum on the street he deserve better care than what he got from Conrad Murray. A doctor first oath is to do no harm. To think that he stop CPR to clean up his mess is disgusting. It showed he was thinking of his self only. Waiting to call 911. Where were the emergency equipment he ought to had in cause there were an emergency? He could had had someone there to watch Michael if he had to step out of the room. And then to think that Michael's kids might have saw what was going on. How terrible. Justice for Michael.
If this was done, Conrad Murray the quake doctor ought to be facing more than four years in prison. He ought to be facing anywhere from 15 to 20 years in prison. I just want Justice for Michael. His license should be taken in Texas and Vegas. To think that this man is allow to see patients is horrible. I am so glad Joe Jackson file a wrongful death suit against Murray. I don't want him to try to make a penny off of killing Michael. I was watching an 1993 video of Micheal when he was on the Soul Train Awards and he was performing his song "Remember the Time". He was in a chair because he had sprained his ankle. I looked at him there in that chair, smiling, and still thrilling the audience as only he can. That's how great he was. All I could say to myself, wow, we've lost something extra, extra, extra, special.
I am readinG every article on the passing of Michael JACKSON. AND IT DOES NOT LOOK GOOD FOR THE DR. 4 years of his life inside a prison and the lost of his job as a dr. What did michael do to him, when did he deside to kill him, why did he give him the drugs where did he get the idea? was it his girlfreind? who needed more money for her children. it must have been.
This is such a damn shame - he was only 50 and was a fantastic, talented entertainer............
he has been gone for 9 months an this murderer is still walking what is wrong with this world? i knew that doctor murdered mj the min i looked at him. an i am right. he needs to go to jail for life without ever a chance of getting out an whoever was involved should be punished too. the body guard i believe. he not gonna tell cops what he knows first time he talk to him if he was covering for that doctor. this is taking long time but let them take their time cuz more an more stuff will come against that doctor. u got that right luka. doctors are liars. they r pill pushers. i know they try to do it to me all the time. we can only hope that mj gets his justice
right after 911 my pastor told us to only go to american born and raised doctors.
Michael will be missed forever
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Steaks in New Brunswick, NJ
Hi Hounds,
We are staying at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick, NJ next Monday. We are meeting a cousin for dinner and he doesn't like "fancy food". So, we were thinking that we would take him out for a steak dinner. Does any one have any recommendations? Near the Hyatt would be a big plus.
There's a steakhouse on Raritan Avenue in Highland Park, across the bridge and up a few blocks from the Hyatt Regency. It's not a New York steakhouse, but then, it's not New York prices either. Never had the steak, but they do a pretty decent prime rib.
re: JoanN
I wouldn't subject even a non-foodie to Charlie Brown's, a chain that, in my view, serves barely mediocre food.
I'd suggest The Frog and the Peach, in New Brunswick. It's a very comfortable, attractive restaurant, with excellent New American cuisine. In the steak dept., there's a NY strip on the a la carte menu + one dish on their "Everyday Frog Bistro Menu" is a hanger steak, which I've had and found to be delicious.
re: RGR
I agree with you about CB in general, but the prime rib is really quite decent. And I think The Frog and the Peach is prententious and ridiculously overpriced. Different strokes. Hadn't heard of Arthur's Tavern (I'm only near New Brunswick every month or so when I head out to visit Mom). I'll have to look into it.
Nova Terra might be a good place to go. It serves a kind of nouveau Latin American cuisine that is still nonetheless very accessible for someone who does not like "fancy" food. I had a great flank steak there. Everyone I was with uniformly loved their meal. It was exotic without pushing at anyone's comfort zones too aggressively.
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If you really want to play it "safe," Old Man Rafferty's has something for everyone. But I think Nova Terra is more fun and much higher quality.
Charlie Brown's has its place, imho. It's just not something I would consider "special."
If you want Steak, the place to go is Arthur's Tavern on George's Road: http://www.arthurstavern.com/
re: cranrob
Just make sure you get there early, esp. on a weekend--it is always packed. But the steaks are really good, and very reasonable.
re: cranrob
Good steak + Not fancy = Arthur's
Arthur's can be spotty: sometime the steak is great, other times - take a pass. But the cost is reasonable so that needs to be put into the mix.
As to Charlie Brown's its a local chain and nothing special. (But there are other places in Highland Park which are quality chow hound types - Seven Hills (turkish), Tarverna Pithari (Greek) and Shushan Grill (Israeli Meat and Kosher) each of which are reasonable places with meat, though not steakhouse type.)
