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Separatists in India's north-eastern state of Manipur have shot six male teachers in the leg for allegedly helping students cheat in exams. Two women teachers were beaten with sticks for the same offence, the rebels of the Kanglei Yana Kan Lup group said. The teachers were abducted from their homes after an exam on Thursday. The rebels said the teachers took up to 5,000 rupees ($110) for helping students cheat and warned of further punishment if the cheating continued. The Kanglei Yana Kan Lup (KYKL) is one of many separatist groups fighting Indian administration in Manipur. It said it abducted the eight teachers from their homes in and around the state capital, Imphal, because of reports they had taken bribes. --By Subir Bhaumik - BBC |
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| QUERY THE SUPE & THE PR GUY |
TO:
KATHY COX-GEORGIA
SUP'T OF SCHOOLS &
CEO-GEORGIA DOE
CC:
DANA TOFIG-
GEORGIA DOE
PUBLIC INFO. OFCR.
DATE: JAN. 22, 2006
Can you please send me
the annual dollar
amount for each school
year (the five annual fiscal
cycles 2000-2005) that the
Georgia Public Schools
DOE has spent with
vendor Computer
Consulting Services
Corp., described as a
consultant to Georgia's
DOE.
KATHY COX-GEORGIA
SUP'T OF SCHOOLS &
CEO-GEORGIA DOE
CC:
DANA TOFIG-
GEORGIA DOE
PUBLIC INFO. OFCR.
DATE: JAN. 22, 2006
Can you please send me
the annual dollar
amount for each school
year (the five annual fiscal
cycles 2000-2005) that the
Georgia Public Schools
DOE has spent with
vendor Computer
Consulting Services
Corp., described as a
consultant to Georgia's
DOE.
| STATUS: No response rec'd from Sup't Gray as of Dec. 20, 2006 |
| QUERY THE SUPE (& CC THE BOARD) |
DATE FIRST SENT:
FEB. 14, 2006
RE-SENT 03/26/06
Dear Strongsville
Superintendent
James Gray:
I'm hoping you can
clear something up for
me for my book and
website regarding your
standards for
administrative
practices in
Strongsville as there
have been not one but
two situations this past
year warranting
scrutiny....
Regarding special ed
teacher Christine
Scarlett's offering a
date with herself as a
grades incentive
1. What rules/
guidelines do you now
have in place to
assure that nothing
like this happens
again? Would these
be administrative
changes or has your
board set specific
policies in place for
you to follow in future?
2. Rumors of an affair
between Scarlett and
Bradigan persisted for
several months. You
have stated that you
have no idea such an
affair was going on.
Do you feel the fact
that you are
commuting from your
home in Akron (if this
has changed, please
let me know) has
adversely impacted
your ability to monitor
what's going on with
your employees in the
Strongsville
community in an
important and
sensitive area such as
this? Has your board
since made a
condition of your
employment that you
move to Strongsville
and become an
integral part of their
community?
Regarding the sex
education booklet
placed last fall in
young children's
lockers
4. What guidelines
did you follow from
your established
board's policies for
such?
5. There appears to
be a growing number
of parents who want to
be consulted before
such materials are
given to their students.
As one mom put it,
"What's wrong with so
many people in the
educational fields that
they don't even think
twice about providing
children with
inappropriate
materials and not even
consider the parents
wishes....Their tactics
mirror those used in
Communist China and
Cuba where children
are considered not
children of parents, but
wards of the State."
While this is clearly the
statement of an upset
parent, it does raise an
interesting issue
regarding public
school administrators
in the U.S. Do you
consider the students
in your schools yours
to educate as you
deem best or the
offspring of parents to
be consulted before
disseminating such
materials?
Regarding trainings
and conferences
6. Of which
education-related
associations are you
and Strongsville City
Schools a member?
What are these
organizations'
guidelines for
disseminating such
materials?
