Success Academy helps the toughest kids from Sacramento city schools

January 29th, 2011

These are the kids no one else wants to teach.

They’ve used drugs, carried weapons or otherwise wreaked havoc at schools in the Sacramento City Unified School District.

As a last resort, they are sent to Success Academy, an alternative education program recently relocated next to the district offices on 47th Avenue in south Sacramento.

Teaching at Success Academy has proved to be tough and sometimes dangerous work despite the clientele of fourth- through eighth-graders.

While the students are small, pound for pound, Success Academy is the most dangerous school in the city. Police have logged roughly 270 crimes at the school’s three locations since 2005. These include 86 assaults; 17 drug offenses; 15 weapons charges; 10 reports of gang activity; three instances of witness intimidation; even a report of pimping.

Students at the tiny school assaulted staff members 31 times during the last six years, police records show.

Those may be the facts, but they don’t get at the truth of the school, said Principal Kathy Whiteside.

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Grants for single mothers help working mothers return to the university

January 28th, 2011

Although the government works hard to help working mothers return to the university many people still doubt about what the federal

  1. grants for single mother

are really about. This article will help you know more about existing government benefits that you can be eligible for. For moms who want to return to college grants are the first stage of advancement.

Federal grants are the most popular type of financial assistance given to the college students and now there is a special program designed to support single mothers. Unlike a loan, getting a grant you don’t need to repay it, what makes this option very attractive to single mothers seeking help. Federal grants are generally awarded to members of the minority groups who have not already obtained a bachelor’s or professional degree. With such advantages it is not surprising that the scholarship program for moms is given much attention to unwed, working mothers. The president is encouraging mothers to attend college through the available grants.

If you are looking for a way to pay for expensive medical training, there may be many options available to you. Read more…

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Akron fifth-graders waltz to top of competition

January 27th, 2011

The fifth-grade ballroom dance team from Akron’s Crouse elementary advanced Saturday to the Grand Finals competition in May at the Ohio Theatre at PlayhouseSquare.

Crouse and Leggett elementary schools both sent teams of a dozen students each to the Cleveland competition, which was sponsored by Dancing Classrooms Northeast Ohio.

The nonprofit organization teaches social development to fifth- and eighth-graders through ballroom dance.

Crouse and the team from Elm Street Elementary School in Painesville were selected from five teams that competed in the semifinal match to advance to the Grand Finals on May 14.

At least 20 schools in Summit, Cuyahoga and Lake counties are expected to participate this school year.

Akron is the only district in Summit County to host the program so far.

This winter, eighth-graders at the Akron Opportunity Center and fifth-graders at Seiberling and McEbright elementary schools are in the program.

Fifth-graders at Schumacher and Rimer elementary schools will participate this spring.

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Barrington Athletic Hall of Fame announces 2011 induction class

January 27th, 2011

Barrington High School and the Barrington Booster Club has announced that eight athletes, one team, one coach and two contributors will be inducted into the Barrington High School Athletic Hall of Fame at the third annual induction ceremony,
April 2 at the Rhode Island Country Club, 150 Nayatt Road, in Barrington.

The twelve inductees are: Kurt Colella ’77, Monica Gilman ’93, Anthony”Tony” Iasa ’57, John “Jay” Pattee ’39, Bill Reynolds ’63, Kevin Ryan ’83, JoAnn Stout (Niziolek) ’78, David Thurber ’72, the 1969-1970 BHS Girls Basketball Team, Coach Don McGregor and contributors, James “Jim” Anderson ’83 and Eleanor Lamaire.

Tickets at $50 apiece are now on sale for the dinner, which begins with a 5 p.m. reception, followed by dinner at 6. Order forms are available at the Barrington High School office or can be downloaded from the BHS Athletics website at www.barringtonhigh.org). Order forms with a check made payable to the “Barrington Booster Club” should be sent to: Barrington Booster Club, Attn: Hall of Fame, P.O. Box 232, Barrington, RI 02806.

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College Lip Dub Video Phenomenon: Happening at a College Near You

January 13th, 2011

College lip dub videos are everywhere! Whether it’s set to popular songs or, as in the case with Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a musical selection redone by a popular TV show like Glee, students are participating and having fun you know, the whole college experience!

Even International colleges and universities are getting in on the act! Check out Footloose from the Warsaw School of Economics, the University of Montevideo in Uruguay that features both students and professors, University of Vic Hey Soul Sister lip dub that also combines faculty and staff – this time 900 members of campus! Really, does anything beat watching the lip syncing of a college professor?

Schools like Pompeu Fabra University in Spain and Australian Catholic University in Australia have released lipdub videos. Australia Catholic University students teamed up in order to show off several different ACU campuses and loads of actual students (talk about a fun way to get a look at college campus!).

Want to see more? Check out the Lehigh University Lip Dub of 2010 on YouTube or below. Hav

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Students’ rights weighed as colleges try to assess threats

January 12th, 2011

Since April 2007, news reports show that at least 67 people have been killed and 69 others injured in attacks by U.S. college students.

Threat assessment teams, also given softer names such as “behavioral intervention” or “student of concern” committees, spread quickly after the Virginia Tech tragedy, where various officials each noticed red flags but didn’t connect the dots in time to stop Seung Hui Cho from going on a rampage.

Nobody tracked threat assessment teams before 2007, but experts such as Brett Sokolow, past president of the National Behavior Intervention Team Association, say about 20 colleges had them before Virginia Tech. The association estimates about 1,600 campuses have them today.

United Educators, which insures 1,160 schools and colleges, recommends such teams as a way to identify students who may pose a risk on campus, gather information to assess the situation, and determine whether there is need for an intervention. That could involve, for example, an evaluation for disability services, a referral for medical treatment, a call to parents or suspension.

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