Assuming that you want to walk for a steak, any of the places mentioned: Frog, Nova Terra, Rafferty's would serve a good chut of beef. You could also consider Tumulty's on George Street - the ambiance is real old style pub, dark with lots of wood and basic quality food.
Personally, I would go for Nova Terra. The strip was good when I ate there recently, menu on all other aspects is great, nice bar and right accross the street from the Hotel.
re: Marcharlan
The o.p. is going to dinner next Monday, so Seven Hills is out because it's closed on Mondays. And I think that's also the case with Pithari Taverna.
I've worked in New Brunswick for a long time and Arthur's is a one trick pony, well, two if you count the burger, but it's a good one. Steak, burger, drinks. Oh yeah, the cole slaw is pretty good too.
Arthur's has changed ownership in the last several months. "Arthur" himself only owns the one in Hoboken area, not North Brunswick. I have heard from locals, including a former server, that steaks have changed, onion soup (My original favorite over ANY other) has changed dramatically, health food salad served at the tables is no more, etc. Prices have gone up AND my husband's Gift Certificate ($50) is not valid at this new Arthur's restaurant. The server said customers told her they wouldn't be coming back again and that the "old" Arthur's was so much better. It was definitely our favorite reasonably-priced steakhouse. My husband loved the fatty soft steak. I had the burgers...yum.
So, my question is...has anyone gone to Arthur's since October?
re: NJFoodie
UGH! This is bad news.
re: NJFoodie
They change everything that their customers loved about the place but expect to keep it going because they still call it Arthurs? What are they thinking?
Back to the OP, the only reasonably-priced steakhouse within a reasonable walking distance to the Hyatt is Tumulty's (2-3 blocks). I haven't been there in awhile, but they've been around for 50+ years, so they must be doing something good. I remember they serve a giant wedge of lettuce as their house salad.
We have been going to Arthurs Tavern in New Brunswick for 12 years. Lately wev'e been to the Hoboken and Emerson Arthurs however last week we returned to the New Brunswick restaurant for the first time since early summer. What happened? Everything good about Arthurs went sour. We were a group of six and no one got their steaks cooked the way they ordered them. These steaks by the way used to be a bargain. From 1995 to 2001 they went from $10.95 to $11.95. A small $1.00 increase in 6 years. In the next 5 years they have increased from $11.95 to $21.95. Thats a huge $10.00 increase which was furthur compounded by the sad quality of the badly cooked fatty steaks that we received. I am actually happy to hear that Arthur still owns the steakhouse in Hoboken. We will be delighted to drive the extra miles to get there to go back to enjoying the real Arthurs expeience.


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I have system stability problems for a long time. I always thought it was my TV tuner card, but now that I have it removed, the problems still persist.
The system can run fine for some days (in which I boot up every morning), and suddenly be heaviliy instable on some days: black screen during bios boot, Windows crashes or reboots during boot, or the blue bios setup freezes, or a reboot in the blue bios setup. During these problems, I have to remove power from the PC a number of times, wait, try again etc. Or simply leave it off for some hours and then try it again. The problems seem to be called "cold boot problems" in by some users in similar cases.
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-RAM: 4 GB total, Kingston KVR1333D3N9K2/4G (kit of 2 modules)
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-PSU: Seasonic M12 II Bronze 620W (previous PSU: Seasonic S12-430, 430W had similar problems, if I'm correct)
-OS: Windows 7 64bit
-BIOS: set to default, except: serial port disabled, firewire disabled, and AHCI mode instead of IDE mode.
Memtest runs without problems for at least 8 hours during a test. Maybe it won't run normal when the system is instable, although a quick test using Windows 7 memtest, didn't show any problems on a single run.
I replaced hard disks, so that should also not be the problem. Also tried different sata and power cables. Also reinstalled Windows numerous times. It shouldn't be Windows related, because the BIOS setup itself is even instable during instability.
The memory modules that I have are not explicitly mentioned in the Asus memory QVL, although a similar module is: KVR1333D3N9/1G, which is probably a single 1GB module. So I would expect that the KVR1333D3N9K2/4G (2x2gb) should also work, but I could be wrong. But the KVR1333D3N9K2 was also listed at tweakers.net's best buy guide in combination with this motherboard.
I think the problem is related to: ram, motherboard or gpu or a combination of these or a related bios setting.
Any advice about what I can try?
