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Skip to comments.Katrina victims testify on racism's role
Posted on 12/06/2005 3:25:07 PM PST by quantim
WASHINGTON (AP) Black survivors of Hurricane Katrina said Tuesday that racism contributed to the slow disaster response, at times likening themselves in emotional congressional testimony to victims of genocide and the Holocaust.
The comparison is inappropriate, according to Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla.
"Not a single person was marched into a gas chamber and killed," Miller told the survivors.
"They died from abject neglect," retorted community activist Leah Hodges. "We left body bags behind."
Angry evacuees described being trapped in temporary shelters where one New Orleans resident said she was "one sunrise from being consumed by maggots and flies." Another woman said military troops focused machine gun laser targets on her granddaughter's forehead. Others said their families were called racial epithets by police.
"No one is going to tell me it wasn't a race issue," said New Orleans evacuee Patricia Thompson, 53, who is now living in College Station, Texas. "Yes, it was an issue of race. Because of one thing: when the city had pretty much been evacuated, the people that were left there mostly was black."
Not all lawmakers seemed persuaded.
"I don't want to be offensive when you've gone though such incredible challenges," said Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn. But referring to some of the victims' charges, like the gun pointed at the girl, Shays said: "I just don't frankly believe it."
"You believe what you want," Thompson said.
The hearing was held by a special House committee, chaired by Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., investigating the government's preparations and response to Katrina. It was requested by Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
"Racism is something we don't like to talk about, but we have to acknowledge it," McKinney said. "And the world saw the effects of American-style racism in the drama as it was outplayed by the Katrina survivors."
The five white and two black lawmakers who attended the hearing mostly sat quietly during two and a half hours of testimony. But tempers flared when evacuees were asked by Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., to not compare shelter conditions to a concentration camp.
"I'm going to call it what it is," said Hodges. "That is the only thing I could compare what we went through to."
Of five black evacuees who testified, only one said he believed the sluggish response was the product of bad government planning for poor residents not racism.
Houses severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina are seen in the New Orleans East
neighborhood in New Orleans, Monday, Dec. 5, 2005. The proposal by the
Urban Land Institute to rebuilding New Orleans, smacks of racism to certain local leaders.
The proposal focuses available resources on the least damaged neighborhoods first,
while carefully studying whether it makes sense to repopulate areas that flooded worst.
(AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki) MLive.com
What the hell happened to self-reliance in this country?
Thank Mr. Nagin and Ms. Blank-o, you jerks.
All I remember is all the cars in the ninth ward that were underwater--and wondered why the hell those people didn't get their fat butts in those cars and get out of town.
Maybe this will be the final straw that will break the back of the 'race' card.
REDICULOUS it is!
AND where was the Governor and Mayor of N.O.? I thought every state had a plan....no????? How foolish of me to think that....
Where was Kerry, Kennedy, clinton, boxer, and the rest of the koolaid crowd????? How about the Hollywood crowd....little babs, alex baby, oh yeah thats right, someone brought a boat down and ruined his motor...how foolish of me to forget that....
Oh yes, NOW I remember, IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT!!!! How foolish to think that people can manage on their own and survive, nope they have to have the PRESIDENT there to hold their hand...how foolish of me to forget!
Bone head! You had the better part of a weeks warning to get out. You could have easily taken a bus out of town before the storm hit. Thats the problem with expecting cradle to grave government handouts to solve your every problem. GET OVER IT! IT WAS YOUR OWN STUPID FAULT FOR NOT LEAVING!
White people mostly evacuated themselves [by autokinesis] ... many black people waited to be "rescued" by someone else.
New Orleans was almost 70% black ... isn't it natural that a predominantly black city would have predominantly black people left over at most "events"?
Let's move on to something worthwhile ... like rebuilding lives and rebuilding the city. Hurricane Katrina is over.
I have been to Dachau, I find this comparison absolutely appalling. Did any "armed guards" tell them "Arbeit macht Frei? I didn't read of anyone committing suicide because there was no hope of rescue, I didn't see any ovens at the superdome or convention center for throwing people in, or showers hooked up to exhaust systems to gas people. I am sick of hearing about racism after being hit by a category 5 hurricane, after they were ordered to a mandatory evacuation.
These whackjobs hit every leftwing point imaginable. Halliburton, racism, concentration camps, shooting people when they left their homes, blowing up the levees, ethnic cleansing and no telling what else during the hearings.
The welfare scum Of New Orleans were taught from cradle to grave by Democrats not to help themselves.
Katrina 'victim's are their own worse enemy.
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I agree. The reference to the laser on the grandaughter's forehead.........sounds like she was 4 and in pigtails. Bet she was in her 20's and an a..hole.
Yes it was a all time low.
If the prospect of freedom couldn't make these people start walking north over 150 years ago, why would a category 5 hurricane?
Even fish know to walk out of a muddy puddle when their fins are stiff enough!
investigating ...requested by Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Okay. Read enough right there. She's the real racist pig in this pen.
someone brought a boat down and ruined his motor...how foolish of me to forget that....
This guy Penn?
Cynthia McKenny called for this -- so no shock the outcome, bet she hand-picked the people who testified.
It wouldn't hurt if she would learn the meaning of the word "outplay" (as in "the Chargers outplayed the Raiders").
I more easily believe that the story is totally made up. Our armed forces are trained better than that. Besides, to point the laser they would have to be aiming their rifle. Which, I think, would be a much better story. ie the photo of Elian Gonzalez being taken from the home.
I feel so sorry for the children that were stuck in NO because their stupid caretakers didn't get off their arses and leave. I went through the missing children photos almost daily, and most of the children missing got "separated from their caretakers" in their description of circumstances. That also made me wonder if the caretakers somehow saved themselves and not the children they were responsible for. I also wondered where the parents were.
As in, the Seahawks outplayed the living sh!t out of the Eagles . . .
I thought Frank Zappa was dead. Why is he bailing out a pirogue with a go-cup?
These people are beyond pathetic. Figures that dipstick RINO Christopher Shays would be at this hearing.
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I wonder what will happen when all these dopes are sitting in their beautiful habitat homes and another hurricane comes and they are ordered to evacuate. I am betting they will once again go to the convention center and superdome, IF they leave their houses. Do I have any takers? No? I'm shocked!
These people don't believe that crap it's all democrat racist posturing. Who got their sorry asses out of there and how soon? It sure wasn't the black mayor, etc.
How many tens of thousands of cars, trucks and SUVs have the auto insurance industry estimated were destroyed,sitting in car ports and garages in the Ninth Ward and elsewhere? Every photo of the scenes of devastation shows vehicles that should have been GONE. If these apathetic people had driven them out of NO, they wouldn't have had to go to the Dome or the overpasses. But this group will always find someone other than themselves to blame for their lazy, ignorant choices.
This moon bat actually said this? McKinney talks about racism like crack heads talk about crack
To be fair, it was reported that there were instances of Rescue workers demanding that all babies and little ones be passed overhead to be the first on rescue vehicles.
