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Steven Foard Darsey holds the Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and has studied musicology with the late Peter LeHuray at Cambridge and conducting with Helmuth Rilling at Stuttgart. He has conducted numerous performances and has prepared choruses for Sir David Willcocks and the late Robert Shaw. He lectures and publishes on the history and practice of church music and his work on Georgia's famous tunebook, The Sacred Harp, led him to establish a series of worship services with Fred Craddock based on Southern Folk Hymns. A composer, he has written and arranged some 125 works with publications through Lyra Sacra, Lawson-Gould and World Library music publishers. The summer of 2009, he completed his oratorio setting of Sidney Lanier's, "The Marshes of Glynn." For his work on Georgia's Ossabaw Island on this composition, he was named the Sandy West Ossabaw Fellow for 2010. He currently holds a commission for a setting of John Wesley's Covenant Prayer. President of Meridian Herald, since 1986, he has been Music Director for the Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church on the Emory University Campus, Atlanta, Georgia.


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I was recently in a part of Mesa, AZ that's chock-a-block full of chain restaurants. I'm of the belief that if I want everything to taste just like it does at home . . . I'd stay at home. You might live in a part of the world that doesn't have lots of chain restaurants, for reasons of zoning, tight economic development and planning, etc. You might not know a restaurant is part of a behemoth chain! That's why it's good to ask your hotel concierge what are the indie restaurants in the area. I did and got fantastic results.
That's why I want to point out a very special, family-owned Mexican restaurant that's been making people happy since 1953: Matta's. I was recently sharing a snack there with my friend and fantastic colleague, (Chicago) World Travel Examiner, Carol Stigger. As I sometimes joke to her, Carol once bought me a gelato in Italy and I was her friend forevermore!
Matta's makes everything from scratch and considers themselves "West Texas-style Mexican" cuisine. Our very sweet server kept us stocked with complimentary tortilla chips, hot sauces and a chunky pico de gallo: bright with fresh cilantro, scallions, chopped good red tomatoes. Hey, we didn't get them just because we're so great -- you'll get them too!
I have a particular weakness for good, homemade soups. They have two! Albondiga soup sounded good, with meatballs, broth and veggies, but it's like something I make at home on a regular basis. Again, I was traveling, so I wanted something different. Spanish soup has potatoes, onions, tomatoes and roasted green chile in a seasoned veggie broth. It was hearty, flavorful, a huge portion and packed with vegetables.
Carol and I shared some Relleno Bites: little lightly breaded chile rellenos, chopped into bite sizes. Chile rellenos tend to go in one of two directions: awesome or awful. These were most certainly awesome: fresh, crisp fried (and drained), with a blend of cheese and meat -- which was unfamiliar to me -- and a light egg batter. Nothing goopy or greasy about it. Perfect food to share!
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Last time we checked in with Burlingame attorney Joe Cotchett, he'd just finished a 4 1/2 hour prison sitdown with Bernie Madoff and was getting to work amending a lawsuit he had filed against Madoff family members and business associates. Cotchett delivered the revised goods today. And there are some well known names on it, […] [Read More]
Madoff's Bay Area restaurant interest
Among Bernie Madoff's assets the Feds are going after — property companies, loans to his sons, partial ownership in companies held by Madoff and his wife, Ruth, etc. — is Bacar, the "contemporary American" restaurant located in San Francisco's Soma district. Calls are in to restaurant manager Gerardo Acevedo. To see the list of Madoff […] [Read More]
Not guilty by association
Stanford University wants us to know it is not related in any way to Sir Robert Allen Stanford, the Texas billionaire accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of cheating tens of thousands of investors out of an estimated $8 billion dollars. Nor is it connected in any way with the Stanford Financial Group, one […] [Read More]
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A San Francisco hedge fund, MedCap Management & Research LLC (MMR) has been nabbed by the local SEC for alleged "portfolio pumping," that is, artificially pumping up its end-of-the-quarter books to make the company look in better shape than it otherwise might be. According to the SEC, the company, and its head, Charles Frederick Toney, […] [Read More]
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Washington, D.C., Sept. 16, 2008 – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged San Francisco-area investment adviser Cornerstone Capital Management, Inc. for misrepresenting the value of its clients' investments in what turned out to be a series of Ponzi schemes. The inimitable Ms. Kent In an order instituting administrative proceedings against the firm and its […] [Read More]
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DENVER -- Despite another last-place finish, the Colorado Rockies liked what manager Walt Weiss did with a banged-up team in his rookie season as manager and rewarded him with a three-year contract on Tuesday.