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Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Is there an Asus program for your MB that monitors voltages and temps?
I have something called Asus PC Probe II that does that, but I haven't used it in a long time. Has alarms I think.
Might try that. Since it shows itself even when in BIOS I would first suspect power supply or the MB itself. Just guessing of course.
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WHITING Tina M. Jerome, 42, formerly of East Middlebury, died Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, at Porter Hospital, Middlebury.
Born in Rutland, Jan. 19, 1971, she was the daughter of Linwood C. and Barbara J. (McGraw) Kennett.
Mrs. Jerome was a homemaker and enjoyed horses.
Survivors include her husband, Perley J. Jerome of Whiting, whom she married July 28, 2007; a son, Linwood Kennett of Bristol, and a daughter, Tiffany Kennett of Whiting; her mother of Shoreham; 11 siblings, William Corey, Byrene Bower, both of Danby, Wayne Corey of Shoreham, Dean Kennett, Beverly Burch, both of Bomoseen, John Kennett of New York, Belinda Burchard of Middlebury, Mary Beth Hire of West Rutland, Lynn Ann Shea of Granville, Amy Kennett of Florida and Diana Hill of Pawlet; a granddaughter; many nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was predeceased by her father.
There will be no calling hours.
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Two Language and Culture Centers Receive $3 Million in Federal Grants
The Center for European Studies (CES) and the Texas Language Technology Center (TLTC) at The University of Texas at Austin have been awarded federal grants totaling more than $3 million to establish new language and culture centers that will allow them to strengthen their role as national leaders in their fields.
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A new, first-of-its-kind language center will help develop standards and benchmarks for teaching foreign languages at The University of Texas at Austin and serve as a resource for faculty and departments.
Bias against languages other than English hurts students, says scholar
Say What?: "When students who have limited English language proficiency fall behind in school or score poorly on important tests, teachers may assume they have learning disabilities," says Dr. Alba Ortiz, professor of special education in The University of Texas at Austin's College of Education.


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Monday, June 2, 2014
When Betty Cox became superintendent of the Rapides Parish School System in 1994, it didn't take long before she started stepping on the toes of certain board members — namely the ones who'd become accustomed to using their political sway to their own benefit.
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|Superintendent Pat Cooper
Much the same happened when Superintendent Pat Cooper arrived in Lafayette Parish in 2012.
Upon taking the job, Cox — like Cooper — soon discovered that board members had a long-standing tradition of telling principals who to hire. Cox also learned that several board members had been abusing the school system's long distance telephone service, racking up charges for hours and hours of personal calls. And one board member, who worked for the school system before being elected, used his position in the special education department to purchase equipment for the school system from a local non-profit for which he served as a board member.
Cox quickly put an end to the abuses, but the board, backed by its attorney at the time, Bob Hammonds — the same Bob Hammonds who now serves as interim general counsel for the Lafayette Parish School Board — responded by terminating her in 1996. Though Cox had three board members who supported her efforts to clean up the school system of its political graft, all it took was a six-vote majority, and she was gone.
Cox, however, fought the board, and eventually her case made it to federal court where she argued the board's decision was based on bias and retribution for her putting an end to some members' long-held abuses of the system. The federal court sided with Cox, writing in its decision: "In sum, the record in the case unfolds like a soap opera. The respective views of the parties were regularly aired out in the print and broadcast media in the Rapides Parish area. One need only make a cursory review of the exhibits and the testimony to get a clear impression of the rancor and deeply held views of the aforementioned school board members prior to the discharge hearing."
Pat Cooper probably has a good idea what Cox went through.
Even from the start in late-2011, four members of the school board already had their minds made up about Cooper: Board member Rae Trahan refused to participate in the numerous interviews held during the selection process for a new superintendent following the retirement of former Superintendent Burnell Lemoine (she did, however, manage one out of town trip to visit another candidate for the job). It wasn't until the board convened to cast its final vote to approve Cooper's hire that Trahan showed her face.
Another case of the board's early resistance came from then-board President Mark Allen Babineaux, who attempted to put a stop to Cooper's superintendency before it ever started. After learning that Cooper couldn't start full-time until May 2012, Babineaux acted behind-the-scenes, and without board approval relayed a message to Cooper through LPSS's then-marketing director that the new superintendent must begin the job starting Jan. 1, 2012. The board's five majority members eventually caught wind of Babineaux's scheme and brought Cooper back into the running for the job.
Cooper's selection did not put an end to his problems with the board.