I wondered at the time how any breathing, thinking, parent would allow a child out of their grasp like that.
I suspect that there was mass hysteria and I suspect that many of those hysterical folks were on the lower end of the educational scale. That is a recipe for disaster.
None of this makes the situation any less sad.
That also made me wonder if the caretakers somehow saved themselves and not the children they were responsible for.
It would appear that many tried to save neither themselves nor the children in their care. Unfathomable.
It's the only arrow in her quiver.
I saw Nagin on TV saying 'git your ass out of town.' He didn't say, 'white people git your ass out of town.' I think we have an IQ issue here, not race.
Like him or not he is about the only one up there to call those idiots on what they were saying. I'm no Shays fan but on this one he was right on.
"Why couldn't these people at least take what they could carry and leave as quickly as possible?"
Because they do not act until being told what to do by their government masters, to be blunt. It is really hard to blame some of them, because self reliance has not been required of them for such a long time.When I refer to "some of them" I'm speaking exclusively of the people left behind in New Orleans. I know I stand to be accused of racism for statements like that, but that is not the case. It is really hard to be honest when it comes to race issues.
FNC just played a clip from the hearing, scary. In a way it is hard to blame these 'victims' since it was government that created this mentality in the first place. They (we) get the government they deserve.
Liberals and dems seem to do rather well in making messes that get people killed.
[[Leah Hodges, a community activist, recalled trying to help a group of stranded senior citizens. The military took them to an evacuation point on a highway where they spent the night, awakening to a "bunch of hard red necks scowling and growling at us in military uniforms.]]
I'm sure that NOBODY had the balls to call this creep on using a racial slur against whites during this hearing. Blacks are not held accountable for much in this country.
I'm sick of these whiners. Maybe if they spent all the hours a day they whine about "racism" doing something productive they wouldn't be stuck in the situation they have found themselves in.
This though is the predictable result of decades of liberal policy. It creates adult children who look to the government for everything, and who rather than work to improve their situation would rather sit around and blame others for not giving them more and more handouts. Nothing is their fault. Drop out of school? Blame whitey! Have a kid at 18? Blame whitey? Don't have a good job! Blame whitey! Not enough blacks volunteer for the red cross? Blame whitey!
Another great story from the Ass(ociated) Press.
While I agree there was an appalling lack of personal responsibility by some prior to Katrina hitting New Orleans, I'm curious as to just what town, 12 miles away, you are referring. Food and shelter could have been found possibly 120 miles away, but most certainly NOT 12 miles.
It wasn't a race issue.
Here we go again. Wanna bet if this had happened during the Clinton administration there would be no cry of racism? Don't you just wanna puke?
How dare you say that about McKinney - with all she and her family have done to curb anti-semitism in this country.
When even Christopher Shays turns down a chance to stab the GOP in the back by agreeing with their wild accusations, it should tell these people something.
"If the shelters were anything like the concentration camps these idiots would be dead."
Concentration vitims were "worked" to death, they weren't 300+lb. folks that sat on their duffs waiting to be fed. There is no comparison here at all.
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One stat: 17
That's how many interceptions he has to lead the league. BUT OMFG GUISE HE HAS A CANNON IN PLACE OF HIS ARM!
Sorry, not worth the two number 1's and Kyle Orton. He's got a gunslinger mentality without the decision making ability to be a successful quarterback. He's going to be crippled by his bad decisions until he decides to stop single-handedly losing games for his team.


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A remote area in Highlands County is touted as one of the world's great ecological field stations.
Founded in 1941, Archbold Biological Station, near Venus, is dedicated to long-term ecological research and conservation.
Staff biologists, visiting scientists, interns and volunteers work continually on studies and projects at Archbold and its divisions the MacArthur Agro-ecology Research Center and Archbold Reserve.
During a recent visit to Archbold, three scientists discussed the projects they were working on and in turn answered the questions we had about Archbold.
What is significant or unique about this area of Florida and what in particular is being studied? Have there been any recent breakthroughs or upcoming advances in the study of plants and wildlife?
Entomology (study of insects) Program Director Mark Deyrup said he has been at Archbold for more than 30 years, "And, I still find things I've never seen before."
The new discoveries are not always during planned explorations of the 5,193-acres at Archbold, but can happen right outside the expansive main building that houses laboratories, offices and support services.
Deyrup said, "Sometimes when I am walking down the walkway on the way to the bathroom some beetle will plunk into the wall there and I'll look at it and say, 'I've never seen that beetle before.'"
The diversity is quite high and its one of the few places where anybody has tried to catalog it, he said.
For example, more than 1,000 species of butterflies and moths live on the station, Deyrup said. There are not very many other places in North America where anybody actually has a list of the names of the butterflies and months that live in that place
There is a small amount of difference in elevation from a low habitat with grasses and lowland vegetation to scrubland, he noted.
"It only takes a few feet and that's hard to explain to people particularly from the north where elevation is much more extreme than in Florida," Deyrup said. "They can't imagine that going up three feet can change the vegetation."
Walking on one of the station's visitor's trails the untrained eye sees natural landscape that appears to be a random area of plants and bushes, but Deyrup sees a complex ecosystem at work.
"We are already in a zone where things have to be able to adapt to drought," he noted. "All these things that look like azaleas are really oak trees."
On the ground appears to be small areas of moss about 2 inches in diameter.
That's a type of lichen that's often called "dear moss," Deyrup said. Like other lichens it doesn't pull anything from the ground; it just sits there and it's composed of an algae, which is green, and fungus, which makes the structure. They work together making these kinds of mutual communities.
Right here you can see three different kinds of lichens, he pointed out.
So we have a series of these ground lichens that like open places here in the scrub. There are many other kinds of lichens, he said. If you look at any tree or shrub you will see banding on the branches caused by lichens.
Pointing out some of the oaks in the scrub, Deyrup noted, there are hundreds of species, animals and all the lichens and so on, that are associated with oak trees.
"If you want to have a single plant that provides room for a lot of wildlife you should plant an oak tree," he said.
Currently Deyrup is doing a lot of work on ants.
"They are important ecological organisms," he said. "They are the major predators in this system. Ants are running a lot of things here."
Pointing to an area of sand with small burrow holes, Deyrup said, this is where an ant called "solenopsis pagandei" emerged last night. So the queens came out here.
This is a species that spends all its time underground and they are probably one of the reasons why the regular fire ant can't survive in the scrub because there are so many things underground moving around catching them and the queens burrowing in.
Above ground at Archbold, and in areas of Highlands County, Avian Ecology Program Director Reed Bowman focuses on birds and the threatened scrub jay in particular.
Bowman said his career at Archbold has focused on endangered birds by studying population biology and behavior and how they interact.
"We are really interested in all the factors that are influencing their endangerment," he said. "What is causing these populations of birds to decline and what are the mechanisms through which that happens. Is it affecting their birth rates or their survival rates or altering their behavior and causing shifts in their distribution and things like that."