Weiss went 74-88, a 10-game improvement over the previous season, after leaving his head coaching job at Regis Jesuit High School last fall.
He managed on a one-year deal with the Rockies in 2013 after Jim Tracy stepped down following a 64-98 season in 2012.
Now, there are no more questions about his security.
"I think it comes down to stability -- stability for a club, from the players' perspective, that a manger is going to be around," Weiss said. "They know the manager is going to be there and he's the guy running the club. I think there's something to be said for that."
Weiss said he's close to filling the hitting instructor's job that Dante Bichette left for family reasons and is leaning toward following the trend in baseball and use two coaches in that role. He also said the rest of his coaching staff will return in 2014.
Colorado hung around and was just 4 1/2 games behind Los Angeles at the All-Star break before the Dodgers and Rockies went in different directions.
After a free-fall, they went 22-24 over their final 46 games, giving them hope for a turnaround next season behind starting pitchers Jorge De La Rosa, Jhoulys Chacin and Tyler Chatwood and the core of Troy Tulowitzki, Carlos Gonzalez, Dexter Fowler, Michael Cuddyer, Nolan Arenado and Wilin Rosario.
"I like the way our guys competed down the stretch, when we looked like we were out of it. Our guys still played really hard ... playing to the last out of every game, the last out of the season. For me, that was a bright spot," Weiss said.
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Beck: Nebraska's Offense is Unique in the Big Ten
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If you look at the latest NCAA offensive rankings, Nebraska hardly jumps off the page … 44th in third-down conversion percentage, 51st in total offense, and 90th in time-of-possession comparisons. But stats can be misleading because the Huskers are also 9th nationally in rushing (252.1 ypg), 22nd in scoring (35.9 ppg) and here's something you just can't find on a stat sheet – the Huskers are, well … they're unique offensively, and that's a definitive advantage in their first year in the Big Ten Conference. "We're different than everybody we watch on film," Nebraska offensive coordinator Tim Beck told 400 fans Wednesday at the monthly Husker Athletic Fund Luncheon at Lincoln's Downtown Embassy Suites. The Huskers are also younger than most any other Big Ten offense with only five seniors among their top 25 players on the depth chart – wide receiver Brandon Kinnie, left tackle Jermarcus Hardrick, center Mike Caputo, right tackle Marcel Jones and fullback Tyler Legate. Jones introduced Beck at Wednesday's luncheon, and his offensive coordinator feigned surprise, saying the first two years he knew Jones, he was so quiet and laid back, "I didn't even know he spoke," Beck quipped.
Beck explained Nebraska's consistency after the Huskers put together their most complete game of the season, offensively, defensively and on special teams in a 24-3 win over Michigan State last Saturday. "As we've gone through the conference, we've obviously learned a lot from some of these teams in terms of what they do," Beck said, adding that he's proud of "what we've done offensively in staying the course and continuing to play physical and just hanging in there and doing what we do … sometimes setting teams up for the second half and trying to do something different for every team that we play."
Being different to watch on film gives Nebraska a built-in advantage. "There's a certain amount for us as coaches to prepare," Beck said. "I don't want to use the word guessing, but there's a certain amount of how they're going to try to stop you. Not a lot of teams, for example, run the option. So anytime we go into the game, it's new (for opposing defenses)." Using a vast array of different offensive looks makes the Huskers harder to prepare for. "But to really know how they're going to play us, we won't know until we do it," Beck said. "So it's kind of one of those things that people say they wish we would start a little bit faster, but sometimes it's a feeling out process to see what they're doing, how they're doing it and how we're going to be able to attack them."