Like Cox's troubles in Rapides Parish, Cooper's real issues started when he overhauled the maintenance and custodial departments — where for decades employees abusing the system had been status quo. Cooper responded with the hire of Thad Welch as the school system's new maintenance/transportation supervisor, and Welch quickly cleaned house.
The problem: Welch's lack of a high school diploma, which has since become the cause célèbre among Cooper's detractors and the impetus behind an investigation launched last year into alleged misconduct by the superintendent.
The investigation started with a resolution last year from board member Rae Trahan, and was temporarily put on hold because of a recommendation from Assistant District Attorney Roger Hamilton to the state attorney general. Trahan's resolution to hire the Gretna-based law firm of Grant & Barrow to investigate the superintendent didn't match up with the requirements of state law, primarily because it didn't specify the reasons or give a fixed cost for the probe. So Hamilton, the board's free legal counsel, informed the AG's office that the investigation wasn't warranted. The board responded by terminating its relationship with the DA's office and hiring Hammonds & Sills as its interim legal counsel.
The law firm of Grant & Barrow pulled out of the investigation, saying it did not have time to do the work, but the board pushed forward and received approval from the AG's office to hire Baton Rouge attorney Dennis Shelton Blunt to investigate Cooper. Blunt, a former attorney with Hammonds & Sills, has experience with investigating superintendents.
In 2012, Blunt was hired by the Monroe City School Board to investigate then-Superintendent Kathleen Harris. Though the Lafayette Parish School Board has never officially stated what its investigation will entail, a public records request submitted to Cooper's office by Grant & Barrow shortly before its resignation shows a number of similarities with the Monroe City School Board's investigation of its superintendent, focusing on Harris' handling of personnel matters — much like Cooper's refusal to fire Welch over his lack of a high school diploma and his hiring of several principals of low-performing schools at higher pay rates.
Neither Cox nor Harris (her attorney declined comment and promised to get a message to her) returned calls for this story. Cox eventually obtained her law degree and is now a professor of school law and educational leadership at the University of Tennessee at Martin. (Click here for a May 2009 case study she co-authored for The School Administrator examining the legal battles between superintendents and school boards throughout the country.)
Blunt's investigation for the Monroe City School Board lasted three months, cost the school system more than $58,000, and resulted in nine charges being brought against Harris. A hearing was called by the board, but Harris responded by filing a motion in district court, which eventually made its way to federal court, calling for an injunction based on bias among board members.
The court ultimately ruled against Harris, but not before she received more than $100,000 in a buyout from the school board.
Hammonds' role with the Rapides Parish School Board and its fight with former Superintendent Cox shows how bias can oust a superintendent — exactly what the Lafayette Parish School Board is pushing for in its case against Cooper. This board wants him fired, an underlying motive revealed in a recent letter from Hammonds to the AG's office requesting approval to hire Blunt for the investigation.
"As you are probably aware, school superintendents in Louisiana are hired by their respective school boards and may be fired by those same school boards," writes Hammonds. "Before a superintendent can be terminated, however, he is entitled 'to written charges and a fair hearing before the board after reasonable notice.' Before a school board determines whether charges should be brought against a superintendent and a hearing should be conducted, it needs to be in a position to conduct an independent investigation. Without the ability to obtain special counsel to conduct such investigation, a school board is powerless to pursue disciplinary action against a superintendent no matter how egregious his/her conduct might be."
From the outset, board members Trahan, Babineaux, Tommy Angelle and Greg Awbrey made it clear they did not want Cooper.
Margaret Trahan, director of the United Way of Acadiana and a founding member of the Lafayette Parish Public Education Stakeholders Council — a diverse group of community stakeholders devoted to bettering education for Lafayette Parish — played a pivotal role in the interview process for a superintendent back in 2011. Trahan never understood why the four board members were against Cooper from the start, saying they did not explain their opposition.
"LaPESC was never involved in the voting for superintendent, but we did recommend three names, one being Dr. Cooper, and five board members voted for Dr. Cooper," says UW's Trahan. "There were also four who didn't, and I never knew why. But Dr. Cooper has since come in and engaged this community in planning in a way that's never been done before. The Turnaround Plan is the result of community task forces and the fact that he made good on his promises. He called those task forces together, got hundreds of people involved, and for the first time in a long time, we have a plan that the community helped create and endorses and he's trying to carry it out."