Despite all the conservation that has been done for the scrub jays, their numbers continue to decline, he said.
The natural conditions cause fluctuations, for example, every year the scrub jay population produces young that survive until about July. In 2011 that number was 129, but in 2012 they only had 12 juveniles that survived until July.
"Before we can understand how humans are affecting these ups and downs, we have to understand how the environment naturally affects those ups and downs," he said.
This particular scrub jay study dates back to 1969.
"I've been here since 1991 so not only are the studies long-term, but the people are long-term, too," Bowman said with a laugh.
Have technological advances helped your studies?
It's only been within the last 10 years that the human genome project has sequenced the entire gnome of humans, Bowman said.
"We are now months away from having completed that for the Florida scrub jay," he said. "That will allow us to not only identify how these families [of scrub jays] have differed in terms of their relative success over the years, but are there certain genes that are associated with successful lineages or unsuccessful lineages."
The genome (DNA) research is being done by Cornell University.
Plant Ecology Program Director Eric Menges studies the ecology of Florida's scrub plants and their conservation and management. He's been at Archbold since 1988.
"We do a lot of work trying to figure out whether populations of rare plants are declining or not and if so why?" he said. "Does it have to do with herbivore [animal or organisms that consumes plant material] or drought or fire?
At Archbold, they do a lot of work with fire, which is the natural ecological disturbance in Florida, but also land managers can apply fire, Menges explained. It turns out that some plants are very sensitive to fire and some don't care how often they are burned.
They work on plants that are only found in Highlands or only in Highlands and Polk counties because there are many rare plants on the Lake Wales Ridge, he said.
"We are really excited about some introductions we've done - propagating plants and then putting them out in the field to try to create new populations or increase population sizes," he said. This is done in protected areas owned by the state or federal government or in nature conservancies.
For example they have worked with a very rare plant called the Avon Park harebells, which has been found in only three sites: two in Highlands County and one in Polk County in an area of development, Menges said.
It is a little plant in the bean family, a legume, he said. It's about two or three inches tall with yellow flowers, which produces pods with very hard, shiny, black seeds.
"We took material, cuttings and seeds, from the area of development and worked with Bok Tower Gardens to propagate them and introduce them into a nearby protected site called Silver Lake in northern Highlands County," Menges said. "Those plants are doing really well."
Also, with the same plant, they are cooperating with the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden in studies using tissue culture technology to grow plants, he said.
The cuttings from tissue cultures plants are the ones that did the best in this introduction, he said, which was exciting because its usually a difficult horticultural thing to do in Florida, but with this particular experiment things went a lot better.
A sticker on the outside window of an Archbold lab sums up the biologist's endless quest to understand the world them, "So many species, so little time."
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- Most bookedThe Cove Eleuthera
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"This place is a beautiful sanctuary where you can wind down & relax. We rented a car so we could drive to Harbor Town & Governor's Harbor, The Cove situated between the two. Loved the outings, but lovrd coming "home" to heaven on earth at The Cove!"
A Traveller, Jun 2016, US
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"This is a great little place. It's close to everything because the island is so small. 5 minute walk to the 3 mile pink sand beach, 10 minute walk down to the marina and little shops. Everyone wants you to rent golf carts, but truly, if you are not lazy and overweight, you don't really need it. T..."
A Traveller, Jul 2016, US
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"Nice hotel Maybe a few more Bahamian dishes in the restaurant ."
A Traveller, Aug 2015, US
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"Hotel was wonderful! It was right on the beach. The room was clean and neat. The food was very good. The staff was wonderful! I will be back next year!"
B, Apr 2016, US
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"I scheduled about 3 weeks at the Unique and really did not want to leave the hotel or Eleuthera. I spent quite a bit of time there using the pool, walking the beach,and eating some meals at the restaurant. Also I was able to explore Eleuthera by renting a car for 9 days. There is much to see on t..."
N, May 2016, US
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"Flew some clients in for one night. On the ferry boat ride over to the resort I met the general manager Joe. He found out we were staying at his resort and went above and beyond to make my co pilot and I trip smooth. He called ahead and had staff greet us with golf carts and take our bags to our ..."
A Traveller, Nov 2015, US
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"I stayed here late November, and the construction / renovations are still on going and seem likely to continue for months. The lobby is closed, and no rooms are remodeled yet. Our room was not remodeled. I loved the location on the beach, and the privacy, but I was woken up at 7;30 am with hammer..."
A Traveller, Nov 2015, US
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"What a find! Rock House is a little gem on Harbour Island. Don, the owner/manager is truly "hands-on," and it shows. The staff considers itself a 'family,' and they take great pride in this lovely property. We stayed in what was arguably, the worst room in the inn (The Monkey Room), but it was lo..."
A Traveller, Jan 2016, US
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"We stayed at the Hut Pointe Inn for one night whilst visiting Governors Harbour. It was located very close to the Sky Beach Club which was our location for dinner and given that everything is very spaced out on Eleuthera and we didn't have access to a hire car, it was perfect. It would be ideal ..."
A Traveller, Apr 2014, GB
Map of Eleuthera and Harbour Island hotels
- Pink Sand Beach
- Harbour Island Ministry of Health Clinic
- Surfers Beach
- Poponi Beach
- Hut Point Beach
- Preacher's Cave
- Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve
- Haynes Public Library
- Stewart Mansion (Haunted House)
- Ten Bay Beach
- Dr. Albert Johnson Memorial
- Current Bay Beach
- Rainbow Bay Beach
- Ben Bay Beach
- Hatchet Bay Cave
- OceanView Farm
- Gaulding Cay Beach
- Lone Tree
- Glass Window Bridge
- Ocean Hole
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I *think* I know the overall best way to go about upgrading everything, but I'd love some input. My method seems a bit clunky, and perhaps there is a more elegant solution. I'm also confused about URL options; more on that towards the bottom of this post.
My whole site is powered by WordPress, but I would like to begin using Posts and Pages to delineate content differently (Right now everything is just Posts). The new version of my site will be set up as:
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Now since I'd like the illusion of having "a website that also has a blog", I will need a link to "Blog" in my navigation. At the bottom of the home page, below the Post Excerpts, I would also need to link to "see more blog posts" which would then take the user to "the blog". With SEO in mind, as well as inbound links to "the blog" rather than my whole website, I'd like this link to be as clean and intuitive as possible. domain.com/blog/would be ideal. It appears as though there is a URL already available that acts as the first page of blog posts: domain.com/page/1/ (yes, I have WP installed in root) but that isn't intuitive and is also a "folder" too long. Is there anyway to convert domain.com/page/1/ to domain.com/blog/? What file handles the naming of that URL? Also note that I don't have, nor would I ever want to create a category called "blog" so that wouldn't interfere with the creation of this URL.