7. In which
education-related
conferences have
your and your staff
participated this past
year? Where were
they and what were
the costs for each?
Have you attended any
other seminars,
workshops or the like
offering guidance in
this area, and what
were those costs?
It may well be that
there are perfectly
reasonable
explanations for your
approving the placing
sex-education
pamphlets in young
students' lockers
without notifying
parents first, and it may
also well be that there
is a perfectly
reasonable
explanation for your
allowing a teacher to
offer a date at the Dairy
Queen with herself to a
young student; if so, I
am eager to learn such
reason or reasons.
==================
She said the booklet,
which also provides
information on the need for
parental consent for
abortion and a Web
address for the
Lesbian/Gay Community
Service Center of Greater
Cleveland, is
inappropriate for
11-year-olds. I believe
some sex education needs
to be given, but when
subjects are discussed or
material is given to kids of
this nature, a notice
should be sent home to
the parent and they should
be allowed to opt out of
the program if they wish,
Fleming said. School
Superintendent James
Gray said he gave an OK
for the pocket-sized
directories, which were
provided to the district by
United Way Services in
conjunction with the
county health department
and county commissioners,
to be given to students at
the high school, middle
schools and to sixth
graders. Gray said he
received two calls from
parents who took
exception to the booklet's
content. I understand that
and probably, in
retrospect, I should have
considered sending a
letter along with it as far
as an explanation, he
said, adding, this is a
developing situation. I
don't know what we are
going to do at this point.
Colleen Grady, a city
resident and a member of
the state school board,
said she got calls from four
parents concerned about
their children getting the
directory. Grady, who is
also a former city school
board member, said she
has not personally seen
the publication, but they
(parents) read me sections
over the telephone. She
said the state board of
education may wish to
make a legislative
recommendation to the
Ohio general assembly,
and the board could also
consider discussion about
adoption of a model policy
for the distribution of such
materials. Gray said there
will be continued
discussion, in the district's
curriculum and pupil
services departments on
whether to curtail
distribution of materials
which are considered to
be sensitive, particularly
for the younger kids.
FEB. 14, 2006
RE-SENT 03/26/06
Dear Strongsville
Superintendent
James Gray:
I'm hoping you can
clear something up for
me for my book and
website regarding your
standards for
administrative
practices in
Strongsville as there
have been not one but
two situations this past
year warranting
scrutiny....
Regarding special ed
teacher Christine
Scarlett's offering a
date with herself as a
grades incentive
1. What rules/
guidelines do you now
have in place to
assure that nothing
like this happens
again? Would these
be administrative
changes or has your
board set specific
policies in place for
you to follow in future?
2. Rumors of an affair
between Scarlett and
Bradigan persisted for
several months. You
have stated that you
have no idea such an
affair was going on.
Do you feel the fact
that you are
commuting from your
home in Akron (if this
has changed, please
let me know) has
adversely impacted
your ability to monitor
what's going on with
your employees in the
Strongsville
community in an
important and
sensitive area such as
this? Has your board
since made a
condition of your
employment that you
move to Strongsville
and become an
integral part of their
community?
Regarding the sex
education booklet
placed last fall in
young children's
lockers
4. What guidelines
did you follow from
your established
board's policies for
such?
5. There appears to
be a growing number
of parents who want to
be consulted before
such materials are
given to their students.
As one mom put it,
"What's wrong with so
many people in the
educational fields that
they don't even think
twice about providing
children with
inappropriate
materials and not even
consider the parents
wishes....Their tactics
mirror those used in
Communist China and
Cuba where children
are considered not
children of parents, but
wards of the State."
While this is clearly the
statement of an upset
parent, it does raise an
interesting issue
regarding public
school administrators
in the U.S. Do you
consider the students
in your schools yours
to educate as you
deem best or the
offspring of parents to
be consulted before
disseminating such
materials?
Regarding trainings
and conferences
6. Of which
education-related
associations are you
and Strongsville City
Schools a member?
