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Weekly Math UpdatesJuly 19, 2007 Contents:
Hi all, I was going to skip the update for this week but then a couple major items have popped up you need to be aware of. Special legislative session on school district splits? There's talk about making property taxes cover school construction either county-wide or state-wide. State-wide makes more sense to me because then you have the ability to put up a school where it's needed no matter where it is. The best thing after putting up a building would then be to send the wpu directly to the school so parents (community council) and administrators at the local level can determine what needs to be done to have an excellent school. Illegal immigration is taking a toll on Utah schools and some lawmakers want the fed to pick up the tab because of their inability to deal with the issue. The end of the article is quite telling.
News to lawmakers...THEY'RE BREAKING THE LAW SO EITHER MAKE THEM LEGAL OR PENALIZE THE BUSINESSES EMPLOYING THEM SO THERE'S A REASON TO EMPLOY LEGAL CITIZENS. A great article up in Seattle on fuzzy math directly comparing Investigations to Singapore math. The only problem is Seattle schools just opted to use Singapore math in conjunction with Everyday Math. At least Seattle has this to look forward to...
Education is in need of more local control A great letter to the editor by a young man that just graduated from 6th grade. :) UHSAA: Lawmakers push for inclusion of charter athletes It's about time. I hope ASD changes it's policies quickly on this to allow charter students to participate in district sports if they desire to. Poster Project Update OK, a few of you have been helping make calls and now the Davy Crockett Society at UVSC is going to help out as well to raise funds and contact other districts. So far we've put posters in ASD, Daggett, Morgan, Millard, and Ogden School Districts. Cache and Jordan have both requested posters, but their needs are in excess of what I have. The good news is, someone contacted me about Rocky Mountain Printing and for about $4,000 I can get 30,000 posters and curriculum pages printed and shipped to all the remaining school districts (about 40). This is a fraction of the cost I had thought it would take and it's due to the size of the run that gets the price down so much. I wish I'd known this the last time we did ASD and bought extra... Regardless, I need your help now to raise some money, but a lot less than I thought I needed. Please speak with co-workers, employers, anyone that can contribute and ask them to go to www.InGodWeTrustPosters.com, scroll to the bottom and click make a donation. You can pay via paypal or credit card. It would be really great if you could get people from around the state to help donate as well, or if you didn't the first time around, please do so now. Till next week, Oak Norton |
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