If this URL can not be changed, ideas about a better way to accomplish my goals would be much appreciated. WordPress is so flexible and it's great to hear how others have found unique ways of bending it to their will :)
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015
ED Plans Pell Grant Pilot Program for Prisoners
Inside Higher Ed reports that ED Secretary Arne Duncan is expected to announce an experimental sites program this week for prisoners to receive Pell Grants to take college courses. The Prisoner Reentry (Moving Forward) program will grant a limited waiver to a provision in the 1994 Omnibus Crime Bill, in which Congress prohibited prisoners in state and federal prisons from receiving Pell Grants. The administration's program will allow prisoners at 6-7 sites who are within three years of release to participate in a credit-bearing program "that leads to an industry-recognized credential with labor market value," according to the administration's program summary. Secretary Duncan and Attorney General Loretta Lynch are expected to make the announcement at Goucher College's prison education program at the Maryland Correctional Institution on Friday.
July 29, 2015 in News | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Settlement Reached For Student Expelled After Protesting College's Parking Deck Plans
A settlement has been reached in Barnes v. Zaccari, the long-running case in which a Valdosta State University (Ga.) student was expelled in 2007 after he protested the VSU president's plans to build a new parking deck. After a letter-writing campaign opposing the environmental impact of VSU's parking deck plans, student Thomas Barnes posted a collage on his Facebook page titled "S.A.V.E.—Zaccari Memorial Parking Garage" that included a portrait of then-VSU President Ronald Zaccari. (A copy of the collage can be found here.) Zaccari interpreted the word "memorial" to apply to deceased persons, therefore signaling that Barnes contemplated harm to him. He ordered that Barnes be "administratively withdrawn" from VSU because Barnes presented a "clear and present danger" to the campus. Barnes sued Zaccari in federal court, claiming violations of his due process and free speech rights. The district court denied Zaccari's summary judgment motion based on qualified immunity. A federal district court denied Barnes' First Amendment retaliation claim, finding that because it was pled as a conspiracy claim and VSU's administrators opposed Zaccari's actions, there was no agreement to form a conspiracy. In 2013, a federal jury found the collage was innocuous expression, finding Zaccari personally liable for $50,000 for violating Barnes's rights. In January 2015, the Eleventh Circuit held that the district court erred in granting summary judgment in Zaccari's favor on the First Amendment retaliation claim. Barnes v. Zaccari, 592 Fed.Appx. 859 (11th Cir. 2015). VSU apparently has decided that it is done fighting the case. Read more about the settlement at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education here.
July 28, 2015 in Cases, First Amendment, News | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Legal News on IDEA, School Prayer, and Taxpayer Funding for School Board's Political Activities
Second Circuit Holds That School District Must Provide Full Value of Compensatory Services Under IDEA, Not Just Lesser Value of What Parents Could Afford
In Doe v. E. Lyme Bd. of Educ., No. 14-1261-CV, 2015 WL 3916265 (2d Cir. June 26, 2015), a Connecticut school board and a student's parents disagreed over the proper placement and special education services. The parents placed their child in private school while pursuing remedies under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. During the administrative proceedings and subsequent litigation, the school board refused to pay for the student's special education services, which were not available at her private school. The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's finding that the school board's action denied the student a free and appropriate education and affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment awarding no relief as to the FAPE claim because private school was an inappropriate placement because it did not offer special education services. The Second Circuit held that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act's requirement for a school district to maintain a stay-put placement is triggered when an administrative due process proceeding is initiated, not when an impasse is reached, The circuit court also held that when a school district commits a stay-put violation, it must reimburse or provide compensatory education for the full value of services that the district was required to fund, not the (lesser) value of services that the student's parent was able to afford.
Alabama State Auditor's Suit Dismissed Against School Board That Spent Public Funds Rallying for Property Tax Referendum
An Alabama judge has reportedly dismissed a lawsuit brought by the state auditor who challenged the Baldwin Co., Ala. school board's spending public funds on a campaign to rally for increased property taxes to fund school construction. State Auditor Jim Zeigler sued in May seeking a ruling on whether school boards could use taxpayer money to fund political activities. Zeigler also sought $250,000 in restitution for the funds that the Baldwin County School System spent on a failed referendum for the property tax increase. According to al.com, state circuit court judge Greg Griffin said that "if political activity included all issue advocacy" then public officials couldn't push in favor of things such as crime bills, changes to state voting laws or tax increases or decreases. The news report is here.
Advocacy Group Reaches Settlement With Georgia District Over School Prayer
A settlement has reportedly been reached settling the lawsuit brought against the to stop coaches from leading Christian prayers before sports and other school-sponsored activities. The American Humanist Association sued in the Northern District of Georgia alleging that the Hall County (Georgia) school district allowed its faculty and coaches to pray with students and insert Biblical passages in sports promotional materials. In last week's settlement with the school district, Hall County Schools will reinforce "the standards for religious neutrality" required under the First Amendment and hold a constitutional rights training session for administrators. Read more here.
July 21, 2015 in News | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
ProPublica on What Fisher Is Really About
Nikole Hannah-Jones at ProPublica published her take on the cert grant in Fisher v. Univ. of Texas at Austin recently in A Colorblind Constitution: What Abigail Fisher's Affirmative Action Case Is Really About, reminding us of a few facts that ought to influence the Supreme Court's next Fisher decision:
1) because UT Austin's policy of admitting the top ten percent of Texas' high school graduates claimed 92% of in-state freshman seats, Fisher faced stiff competition for admission with all other in-state applicants for the remaining eight percent;
2) while some students with lower test scores and grades than Fisher were provisionally admitted, only five of those students were black or Latino; 42 were white;
3) Fisher's lawyers concede, as they must, that Fisher's race was likely not a significant factor in UT denying her admission.
Instead, Hannah-Jones writes, what Fisher's lawyers want is a referendum on whether the equal protection clause "also prohibits the use of race to help them overcome the nation's legacy of racism." Read more at ProPublica here.
July 8, 2015 in News | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, June 29, 2015
Supreme Court Will Revisit Diversity Admissions Policies in Fisher v. UT Austin
The Supreme Court granted certiorari today in Fisher v. Univ. of Texas to revisit race-conscious admissions policies at the University of Texas at Austin. The Supreme Court remanded the Fisher case in 2013 for the Fifth Circuit to conduct a "searching examination" of whether UT's policies were narrowly tailored to serve a compelling government interest. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that in addition to the Fifth Circuit's upholding UT's policy, the justices may also consider new evidence that then-UT Austin President William C. Powers Jr. intervened on behalf of well-connected applicants (the elephant in the room for racial diversity policies in college admissions). The Chronicle of Higher Education's story is here.
June 29, 2015 in Cases, News | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Texas Repeals Controversial Truancy Law
Last weekend, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation ending Texas' criminal penalties for the "failure to attend school" law. The controversial law made Texas one of two states that prosecuted schoolchildren (and their parents) when students skipped school or class without a valid excuse. Last year, for example, Texas reportedly prosecuted 100,000 children and their parents for truancy. Now, instead of treating truancy as a Class C misdemeanor, the new law requires schools to address students' truancy problems, such as homelessness, illness, or other difficulties, before referring students to court. Additionally, truancy matters will now be referred to civil rather than criminal court. With a coalition led by legislators and Texas Appleseed, H.B. 2398 received broad-based support from Texas Association of School Boards, the Texas Association of Business, the Juvenile Justice Association of Texas, Texas Justices of the Peace & Constables Association, and the Texas PTA. Texas was under investigation by the Department of Justice for the truancy law this spring, and a class action suit was filed challenging the law. Read more about the bill at the Courthouse News Service here and H.B. 2398 here.