What are these
organizations'
guidelines for
disseminating such
materials?
7. In which
education-related
conferences have
your and your staff
participated this past
year? Where were
they and what were
the costs for each?
Have you attended any
other seminars,
workshops or the like
offering guidance in
this area, and what
were those costs?
It may well be that
there are perfectly
reasonable
explanations for your
approving the placing
sex-education
pamphlets in young
students' lockers
without notifying
parents first, and it may
also well be that there
is a perfectly
reasonable
explanation for your
allowing a teacher to
offer a date at the Dairy
Queen with herself to a
young student; if so, I
am eager to learn such
reason or reasons.
==================
She said the booklet,
which also provides
information on the need for
parental consent for
abortion and a Web
address for the
Lesbian/Gay Community
Service Center of Greater
Cleveland, is
inappropriate for
11-year-olds. I believe
some sex education needs
to be given, but when
subjects are discussed or
material is given to kids of
this nature, a notice
should be sent home to
the parent and they should
be allowed to opt out of
the program if they wish,
Fleming said. School
Superintendent James
Gray said he gave an OK
for the pocket-sized
directories, which were
provided to the district by
United Way Services in
conjunction with the
county health department
and county commissioners,
to be given to students at
the high school, middle
schools and to sixth
graders. Gray said he
received two calls from
parents who took
exception to the booklet's
content. I understand that
and probably, in
retrospect, I should have
considered sending a
letter along with it as far
as an explanation, he
said, adding, this is a
developing situation. I
don't know what we are
going to do at this point.
Colleen Grady, a city
resident and a member of
the state school board,
said she got calls from four
parents concerned about
their children getting the
directory. Grady, who is
also a former city school
board member, said she
has not personally seen
the publication, but they
(parents) read me sections
over the telephone. She
said the state board of
education may wish to
make a legislative
recommendation to the
Ohio general assembly,
and the board could also
consider discussion about
adoption of a model policy
for the distribution of such
materials. Gray said there
will be continued
discussion, in the district's
curriculum and pupil
services departments on
whether to curtail
distribution of materials
which are considered to
be sensitive, particularly
for the younger kids.
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| From top left: Walsh Anderson's Mark Goulet; Burnet CISD supe Jeffrey Hanks; Citrus County SD supe Sandra Himmel; Edgar Friedrichs, Jr. as a young teacher; Jessica Lunsford; John Evander Couie |
| TRANSPARENCY TOTAL NOW APPROACHING $750 MILLION YEARLY By Peyton Wolcott First Posted Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2006 - 2 am With Marble Falls ISD's commitment at Monday night's board meeting to posting its check register online, the total number of school district dollars more transparent to parents and taxpayers is fast approaching three-quarters of a billion dollars. Full report coming in January. |
| Friends, I resisted doing this until someone asked me to. In the end, it's useful to look at where we've been in order to better decide where we're going next. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year--and for every school district in America to post their check registers online voluntarily within the next 12 months! -- Peyton (Dec. 19, 2006) |