The last few games, the Blackshirts have played so well that Nebraska has been positioned "to set 'em up and be able to wear 'em down, and I think our tempo has helped us … make some plays later on and convert when we need those conversions." Beck hopes Nebraska's defensive mastery continues because in Northwestern, the Huskers will be facing a team that reminds Beck of what his own offense does. "You can tell they're playing for their coach," Beck said. "They're going to play hard. They have a bunch of overachievers, hard-working guys … blue-collar guys. They run the football. They're smart. They do some unique things in certain situations, so we have to come to play. They're going to be a good challenge, just like it is every week in the Big Ten." Beck also told Nebraska donors and fans that he's thought all along that the Huskers "could be a very, very good football team. But we have to play well. We can't take plays off. We have to play one quarter at a time and one game at a time."
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How to use SFC /SCANNOW command in Windows 8
An article by Shyam Sasindran, MVP 2 Comments
You have encountered a situation where your system files might get corrupted. In such cases the easiest way to rebuild the damage files or to find who which ones got corrupted you could use "SFC SCANNOW" command on Windows 8. To run SFC Scannow follow these steps.
- Go to Windows UI screen
- Type in CMD
- Now right click on "Command Prompt"
- Click on "Run as administrator" from the bottom of the screen
- Or you can use the Power User Task Menu
- From the Desktop press Win + X then click on "Command Prompt (Admin)"
- Then type in sfc /scannow and press Enter
- You're done it should start the System Integrity Check
- The CBS.log file is located in the %windir%\Logs\CBS folder
- In command prompt type in
findstr /C:"[SR] Cannot repair member file" %windir%\logs\cbs\cbs.log >c:\sfcreport.txt
- Or you could use (Thanks for AceInfinity)
findstr /C:"[SR] Cannot repair member file" %windir%\logs\cbs\cbs.log > %windir:~0,1%:\sfcreport.txt
- Now you can open the sfcreport.txt from C drive. Follow this Microsoft KB928228
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Located in the heart of Sweden with beautiful surroundings we offer high quality flight training on fixed wing, trike and with a specialty on gyrocopter / autogyro.
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Galaxy Training Center your partner in Aviation Crew Training! Galaxy Training Center is the successor of Skyways Training Center in Sweden, which has a good history in aviation training in Sweden.
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We fly gyrocopters all over the world, So far we done gyrocopter flying in most European countries as well as Turkey and Spain.
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Our Helicopter Flight School is base at Stockholm-Vasteras Airport which is a very good airport for efficient training, and as we also work as a helicopter dealer we can help you buy your own helicopter which then can be used for training you to a PPL-H.
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Chicago is ground zero for disastrous 'free market' reforms of education
Chicago has turned public schools into privately run charters. The results aren't stellar and other cities should beware
If you want a glimpse of what slash-and-burn free market education reform does in cities throughout the US, look no further than Chicago. Last week, Chicago Public Schools announced its plan to close 54 public elementary schools in the city by next year – about 8% of all public schools in the city. Almost all are located on the city's south and west sides in predominantly black neighborhoods.
In a city where the majority of black children live in poverty, in communities long plagued by hyper-segregation, unemployment, youth violence, and disinvestment, these neighborhoods will likely be thrown into further chaos, as students (91% of whom are students of color) are forced to cross into rival gang territories. Public schools, which served as one of the few remaining community anchors, will be shuttered.
Chicago Public Schools claims the move will save $43m annually, and is necessary to close a budget deficit of $1bn over the next three years. The district has a history ofusing questionable math, issuing loud proclamations of deficits to justify austerity measures like closures, then quietly discovering budget surpluses months later. Even if CPS is telling the truth about the size of its deficit, the numbers on closures don't quite add up. They would only shrink the district's deficit by a small percentage and only in the long term, at least according to the district's statements. Independent analyses also show that past closures have produced minimal or nonexistent savings for the district.
So if budget shortfalls aren't the real issue, why, in neighborhoods desperately in need of strong public institutions like neighborhood schools, would a district shutter 54 schools and "turn around" or consolidate 17 others? And if the deficit is the issue but savings wouldn't be seen for several years, why would CPS propose the largest number of school closures in American history, in one fell swoop, rather than proceed cautiously with a few each year for several years?
Perhaps because some within the district are looking to dismantle education as a public good by handing schooling over to free market forces, and they know the only way to accomplish this is through "shock doctrine"-style policies, ramming the closures down the throats of a citizenry that would never freely choose them.