June 23, 2015 in News, State law developments | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Local District Says Collective Bargaining Clause on Teachers' Evaluations Trumps New Florida Law
Florida Gov. Rick Scott acquiesced in April to complaints that teachers' evaluations were too heavily weighted to how well their students performed on state standardized tests, signing into law a measure to the reduce the percentage that student scores made up of teachers' evaluations from half to one-third. But one Florida county, Polk County, recently announced that student standardized scores would have no impact on its teachers' evaluations this year. Polk County says that it is bound by a clause in a collective bargaining agreement with a teachers union and therefore it cannot follow state law. The clause prevents the Polk County school district from using student scores as a job-performance factor until both the district and the union, the Polk Education Association, mutually agree on the evaluation system. If the contract provision prevails, similar clauses could impact Florida's teacher evaluation system throughout the state. Read the article about the district's stance here.
June 9, 2015 in News, Teachers | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, June 5, 2015
Flagler County, FL District Settles Discrimination Complaint About Discipline Practices
Flagler County Schools (FL) agreed to change its disciplinary practices after being sued for racial discrimination against African-American students, reports the Daytona Beach News-Journal. The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a complaint against Flagler Co. Schools in 2012 for removing and arresting black students more harshly than white students. The complaint alleged in the 2010-11 school year, black students made up 16% of the Flagler Co.'s school population, but were 31% of the in-school and out-of-school suspensions and 69% of expelled students. The complaint also alleged that black students were retained at a disproportionate rate of 22%. Flagler Co. school officials told the media that it will, subject to the school board's approval, reduce out-of-school suspensions and form a citizens' committee to monitor discipline practices. The district also reportedly agreed to reserve out-of-school suspensions for situations when there's a safety concern, and require district approval for suspensions lasting five days or more. Starting in August 2016, the district will require approval for any suspension of three days or more and consider eliminating out-of-school suspensions altogether.
June 5, 2015 in Discipline, Discrimination, News | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Education Department to Fund Study on Efficacy of Online Community College Courses
The Department of Education reportedly plans to fund a $1.6 million study to review the effectiveness of online community education, following a number of smaller studies that have found that some students are less likely to complete or to do well in online courses. Last year, the Public Policy Institute of California's study of online community college courses found that student success rates in online courses are between 11 and 14 percentage points lower than in traditional courses. The PPIC's study was noteworthy as California has the nation's largest postsecondary education system. Some good news in the PPIC study found that students who take at least some online courses were more likely than those who take only traditional courses to earn an associate's degree or to transfer to a four-year institution. More data is available in a 2013 study at Columbia University, Teachers College, Di Xu & Shanna Smith Jaggars, Examining the Effectiveness of Online Learning Within a Community College System: An Instrumental Variable Approach.
June 4, 2015 in Higher education, News | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Miccosukee Indian School First Tribal School To Receive Flexibility Waiver Under NCLB
Quoted from ED.gov: The Department of Education announced in a press release Monday that the Miccosukee Indian School (MIS), the only school of the Miccosukee Indian Tribe, has received flexibility from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act/No Child Left Behind. The waiver allows the tribe to use a different definition of Adequate Yearly Progress than the State of Florida where it is located. The MIS is funded by the Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian Education and educates approximately 150 K-12 students. Secretary Arne Duncan says that the waiver allows the tribe to define its own academic and culturally-relevant strategies to reach students. Although the graduation rate increased four percent for Indian youth in recent years, the ED noted that the BIE school graduation rate is 53 percent, compared with 83 percent nationwide. The ED's efforts supports an initiative of the White House Council on Native American Affairs to restructure the BIE from a provider of education to an education service-provider to tribes.
June 3, 2015 in ESEA/NCLB, News | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, May 29, 2015
New Budget Proposal Will Create Two Systems of Public Schools Says Wisconsin Superintendent
Wisconsin education superintendent Tony Evers criticized budget proposals that could bring big changes to the state's public school system. Evers told media yesterday that the proposed 2016-17 budget "erodes the basic foundation of Wisconsin's public school system." Evers said that proposed budget will not be enough to counter inflation public school funding in the first year; in the second year, much of a proposed increase will go to expand the state's school voucher program. Moreover, much of the voucher money will subsidize private school costs for families whose children already attend private school, Evers said. Evers criticized another late addition to the education budget that allows each school district to set its own licensing requirements for new teachers. Evers says that proposal is "breathtaking in its stupidity," because it could allow people to teach without a degree or even a high school diploma and bar the state from imposing any other requirements, including criminal history or background checks. Listen to more of Evers' comments here.
May 29, 2015 in News | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
U.S. Supreme Court Denies Certiorari in New Orleans Teachers' Challenge to Termination After Katrina
The U.S. Supreme Court denied the plaintiffs' certiorari petition in Oliver v. Orleans Parish Sch. Bd. on Monday, ending the class action suit for 7,600 former New Orleans teachers and school employees. The teachers and other school employees claimed that Louisiana violated due process when the state terminated them after Hurricane Katrina and took over of 102 of the Orleans Parish's 126 schools. Overturning the Louisiana Court of Appeals decision, the Louisiana Supreme Court below held last fall that the plaintiffs' claims were barred by res judicata and that the Orleans Parish School Board did not violate the employees' due process rights by failing to recall them after Hurricane Katrina. The Louisiana Supreme Court held that the plaintiffs' claims were the subject matter of an earlier settlement between the OPSB and the Orleans Parish's teachers' union, the United Teachers of New Orleans (UTNO)—which included three persons who were also class members in Oliver case—and thus barred by res judicata. On the due process claim, the court found that the issues presented by Hurricane Katrina were so unique that there were only 526 positions available for the over 7,600 class members. Acknowledging that there was no recall list for teachers temporarily displaced by Katrina, the court found that OPSB's employee hotline to communicate to determine which employees could return to work when the schools re-opened, while imperfect, was sufficient to satisfy due process. Finally, the court found that the plaintiffs had no constitutionally protected property interest in the right to "priority consideration" for employment with a third party, the Recovery School District. The Louisiana Supreme Court's decision is here.