| There were some common themes running throughout public education in 2006: Side consulting by supes--San Antonio's Richard Bocanegra owned and operated a day-car last year while also serving as Edgewood ISD's supe, and several ERDI consultants were in the news again and again: Arlene Ackerman, Billy Cannaday Jr., Rudy Crew, Andre Hornsby, Leonard Merrell, Hector Montenegro, Monte Moses. Abundant lessons to be learned from Roslyn's $11.2 million "orgy of spending" (by then-supe Frank Tassone and then-buziness manager Pamela Gluckin) and New York Comptroller Alan Hevesi's subsequent audit of other school districts, most bearing a common thread: The need to strengthen internal controls. The faulty logic behind making superintendents part of the elected trustees' "leadership team," or as they're called here in Texas, "The Team of Eight." Reports on teacher-student-sex and its variation, coach-student-sex, plus tracking former Pasadena (California) USD volunteer John Whitaker-Betances' hearing dates through the year. Ending on a positive note, we launched the National School District Honor Roll in October to honor districts willing to take a first big important step towards transparency by posting their check registers online; as of this week, almost $750 million in Texas edu-spending is more transparent to parents and taxpayers thanks to districts' checks being posted online. |
| Here's a comprehensive review: Jan. 2 - With San Francisco USD supe Arlene Ackerman intent on collecting a $375,000 settlement on her way out SFUSD's door, I asked her--quoting from the first of her five core beliefs posted on the district's website, "Children come first,"--if the kids really do come first, why not leave the cash on the table in the school district? Ackerman replied that it was "a severance clause is standard practice in superintendents’ contracts around the state and country." My response: Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Rather than further lining Ackerman's pockets, $375,000 could have paid ten teachers' salaries for one year. Late January - After profiling NYPS' Brooklyn Technical High School's principal Lee McCaskill in late January, then faxing chancellor Joel Klein and NYPS public relations executives asking for answers, NYPS accepted McCaskill's resignation on Feb. 6. Ironically, the charges against McCaskill were not his administrative failures but the fact that he lived in New Jersey and sent his daughter illegally to NYPS using a false address; all other NYPS employees were granted a two-month window of amnesty on this same issue. More here, under "Tracy Atkins-Zoughlami. www.peytonwolcott.com/AdminEdAsAz.html Feb. 5 - Reported that "Despite 16 counts of theft, one count of fraud, three counts of misspent public monies and 20 counts of conflicts of interest . . . Santa Cruz County school superintendent Robert Canchola . . . is still at work at his job, a $56,400/year elected position." www.peytonwolcott.com/commentary020506-032706.html Feb. 23 - Launched www.peytonwolcott.com nationally. Mar. 4 - Remember Colorado geography teacher Jay Bennish? We broke the news that his boss, Cherry Creek School District's supe Monte Moses, was AASA's 2005 national "Superintendent of the Year." |
| Arlene Ackerman (top); Jardiniere, one of her favorite San Francisco USD taxpayer-funded haunts, judging from her $45,000 Diners Club bill. |
| Apr. 26 - After pointing on the 24th that the report Texas SBOE member (and bilingual ed advocate) Mary Helen Berlanga so often touted was actually authored by her husband David Berlanga and funded by the Texas Education Agency which the SBOE governs, Mary Helen no-showed this date on her own SBOE agenda item (to again discuss bilingual ed). Apr. 25 - Called supes "the rock stars of public education." Judging from feedback, they appear to love the analogy, leading us to assume most supes want to be rock stars. Apr. 27 - Reported ethical considerations involved when supes and other administrators live outside their districts. |
| Homes belonging to Katy ISD vendor Xpediant executives funded by corporate loans. |
| May 1 - Published report on supe Rudy Crew's not-much investigation into Miami-Dade County PS phony teacher credentials scandal which came to light through the efforts of whistleblower Bennett Packman. May 23 - Reported "What Scott Morgan told Bellaire Public Schools (Michigan) in his job interview last year versus what he actually should have said." www.peytonwolcott.com/comment ary051306-060806.html June 5 - Only member of the press at former Bremond ISD supe James Kenneth Johnson's pre-trial, at which his attorney no-showed; published the only photos of his pre-trial and mug shot from prison. www.peytonwolcott.com/Bremond JohnsonPlea.html www.peytonwolcott.com/Bremond JohnsonSentenced.html |