Over the past two decades, a remarkable consensus has solidified among both American political parties that free market reform is the panacea for all that ills public education. And Chicago has long been what education policy scholar Pauline Lipman calls the "incubator, test case, and model for the neoliberal urban education agenda," through programs like Renaissance 2010 (pdf), a program to close and "turn around" schools deemed failing (and the basis for the Obama administration's Race to the Top program),mayoral control of schools with an unelected CEO and school board, and the 110 charter schools that have cropped up in recent years.
The rise of charters has been central to the reform plans of current Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his predecessor, Richard M. Daley, including their school closure strategy. In the past dozen years, CPS has closed 75 schools; 40% are now run by private operators, most of which are charters. Of the schools targeted for "turnaround" under Ren2010, a process that includes firing all teachers at schools deemed low-performing, nearly all are now charters.
The district insists that the current spate of closures is necessitated by declining enrollment, but plans to open new charters are continuing full-steam ahead. Charter operators like the United Neighborhood Organization (UNO), for example, a close ally of Emanuel that runs 13 schools in the city and recently caught flak for giving millions in publicly funded contracts to executives' close friends and family like a kind of 21st century patronage organization, was awarded a $98m grant from the state of Illinois in 2009 and recently applied for $35m. The network has big plans to open new schools in the near future, amassing huge amounts of debt (serviced with public money) to fund its expansion.
Maybe the district's goal isn't to fix underutilization. Maybe CPS is more interested in expanding charter schools, privatizing public education, and weakening the Chicago Teachers Union. Charters, of course, are overwhelmingly non-union, and that is a principal appeal for reformers pushing them. Charter school students may not outperform traditional public school students, in Chicago or elsewhere, but they do help weaken teachers unions – the biggest potential roadblock to the free marketeers' agenda.
Not all teachers unions have had the willingness or wherewithal to resist that agenda; many have capitulated, or at least been complicit. But the Chicago Teachers Union hasfought back. In November, 10 people were arrested in a sit-in outside Mayor Emanuel's City Hall office. Today, thousands of CTU members – alongside community activists, clergy, CPS students, and members of other unions – will return to City Hall, shutting down part of downtown in the middle of rush hour before many are arrested in an act of civil disobedience. The union and the communities will demand the district halt all school closings.
The school reformers peddling neoliberal snake oil, promising the healing benefits of privatizing the country's public school system, are undoubtedly watching Chicago very closely, looking for strategies to export to other cities. But the teachers and communities sure to be devastated by such policies should pay attention, too, as free market education policies spread from New Orleans and Detroit to Philadelphia and beyond, they might glean some useful lessons for resistance.
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A rural school chief sent me this note late Friday:
I am forwarding to you an email from Herb Garrett at the Georgia School Superintendent's Association that was sent out today to all Georgia superintendents. Herb explains the financial impact of laws already passed regarding charter schools and the differences in funding between those students and the ones attending traditional public schools. Herb clearly quotes GADOE as the source for the financial projections.
Can you find out if this information is accurate? I have the utmost trust and faith in Herb Garrett but I am astonished that our Governor and legislators would clearly gut public education in Georgia to this extent. As a small rural system, we are doing everything we can to stay afloat despite the continuing cuts. But, if the GADOE's calculations are correct, the Legislature is obviously funding charter schools more favorably than traditional public schools. How can this happen?
Friday evening, I asked DOE spokesman Matt Cardoza to read Garrett's letter and tell me whether he was correct that state charter schools — of which there will be a lot more if voters endorse a constitutional amendment on the November ballot — will earn more state funding under a law passed this year.
Cardoza promised to get with DOE experts over the weekend and get back to me. I received this response Saturday at noon: "I've confirmed that those numbers are correct. Our financial review team ran the numbers based on what the legislation says."
I also asked DeKalb Sen. Fran Millar, R-Dunwoody, for comment yesterday but he wanted to see what DOE had to say about Garrett's calculations. He did say, "It was my understanding that the charter schools ended up with about 75 percent of what the traditional public schools received. I am opposed to the new charter systems receiving $100 per child. We can't afford it and it is time to discontinue the practice."