May 19, 2015 in Cases, News | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, May 18, 2015
Asian–American Group's Complaint Attacks Harvard's Admissions Standards
A group representing Asian-American applicants to elite colleges filed a complaint Friday with the Departments of Justice and Education alleging that Harvard University and other private elite colleges discriminate against Asian-American applicants. The complaint by the Coalition of Asian-American Associations, a group of 64 organizations, is based on data from the lawsuit of the Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. filed last November. The group's complaint is backed by Edward Blum and the team that represented plaintiff Abigail Fisher in Fisher v. Univ. of Texas at Austin. The complainants ask the government to require Harvard to, among other things to 1) stop using racial quotas or racial balancing in its admissions process, 2) limit subjective components in admissions for education purposes only (rather than for racial balancing), and provide more disclosure of its applicant pool qualifications. The Chronicle of Higher Education has posted the complaint here. The complaint's introduction sums up the group's concerns:
Over the last two decades, Asian-American applicants to Harvard University and other Ivy League colleges have increasingly experienced discrimination in the admissions process. Many Asian-American students who have almost perfect SAT scores, top 1% GPAs, plus significant awards or leadership positions in various extracurricular activities have been rejected by Harvard University and other Ivy League Colleges while similarly situated applicants of other races have been admitted. Because of this discrimination, it has become especially difficult for high performing male Asian-American students to gain admission to Harvard University and other Ivy League colleges.
May 18, 2015 in News | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Detroit Schools Plan to Create "Old" and "New" Compared to General Motors' Bankruptcy Model
Last week, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's plan to rescue the Detroit Public Schools (DPS) from its nearly $500 million debt prompted a walkout protest by the city's teachers. This week the plan is being examined more closely. The Governor's plan creates two school districts. The first will made up of the current elected DPS Board members that will exist only to retire debt, much like the General Motors bankruptcy model. The plan creates a new district that will absorb all of the city's students, employees, buildings, and labor contracts called the City of Detroit Education District (CDED). The CDED will be governed by a seven member board appointed by the Governor and Detroit's mayor. Currently, Detroit mayor Mike Duggan opposes the current plan, saying that he sees no reason to continue the state's longtime control of Detroit's schools when that control has failed over the last four years. School districts statewide also oppose the plan, worried that raising extra money will essentially require Michigan's school districts to pay $50 per pupil to avoid raising taxes. Interestingly, Detroit's newspapers on opposite sides of the political spectrum argue that Gov. Snyder's plan should given a chance. Read the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News' editorials here and here.
May 5, 2015 in News | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, May 4, 2015
OECD Suggests "Regulated School Choice" Reform for Sweden
Sweden has been an enthusiastic model for school voucher and choice programs around the world. This week, a new report reopens the debate about Sweden's school choice reforms that may contain lessons for similar efforts in the United States. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published the report on Swedish education that in part faults school choice for Sweden's declining performance on international assessments. The OECD report was prompted when Sweden's student performance on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), dropped significantly from near the OECD average in 2000 to significantly below average in 2012-- the sharpest decline among the 65 participating countries and economies. In Improving Schools in Sweden: An OECD Perspective, the OECD found that Sweden's school choice reforms were too loosely regulated and that education quality may have suffered from the lack of oversight. The report also points to school choice as a contributor to almost half of Sweden's children from immigrant backgrounds (48%) failing to make a passing grade in mathematics on the PISA. The OECD suggests that Sweden regulate private voucher programs and charters more closely to maintain education quality and improve how disadvantaged families receive information about schools, because the OECD is concerned that disadvantaged families may be overlooking better-ranked schools to stay in more familiar (and at times, more ethnically and socio-economically segregated) environments. When this debate started years ago, economists argued that no one could tell what prompted the decline in Sweden's PISA scores because the country started so many different reforms at once. One economist faulted that the country's largely unregulated entry and oversight in implementing charters and private school voucher programs; another argued that Sweden's schools were hampered in designing their own curriculum and teaching methods. In a Slate article a few years ago, the New Orleans Recovery District Superintendent acknowledged that part of that district's success came from district administrators (rather than market pressures) deciding which charters could stay open and from recruiting top quality teachers and administrators from around the country to start a new district nearly from the ground up, situations unlikely to be replicated in most districts in the nation. Read more about the OECD report and Sweden's response here.
May 4, 2015 in Charters and Vouchers, News | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, April 24, 2015
School Suspends Sixth Grader for a Year for Possessing Leaf Found Not to Be Marijuana
Last month Derek cited a study correlating higher student marijuana use to schools in which administrators reported using out-of-school suspensions and students reported low policy enforcement. That has not slowed the use of such policies in some districts, however, as the Roanoke Times reports that an eleven year old student was disciplined under circumstances that seem excessive even under zero tolerance policies. Acting on a student tip, an assistant principal at Bedford Middle School (VA) found a green leaf and a lighter in a plastic baggie in a sixth grader's backpack at school last fall. School resource officers from the sheriff's office field-tested the leaf, which tested negative for marijuana. The student was nevertheless arrested and charged as a juvenile for marijuana possession. Two further tests of the leaf confirmed that it was not marijuana. That confirmation that the bag contained an ordinary leaf was not the end of the matter, however. An administrator told the student's parents that the juvenile's charge dismissal did not resolve the school's zero tolerance policies, and the student was suspended for a year. After sixth months of online education and homeschooling, the student was permitted to return to school (albeit a different school) under strict probationary terms. The student's parents, a current and a retired teacher, have sued the district and the Sheriff's Office for due process violations and for malicious prosecution. The case reportedly has been sent to mediation. Read more about the case here.
April 24, 2015 in Discipline, News | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Mississippi and Tennessee Pass Special Education Voucher Bills
Last week, Mississippi enacted a special education voucher law (the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act), and in Tennessee this week another special education voucher bill, the Individualized Education Act, is headed for Gov. Bill Haslam's signature. Both bills are roughly modeled on Florida's McKay Scholarship special education voucher program, which started under then-Gov. Jeb Bush. Mississippi's pilot program provides $6,500 to parents for special needs services and private school tutoring and tuition when parents feel that the local public school cannot meet their child's needs. In Tennessee, parents would receive $6,000 per student for special education expenses such as physical therapy, private schooling, home schooling, and textbooks. Tennessee's state comptroller acknowledged that the special education voucher bill would be inaccessible for most special education students. The proposed voucher would not replace public school special education services unless students' families were affluent enough to cover the additional cost of private school tuition or can homeschool their children. In both states, some legislators and special education advocates unsuccessfully opposed the bills, pointing out the financial limitations, the risk of segregating special education students from mainstream classrooms, and private schools' lack of accountability under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Public education funding is also at issue, considering that public schools will still have to provide special educational services with less money after students leave the public school system. Because of fixed costs such as such as facilities and special education personnel, public schools' special education costs do not balance out simply because some students leave public schools, Professor Ron Zimmer (Vanderbilt) told Chalkbeat Tennessee.