| Katy ISD supe Leonard Merrell's (right on CSPAN) "equestrian estate" built not in Katy ISD but in Waller ISD, where the school taxes were much lower. |
| Former Bremond supe Kenny Johnson leaving pre-trial hearing (L); leaving sentencing in handcuffs (PHOTO/Nancy Gadbois); mug shot in prison; Bremond ISD; pastoral scene minutes from town |
| June 8 - Scooped the New York Times' reporting on Texas Governor Rick Perry's so-called property tax break; the Times printed Perry's press release as fact and I researched the issues, including going back to the House Research Organization's original report. Headlines as of this writing--late December--have proven me right. June 21 - At former PUSD volunteer (and would-be Viet Nam vet) John Whitaker-Betances' 13th hearing, a murder trial date was finally set for Oct. 20--which has been continued, natch, this time for five months in response to a defense motion to have Whitaker's DNA re-examined. www.peytonwolcott.com/Whitaker-BetancesPUSD.html |
| July 4 - Announced 17 "Modern Minutemen." www.peytonwolcott.com/Minutemen.html Aug. 3 - Detained by three armed Edgewood ISD police officers for taking photos of "Recognized" claims on the district's front door and main lobby; Texas edu-missioner Shirley Neeley had just announced EISD's fall to "Academically Unacceptable," the lowest possible rating for districts. I was investigating Edgewood because no one else would; they were the name litigant in a series of MALDEF-funded disputes over "equity" in public school finance, paving the way for a road towards socialism and away from local funds for local schools. www.peytonwolcott.com/Edgewood.html www.peytonwolcott.com/EdgewoodBudget.html www.peytonwolcott.com/EdgewoodISD.html www.peytonwolcott.com/EdgewoodTranscript.html |
| Sept. 21 - Using San Antonio-area public school districts as an example, pointed out that Texas schools are consistently under-reporting the amount of money they're taking in; while Edgewood ISD states its general fund amount of $85.7 million as its "budget," in actual fact EISD supe Richard Bocanegra gets to touch, control, allocate and spent more than $190 million. The San Antonio Express-News was not able to offer a satisfactory reason for either the discrepancy or their under-reporting. |
| Edgewood PR guy Mario Rios (L), EISD police officers during detainment incident; TEA "Recognized" sign |
| Sept. 21 - California's Glenn County Office of Education supe Joni Samples, author of "Taking the Guesswork Out of School Success," studied Spanish in Puerto Vallarta, where she posted her innermost thoughts on a taxpayer-funded laptop, used GCOE's email service to send a copy back to herself. Via a series of public records requests, Sacramento Valley Mirror publisher Tim Crews printed not only Samples' PV musings but also connected taxpayer-funded trips out of state to sales calls to sell her books and trainings--along with the $244,000 Joni and staff racked up in credit card bills last year. www.peytonwolcott.com/GlennCountyOE.html |
| (From left) GCOE supe Joni Samples; Canto Del Sol Hotel in Puerto Vallarta; publisher Tim Crews |
| Oct. 1 - Launched The National School District Honor Roll of school districts posting their check registers online; originally had two names then four now eleven, all in Texas. Special thanks to Spring Branch ISD board vice president Mike Falick for following up on my suggestion that he bring the idea of online check registers to his board and SBISD superintendent Duncan Klussman, and kudoes to Duncan for beating his own deadline of publishing by Thanksgiving. Oct. 16 - Remember Robert Canchola in Nogales, Arizona? He finally went to jail and voters elected a new superintendent--but should they have picked Alfred Velasquez? Published a list of five questions Nogales-area voters might have wanted to ask--and get answers to--before Velasquez took office on January 1, 2007. After this report was published, Velasquez' date was rushed up a month--amid questions regarding his September election. www.peytonwolcott.com/arizona.html Oct. 19 - First national radio (The Lynn Woolley Show) round table discussion re school districts' posting their check registers online, archived here: www.belogical.com/audio.htm Oct. 20 - Had then-supe Percy Clark followed his own rules and done a background check, he would not have hand-picked a registered sex offender to run the PUSD "DADS" program; further Whitaker was on the lam from Oregon for murdering a woman; after his arrest and detention in Orange County, Whitaker was connected via DNA to a second murder. www.peytonwolcott.com/Whitaker-BetancesPUSD.html |
