| Board of Education submits $466.4M budget
FREDERICK -- In a perfect world, the Frederick County Board of Education would get every cent of its $466.4 million request for the fiscal 2008 operating budget. In reality, the amount of money the school system receives from county, state and federal funds likely will fall below the initial request. "(There is) almost no likelihood of full funding of our budget," Executive Director for Fiscal Services Harold Keller, Jr. told the board Wednesday during a planning session where they discussed and amended the budget. The budget, which is $54.7 million, or 13.3 percent, more than last year's, includes: $8.4 million in administration costs $175.7 million in instructional salaries $19 million for transportation The school board forwarded the proposed budget to the county commissioners Thursday.
Imagination and creativity bring Fender Center for Music Education ...
When establishing a non-profit organization, there are two very important things needed to make the difference between it becoming an ordinary organization, and an organization that sparkles like a rare canary diamond. Those two elements are a little imagination, and a lot of creativity. That is exactly what Corona's Fender Center for Music Education possesses.Founded in July of 1997, the Fender Center for Music Education was created to instill a love of music in children between the ages of 7 and 17-years-old. With the amount of music education programs being cut in public schools, and the high price of music lessons, the Center offers a venue where children can experience music first-hand, even if they come from underprivileged families, and do not have the means for expensive music and/or vocal lessons.
Group launches public school parent blog
(STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE) -- They said their voices weren't being heard, but at least now their message can be seen. Education advocates have created what they're calling New York City's first public school parent blog in order to challenge what they view as Department of Education misinformation, media inaccuracy and a false perception in other cities that parents here are pleased with mayoral control of public schools. "I want everybody to have a forum to really express their views of what's happened here in New York City over the past six years," said Leonie Haimson, of the advocacy group Class Size Matters, who helped create the blog along with colleague Patrick Sullivan. The blog (short for weblog) hosts have secured noted education historian Diane Ravitch as a regular contributor, and have invited about 15 other education experts to do the same.
Lender/University Entanglements
Three years ago, the University of Nebraska's Board of Regents, eager to find more funds for undergraduate need-based financial aid for students at its flagship campus in Lincoln, struck a deal in which the National Education Loan Network, would provide loan funds that the university would administer to its graduate and professional students. As part of the arrangement, authorized through a process known as “school as lender," Nelnet, as the Lincoln-based lender is known, would give the institution more than 6 percent of the profits to use for need-based aid. .
Robert A. Marsland, an 18-Year-Old Wisconsin High School Student ...
NEW YORK, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Robert A. Marsland, an 18-year-old senior at St. Ambrose Academy in Madison, Wisconsin, outperformed 49 other national vocabulary high school scholars today, winning the first-ever GSN National Vocabulary Championship. As the national champion, Marsland won $40,000 toward a 529 higher education savings plan, a commemorative trophy and the title of National Vocabulary Champion. GSN will air a one-hour special based on the NVC finale Sunday, April 15, 8 PM ET/PT. Several prominent dignitaries were on hand to support the NVC finale held at The New York Public Library, among them: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education Ray Simon, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education Joel Klein and New York Library President Paul LeClerc, all of whom made opening remarks.
`Support Congress in UP polls'
"Cut down your expenditure and invest more in education," he said. The meeting adopted a 13-point resolution seeking separate Dalit universities on the pattern of Aligarh Muslim University; land and loan facilities to Dalit non-government organisations to open educational institutes; unemployment allowance to all SC and ST graduates and postgraduates and reservation in private sector among other things. Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit observed that the policies meant for the welfare of the poor were not being implemented properly . AICC secretary Jai Kishan said the policies of the Congress had made it possible for the Dalits to rise to positions of power. Printer friendly page
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NLN Establishes Academy of Nursing Education Fellow Program to ...
New York, NY (PRWeb) March 2, 2007 -- The National League for Nursing announced today an historic step in academic nursing education, the founding of the Academy of Nursing Education. Individuals inducted into the academy will be designated as Fellow, Academy of Nursing Education and entitled to use the approved credential.
Explains NLN president Dr. Toni Bargagliotti, "The purpose of the academy is to foster excellence in nursing education by recognizing and capitalizing on the wisdom of outstanding individuals in and outside the profession who have contributed to nursing education in sustained and significant ways. Fellows are expected to provide visionary leadership in nursing education and in the Academy of Nursing Education, and to support the vision of the NLN."
Applicants for fellowship in the Academy of Nursing Education must: show evidence of contributions to nursing education in teaching/learning innovations, faculty development, research in nursing education, leadership in nursing education, public policy related to nursing education, and/or collaborative education/practice/community partnerships; elucidate how they will continue to provide visionary leadership in nursing education and in the Academy; be current members of the National League for Nursing (individually or through their schools or agencies).
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