April 23, 2015 in Charters and Vouchers, News, Special Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Oklahoma City Superintendent Plans Broad Changes after Internal Audit of Disciplinary Practices
This February, the UCLA Civil Rights Project's school discipline study reported that Oklahoma City Public Schools district (OCPS) was one of the nation's ten highest highest-suspending districts for secondary school students. Yesterday, OCPS Superintendent Rob Neu announced plans to reduce the district's 3,000 annual suspensions through behavior programs and by shortening the length of suspensions. Neu was responding to the results of the district's internal audit which confirmed some of the UCLA report's findings. That study noted that OCPS' suspension rate for minorities exceeded other districts surveyed, with 75 percent of African-American male high school students and 54 percent of African-American female high school students in the district suspended at least once in 2012, and 60 percent of Native American male and 40 percent Native American female high school suspended that year. Neu told the media that the district planned to respond to racial disparity in school suspensions by hiring more teachers and administrators of color and "become more culturally aware of the students that we're serving." Links to the OCPS audit are available here.
April 22, 2015 in Discipline, News | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Takes on the Atlanta Cheating Trial
Yesterday, Judge Jerry Baxter, the presiding judge over the Atlanta cheating trial, berated the former educators who declined an offered (and unusual) post-trial deal in exchange for accepting responsibility. (Two of the defendants took the deal; a pregnant defendant has not yet been sentenced.) Because it was a slower news day, Judge Baxter's public scolding that kids could not read because of the defendants' actions made headline news. True to his warning that he would sentenced defendants to prison unless they admitted to guilt and waived their right to appeal, yesterday, the top administrators in the scheme were sentenced to seven years; the teachers' sentences ranged between one and two years in prison. Eleven defendants were found guilty on April 1 on racketeering and false statement charges for participating in a scheme to boost standardized test scores on Georgia's Criterion-Referenced Competency Test, designed to fulfill the accountability requirements of No Child Left Behind. Atlanta Public Schools educators cheated, the jury found, by supplying answers to students or changing answers after the tests. Prosecutors alleged that the educators were motivated by threats from Beverly Hall, former APS superintendent who died before the trial, that their jobs and APS' federal money would be jeopardized if Atlanta's public students failed to show sufficient progress under NCLB. Some voices of criticism are emerging however, including Richard Rothstein's take on the cheating trial on the Economic Policy Institute's Blog as "inevitable when out-of-touch policymakers set impossible-to-achieve goals and expect that success will nonetheless follow if only underlings are held accountable for measurable results." I wonder if the Georgia Supreme Court will be uneasy about the use of Georgia's RICO statute here to expose the defendants to a harsher sentencing range, which has the same "surgery with an axe" feel to it is used to characterize honest services fraud prosecutions. Admittedly, the state's racketeering law gives state prosecutors a lighter burden than their federal counterparts in proving that an "enterprise" existed that the defendants controlled "through a pattern of racketeering activity," but RICO is typically reserved for more than garden-variety fraud.
April 15, 2015 in News | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, April 9, 2015
New Book on Education Policy: Race to the Bottom: Corporate Reform and the Future of Public Education
The Washington Post has a summary of a new book, Race to the Bottom: Corporate Reform and the Future of Public Education (Apr. 2015) by Michael V. McGill, professor of school leadership at Bank Street College of Education and former superintendent of the Scarsdale, NY schools. In his summary, McGill challenges the modern school reform movement's "silver bullet strategies" that have produced only modest gains in raising standardized test scores and closing achievement gaps. These efforts, he argues, have only succeeded in creating a divisive environment that has undermined the quality of education. Among some concrete suggestions for invigorating educators and school districts, Professor McGill proposes three broad areas of change for education policy:
- recognizing that a strategy of audit and control cannot produce the results of the same quality that human development can, let alone liberate the talent necessary to create an education for the 21st century;
- offset economic disparities and racial discrimination through adequate education funding; and
- re-engaging the partners in the education enterprise—governments, localities, universities, the research community—in relationships that are both authentic and reciprocal, so that the parties respect and draw on each other's wisdom and energy.
Read Professor McGill's summary of Race to the Bottom here.
April 9, 2015 in News, Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0)


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and received on 8/16 the green Return Receipt. On 8/22 I called and asked when the refund would be credited back to my account and was told it would 21 days for a refund (which would be September
14, 2011). Called on 9/13 and customer service told me they had no record of issuance of a refund and would send a request for refund. It would be about 24-48 hours to process and then would take 5-7 business days for refund. This makes a total of an additional 9 business days (which would be approximately September 26, 2011) before I will receive a refund. Since I returned the product on August 10, 2011, it will be a total of almost 30+days before I can receive a refund which is not in my opinion very customer service oriented business and not acceptable in my opinion. For this reason, I will not order anything else from this company.
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Hi Ladies! I am new to this board. I was never apart of the babycenter community with my ODS but have been using it a lot with my newest LO (born march 25 2012). I have a question about nap time for my ODS (born June 2 2009) so I figured I would just come on over here and ask instead of posting on the march 2012 board.... Are your Junies still taking naps? My DS has started to have a hard time going down for naps within the last 2 months or so. He used to be a great napper, taking 3+ hr naps if we didn't wake him up. He would get into bed and fall right asleep. Now, he will lay in bed for an hour or more before he falls asleep. Well actually most of the time I have to go in his room several times and tell him to get back in bed because he will get up and start playing. So my question is, is it really time to cut the naps?? please tell me no lol. He definitely still needs them because he is mighty crabby/whiny in the evening when he doesn't get one. Any advice is appreciated. TIA!
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When we are at home in the late afternoon, then she has the option to take a nap or have quiet time. Quiet time means she can "read" books, or play quietly by herself. This quiet time is needed otherwise she gets really cranky and out of control later in the day.
We just quit naps about a week ago! He does quiet time for an hour- looks at books in bed or colors at his table. He was actually still falling asleep at nap most days but he kept getting up earlier and earlier in the morning (days he wouldn't fall asleep at nap I let him get up after an hour and put him to bed earlier).
So now we have moved bedtime up a half hour and he sleeps in an hour later than he was with a nap. He fell asleep looking at books the first day but since he hasn't and isn't at all cranky in the evening. He is actually being much more pleasant now on this schedule.
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We are still napping but she does go through phases where she doesn't for a week but it has lasted up to a month. There have been times were she also took an hour to fall asleep but I try to stick to a schedule and am very consistent. I wake her around 7 just so she'll nap and she naps between 1-3 and the amount varies but normally she sleeps for 90 mins. We have her in bed by 8 and she falls asleep by 8:30. The reason we still feel she needs one is because she breaks down and acts loopy by 5 if we don't give her one.
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My Junie still gets naps most of the time. Every once and a while he'll cut one out for the day, but MAN is he a crab in the evening without a nap. He doesn't take as long of a nap, he's only napping 1-2 hours now instead of like three, but I still think they're a great thing.
Sometimes, like you said, we have to tell him to lay down. I've been turning a movie on for him, he'll fall asleep like 1/2 way through.
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It is a rare occasion that she still gets a nap. Like pp said if we are in the car in the afternoon she will most likely doze off otherwise naps are few and far between. She hasn't been on a consistant nap schedule for about 4 months.
My LO has not had naps for over a month now. She just goes to bed early if she is cranky. I got tired fighting with her everyday to have a nap/quiet time.