With two more board members having entered the anti-Cooper camp, the number of potential votes for his termination has risen to six, which means the board has the votes to terminate him. All it needs is for Blunt to come up with something. The investigation is expected to take about three months, and with school board elections in November, time will be of the essence as reform-minded candidates are already lining up to oppose the six members pushing for the probe of the superintendent. (The three board members who support Cooper — Kermit Bouillion, Shelton Cobb and Mark Cockerham — have yet to draw opposition in the upcoming election.)
"If they terminate him, I think the people would be pretty angry," says UW's Trahan. "He has a lot of support in the community by regular people. The people like his ideas; they believe in what he's trying to do, so those board members, I think, see it as a political struggle.
"There would be a lot of anger, and I think the backlash would be pretty huge against those who voted to terminate him," continues Trahan. "There's probably been missteps on both sides, but there's always room to improve the relationship. I don't see the need for an investigation. Mediation. Workshops to build trust. Those steps could be taken. I don't get the feeling that the board members are trying to make it work. I know Cooper has gotten angry and said things he shouldn't, but I definitely don't think it's grounds for termination."
Jason El Koubi, president and CEO of the Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce, also opposes the investigation and is pushing for major changes with the upcoming election season.
"There's a remarkable degree of consensus in the community on what everyone wants," says El Koubi. "The approach that the school board has taken, not just with this investigation, but on several other issues, is unfair, and is damaging to our community. The open-ended approach to investigating Dr. Cooper is irresponsible."
Instead of hiring an outside law firm for a potentially costly endeavor, the board should instead be working with the superintendent to iron out its issues, El Koubi says, also noting that the resolution fails to meet the requirements of state law because the board has refused to clarify the reasons for the investigation. Exacerbating the issue, maintains El Koubi, is the current budget crisis — an estimated $18 million deficit. The investigation will divert much-needed financial resources away from educating students, he says.
"The vast majority of the disagreement has nothing to do with educating our children," says El Koubi. "We've been doing a lot of research, and what works in other communities where they have highly effective school systems all depends on strong board leadership, which means vision, being driven, respectful, informed by data, being accountable to results, and most importantly, being committed to putting students first. Instead, the focus of some our board members has shifted from their appropriate role of governance to management issues, which is the responsibility of the superintendent."
He's right. Act 1, which passed in 2012 just as Cooper took the reigns of the school system, has been at the center of the fight with the school board. And like it or not, Act 1 ultimately transferred powers previously held by school board members, including the authority to hire and fire, into the hands of the superintendents.
Nathan Roberts, a former Lafayette Parish School Board attorney in the '90s who now teaches education law at UL Lafayette, says that despite the controversy surrounding Act 1 — which has been contested on two fronts with both cases awaiting decisions by the state Supreme Court — the law, in some shape or form, will remain.
"Even if Act 1 gets nullified, I think a lot of the components will be put back in the law," says Roberts, adding that the personnel powers granted to superintendents has proven one of the most positive aspects of the law.
"The law is good in a lot of places, especially where you had board members sticking their hands in places where they shouldn't," explains Roberts. "If it stops that part, with board members micro-managing, then it's a good thing. The superintendent is supposed to be your expert, at least until you run into this issue where the board disagrees, and then you have this big fight between the superintendent and the board over whether they have the authority to make a change. And that's not good for anybody. It's not productive for the citizens or the students, and it makes it much harder to pass a tax or to get the people to approve anything if they don't see some positive action."
For now, though, Cooper still has to contend with the possibility that Blunt's investigation will be presented to the board prior to November's elections, and that the board just may make a move for his termination.
Yet, if that were to happen, Cooper, just like Superintendent Cox, can certainly argue bias.
For starters, board member Babineaux, an attorney, tried to derail Cooper's superintendency before it ever started and was targeted in a complaint filed by Cooper with the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board for breaching the confidentiality of an executive session held Oct. 16, 2013.
And board member Tehmi Chassion, whose personal distaste for the superintendent has been well documented over the last year and a half, mostly by this publication, phoned the police on Cooper during a school board meeting, alleging the superintendent yelled in his ear, grabbed his shoulder and spun him around in his swivel chair during an executive session. In addition, there is also the matter of Chassion attempting to award Southern Benefit Services a contract as the school system's third party health plan administrator, which would have financially benefited his half-brother, City-Parish Councilman Brandon Shelvin.
For the chamber's El Koubi, November marks the changing point for the school system. "With the election of a new school board just a few months away, I think we have a real opportunity to rally around a common vision," he says.
Hopefully Cooper can hang on until then.


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