| Nov. 10 - Do fashion'n'fun trump the First Amendment at Lake Travis ISD, near Austin? Elementary principal Heidi Gudelman (right) is still working at the district after leaving her Vegas vacation pix, including one at the slots, open beer bottles besider her, on a district-owned laptop which was later assigned to a young male student, ironically the son of a mom and dad being sued in a SLAPP suit case by the district for filing too many public records requests. Also, LTISD violated its own rules in allowing girls (far right) to wear scanty suggestive costumes throughout the day as part of "Senior Initiation"; published the only known photos of these costumes along with report. www.peytonwolcott.com/LTISD.html |
| Nov. 21 - Are Texas schools becoming SLAPP-happy? (SLAPP = Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation.) www.peytonwolcott.com/SLAPP_Part_I.html |
| Dec. 8 - Published report detailing 24--count 'em, 24--state, federal and local governmental entities who dropped the ball in the Bremond ISD superintendent investigation, including the US DOE and the FBI. That two moms persisted despite this much apathy and opposition is rare; their tale also here. www.peytonwolcott.com/BremondPublicRecords.html Dec. 11 - Named to "Upton Sinclair Awards" list for 2006. www.ednews.org/articles/5387/1/Upton-Sinclair-Awards-2006 /Page1.html Dec. 13 - An examination of Education, Inc.'s vast hidden tentacles in our public schools, including how four moms defeated anti-sunshine legislation last year armed only with the truth and a stack of flyers; published the only image available of the "smoking gun." www.peytonwolcott.com/HB2264.html Dec. 17 - A look at the practice of "Pass the Trash" (see photos at right), some ideas as to how to end it. www.peytonwolcott.com/PassTheTrash.html |
| Newspaper account of John Whitaker-Betances arrest and double life; lower left, masquerading as Viet Nam veteran; right, Pasadena USD supe Percy Clark riding in parade |
| HOT OFF THE PRESS--NEWEST REPORT |
| MFISD superintendent Ryder Warren (far right) discussing posting the district's check register online at Monday night's board meeting |
| Lake Travis ISD elementary principal Heidi Gudelman (left); Lake Travis High School students |
| People often ask how I decide what to report and what to pass on. My guidelines come from a rabbinical* quote, expanded to, "If not now, when? If not here, where? If not me, who?" |
| Top: supe Hector Montengro's "Miracle of Ysleta ISD,"Richard Bocanegra, Bocanegra's day care, Frank Tassone, Pamela Gluckin |
| Excerpt from Joni Samples email to herself from Puero Vallarta on GCOE laptop using GCOE email: I am sitting in this gorgeous location in Puerto Vallarta [Canto Del Sol]. I don’t want to go to the pool. I’m not into pools. I like looking at the beach, but I’m not into sitting on the beach with all the sand. |
| Robert Canchola with staff |
| April-May - Successfully worked together with local group and newspaper to defeat Katy ISD's quarter-billion bond issue - their first-ever defeat, including breaking the news that KISD vendor Xpediant ($13 million since 2002) had no legal standing to do business in Texas. Apr. 4-5 - First nationally to compare the situation along the U.S. southern border with Alsace-Lorraine; broke the story about the role of professional adult LULAC organizers behind the so-called "student" immigration protests. Apr. 19 - Published a list of federal funds funneling their way through supe Billy Cannaday, Jr.'s new post as Virginia's supe of public instruction as a possible explanation for his willingness to take a $30,000 cut in pay. |
| David and Mary Helen Berlanga |
| Mike Falick (left); Duncan Klussman |
| Alfredo Velasquez (far left); Nogales USD supe Guillermo Zamudio; at right, Velasquez' campaign ads at locales mentioned in prior police reports |
| * Rabbi Hillel. |
| Nov.-Dec. commentaries here Pass the Trash here SLAPP reports here and here Reader Q&As Check registers here and here |