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I cut naps for my DD. On the days when she would actually nap, she wouldn't sleep at night and would be up until midnight. The days that she didn't nap, she would go to bed at 8:30 and pass right out and she would wake up at 8 or 9 instead of 10 or 11, which works much better for school and appointments! I no longer have to wake her up, which is quite the task!
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ODS doesn't go down for naps anymore. He does take a nap on days he wakes up super early, or wears himself out, but its not often. And when he does take a nap he WILL NOT go to bed at night because he isn't tired. Naps screw us over more than they help these days :/
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Monday was a busy day for the three candidates eager to become Hastings' next police chief. First, the three candidates sat down for second interviews with three representatives from the city. Then, later Monday, the candidates met the public during an open house at City Hall. The candidates are Wayne Hicks, a sergeant with the Hastings Police Department; Rick Mathwig, the interim chief of police in Roseville; and Paul Schnell, the public information officer with the St.
The Hastings girls softball team earned the No. 1 seed in the upcoming section tournament. Hastings will play its first game of the tournament here at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 26. Hastings will play the winner of the evening's first game between No. 8 seeded Austin and No. 9 seeded Owatonna. The winner advances to the final four. The season ends for the loser. The final four tournament will be played in Austin beginning Friday.
The three finalists have been named for the Hastings Chief of Police position. The three were certified by the Hastings City Council Monday night at the council's regular meeting. They are Wayne Hicks of the Hastings Police Department; Rick Mathwig of the Roseville Police Department; and Paul Schnell of the St. Paul Police Department. Here are profiles on all three candidates, in alphabetical order: Wayne Hicks Sergeant Hastings Police Department Background: Wayne Hicks is a 1979 graduate of Hastings High School.
Monday, May 10, wasn't a bad day for Hastings High School senior Jenelle Trautmann. She pitched a no-hitter, had two hits and knocked in one run in a 4-0 win over Park in a Suburban East Conference softball game. Trautmann is one of the many reasons the Hastings softball team is among the state's best again this season. The Raiders are 16-3 on the season and have won 12 of their last 13 games. Included in those wins were three at Saturday's Benilde-St.
Residents who use Pleasant Drive, Westview Drive, 15th Street and Lyn Way will officially see those roads in much better shape by the end of the summer. On Monday, the Hastings City Council approved a $1.91 million bid from Hardrives to perform extensive work on all four roads. Pleasant Drive will see work from 15th Street to South Frontage Road. Westview Drive will see work from 15th Street all the way to Pleasant Drive. Lyn Way will see work from South Frontage Road to 15th Street. As for 15th Street, it, too, will see work, but that will be a relatively small project area.
Residents of Hastings are encouraged to attend an open house to meet the three finalists for the Chief of Police position here. The open house will begin at 5:45 p.m. in the Community Room at City Hall. Beginning at 6:15 p.m., there will be introductions and a question-and-answer session with each candidate. "One of the things we heard in this process was that the police chief is obviously one of the primary public positions in our community," City Administrator Dave Osberg said.
The vacant lot at 15th and Vermillion Streets in Hastings may soon have a tenant. A NAPA auto parts store would be the tenant. The lot is where the former Jiffy gas station once sat. The Linn Companies, owners of the Hastings Holiday and the Hastings Goodyear, purchased the lot. They removed the Jiffy store and a house adjacent to the business, making room for possible redevelopment. The business is a long ways away from actually breaking ground on the site.
Three finalists for the Hastings Chief of Police position have been named. They are Wayne Hicks of the Hastings Police Department, Rick Mathwig of the Roseville Police Department and Paul Schnell of the St. Paul Police Department. The three were named the finalists at Monday night's meeting of the Hastings City Council. All three will have a second round of interviews May 24. More information will be posted as it becomes available.
An effort to reduce the speed limit on U.S. Highway 61 near the Hastings bridge may be gaining some momentum. Minnesota Department of Transportation officials alerted State Representative Denny McNamara, R-Hastings, by e-mail late last week that a new study is under way. Results will be made public when the study is completed. A fatal crash just north of the Hastings bridge May 3 brought the issue to the forefront again. It had been a hot topic two years ago, too, when fatal crashes claimed more lives. In all, six lives have been lost on Highway 61 between U.S.
A 1-0, eight-inning loss to Mounds View on Wednesday, May 5, snapped the Hastings girls softball team's five-game winning streak. The loss was another close, extra-inning affair for the Raiders. Hastings has a 10-3 record on the season. The three losses have been by a combined total of four runs, and two were extra-inning games. "We're so close," Hastings coach Dean Robinson said. We're an error away, and a big hit away, from being undefeated. It's nothing we're really panicking over.


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HBO Not Interested in a Bradley vs Alexander Rematch
By Mark Vester
Devon Alexander (21-1, 13KOs) may want a rematch with Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11KOs), but he likely won't get it - at least not on HBO. The network is reportedly not interested in a return fight, at least not at the moment. Bradley won a ten round technical decision after Alexander, following a clash of heads, told the ringside doctor that he was unable to see from a damaged right eye. The fight took place at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan and Bradley unified the WBO/WBC 140-pound titles.
There is a rematch clause in the contract and Alexander has expressed his desire to exercise the clause. Prior to their fight, both boxers were guaranteed future appearances on HBO, so Alexander is still going to benefit regardless. The fight did not live up to hype and the action was non-existent due to a clash of styles.
[QUOTE=paulf;10031478]Glad HBO is smart enough to know it's time to cut their losses and get out. [B]Tim Bradley tried to tell them countless times that this fight didn't make sense at this point in time.[/B] Neither of them are well…Comment by ronnie_N. on 01-30-2011
there you have it folks... boxing is dead... at least for the black americans (slick / non-slick)...Comment by ImElvis666 on 01-30-2011
The fight was a stinker and I don't blame either boxer. It was just a horrible clash of styles. I can see where HBO are coming from. Bring on Khan v Bradley. If Bradley wants a tune up, he should…Comment by kingfaze19 on 01-30-2011
i know these are not the "slick african americans" Bhop was talkin about, Pacquiao will destroy BOTH of them within 8 rounds. . Khan will beat Bradley, and Kotelnik beat Alexander worse than Bradley did.Comment by SUPREME. on 01-30-2011
There you have it. Khan-Bradley coming soon. Khan by wide unanimous decision. All my points.Post a Comment - View More User Comments (55)


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Wednesday Oct. 15, 2008
It's the day Augusta State's basketball team has been looking forwrad to for about seven months now, the start of practice.
You see it was seven months ago when ASU lost in the national title game, in their first ever appearance. With a solid corp of players returning, plenty of reasons to think the Jags can make another run deep into march. Matter of fact, last year is the motivation for this year.
"We've had diner and we're just going for dessert right now." said senior Garret Siler "We want to go back to the same position we were at last year, try to go back to Massachussetts. But before that we have to win the first game we play on November 22nd."
"That's the past for us, we're looking forward to the future right now. We're working hard, and looking to be ready to be back where we were last year." added senior Steve Smith
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