[LCSD] Sansom

As it turns out, I can help LT out – click here [UPDATE 7/21/09:  Document removed at the request of the LCSD Superintendent until further notice] to get a copy of the letter Tre’ Kennedy sent to Superintendent Lanning regarding the complaint.
The story on the Lebanon Express site from last week garnered close to 70 [...]

Charter Schools

I don’t have much to add to this post from Blue Oregon (h/t KD), except to say: Holy crap!  And Jeff Kropf!
…also, make sure and read all the comments.  It gets pretty intense.  Kudos to Carla Axtman for putting the post together and staying engaged throughout the comment thread.

[LCSD] Compare and Contrast

The G-T ran a story on the Corvallis Superindendent’s yearly evaluation.  If you’re at all familiar with the train-wreck evaluation procedure adopted by the LCSD intermittently over the last half-decade, you should go read the story.  And if you’re on the school board, you should make sure that all of your peer board members fully [...]

Parking and OSU

So, OSU is planning to create some new parking spaces. Problem is, some of the land in question has been parking in the past – free parking, even, I think.  So this isn’t the creation of new parking spaces per se, but the movement of parking spaces from free, open spots to permitted, closed spots.
OSU [...]

Iran

This is hard to beat (but hard to process) for real-time news.  Just keep hitting refresh, or download tweetdeck already.

Why I’m not all that partisan

Digby, in an aptly titled post, lays it out:
The bipartisan elite consensus that governs this country is quite simple. First, deficits and high taxes are always the basic cause of economic stress or the biggest threat facing a recovery, no matter the circumstances. (The corollary is that cutting taxes and spending are the ultimate answer [...]

Health Care

Given that there appears to be some form of health care reform on the horizon, there’s been a tremendous amount of media coverage, both old and new, of health insurance and the health care system in general.  I’ve followed some of the ins and outs, especially as they pertain to a public plan and the [...]

[LCSD] Sansompalooza

Two things.  First, the story in the LE this week about the suspension of two students at Seven Oak and the fact that the parents have filed complaints and retained an attorney.
Rumor has it that there are three additional complaints that have been filed against Sansom that have yet to be resolved.  Sounds like things [...]

Iran

This photo is too good not to link to.
It’s almost always the eyes, isn’t it?

[LCSD] Budget Done….

From the Lebanon Express:
The Lebanon Community School Board Budget Committee approved an amended budget for 2009-10 at its June 4 meeting. The decision followed four weeks of discussion.
This is good.  This I am not so sure of:
The budget as approved contained these changes from the original written by the administration:
• A $213,829 transfer into the [...]

Filed Under ‘Whoa’

Manchester United has sold Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid. For $130 million.
I have nothing orginal to say, but I will note, as others have, that Sir Alex Ferguson’s judgment on when to sell a player has been very, very good in the past.

Mock Congress… or, half of it, anyway

Interesting story in the GT; kudos to the people who participated.
Although it was billed as a “mock” Congress, the issues facing students from Cheldelin Middle School on Tuesday and today are real and hard-hitting — gay rights, abortion, gun ownership, funding education, book censorship, the national energy policy and the possible legalization of marijuana — [...]

LCSD School Climate Survey

I don’t have a lot of time in the foreseeable future, but I’ve read parts of the LHS staff and student responses and have a few points to make. (The results can be found here, by the way.)

1. I found it really interesting that students were “neutral” on so many of the questions (to me, [...]

[LCSD] No Liveblogging Tonight

Two reasons:
1.  The LCSD seems to be calmer than normal these days.  Part of my desire to liveblog was to provide a more detailed account of LCSD board meetings than newspapers can afford to, as well as do some analysis into what was going on.  Now that the processes people are using seem to be [...]