(Systems that convert to charter school status get extra funding for reasons still unclear to me.)
As to the rural school chief's other question — How can this happen at a time when the state is cutting school funding to the bone? — I will let you all offer responses to that.
Given this funding disparity, though, it would make far more sense now for aspiring charter schools to seek state approval rather than local. However, the underlying problem remains that school funding in Georgia is a mess, rife with inconsistencies that the school finance task force, of which Millar is co-chair, must address.
Here is Herb Garrett's email:
Ladies and gentlemen:
I will devote the entirety of this Friday's notes (Sorry, it's a lengthy one!) to an explanation of the funding mechanism that was put into place by the 2012 Georgia General Assembly to fund state special charter schools. The Department of Education has now made the calculations as to just what this will cost, and you should know the results.
First, you should know that, regardless of the outcome of the November vote, this funding mechanism enacted as a result of the passage of HB797 will still be used to determine how much extra state money will be needed to support state special charter schools, and it is already in effect. The original HB797 contemplated the use of this procedure for commission charter schools formed in the future if the proposed constitutional amendment on November's ballot is approved by voters (HB797 was passed, by the way, with only one, single, "after-thought" opportunity for public comment.). A Senate amendment to the bill sponsored by Senator Ronnie Chance, R-Tyrone, was added (again, with no debate or discussion) which makes this funding procedure effective for the current state special charter schools (and, will require a significant outlay of additional state dollars in the upcoming mid-term budget). After Senate passage, the House agreed to the amended version.
I think the best way to make the point is to compare just how much state money our General Assembly plans to send to state special charter schools as compared to the amount they will send to local school systems to support the education of students in traditional K-12 schools. I'll compare the amount for regular education fifth grade students. Here's the scoop (based on DOE-calculated numbers):
For a fifth grader in a state special charter school, the initial amount granted is the full QBE earning for that child ($3,318.14) with no deduction for local five mill share. For a fifth grader in a traditional K-12 school, that amount, on average statewide (varies from system to system based on the value of the local five mill share within that system) is $2,695.71 (already a $600 difference).
That difference is further exacerbated by the austerity cuts that are applied to the earnings of local schools systems ($690.27 per student) but not applied to the earnings of state special charter schools. This latest reduction is mitigated somewhat for systems that receive equalization grants, but those grants do not come close to offsetting the austerity cuts in place for FY13 (or, in the eleven previous years).
Both the state special charter school students and the students in traditional K-12 schools earn state funds for transportation and for school nutrition (Both must offer these services to get the funds.), so let's assume that both get the $95.85 total per student that comes with these two programs.
Now, at this point the fifth grader in a state special charter school begins to get even more state money than what is sent by the state for the fifth grader in a traditional K-12 school. The charter school student, as a result of the calculation mandated in HB797, gets additional state money equal to the average per pupil amount of the local funds available in the five poorest systems in the state (including the five mill share money already included once before in the first calculation, a clear "double dip"). That adds another $2,560.94 per student for the state special charter school student.
Then, and again as a result of the calculation mandated in HB797, still more state dollars are sent to support that fifth grader in a state special charter school based on capital outlay dollars. Amazingly, additional state funds are allotted based on the per pupil amount of state capital outlay funds PLUS a per pupil amount based on statewide ESPLOST revenues per FTE. This amount comes to $1,017.35 per student, and it is not at all clear that these funds have to be spent on capital projects, as would be the case in local systems.
So, if my calculations are correct (and, they are based on DOE numbers that were provided to me), the state will send approximately $2,101.29 in STATE DOLLARS to local school systems to support the education of a fifth grader in a traditional K-12 school. At the same time, beginning this Fall, they will send $6,992.28 in STATE DOLLARS per child to support the education of a fifth grader in a state special charter school. (NOTE: State special charter schools of the virtual variety receive 2/3 of the total of all components except the capital outlay and nutrition/transportation pieces, so the STATE DOLLARS going to support a fifth grader in that venue amount to $3,921.25.)
The figures are clear: The state will send to state special charter schools 2.5 times more STATE DOLLARS per child than they are sending to local systems (those that do not receive equalization grants); for students in state special virtual charter schools, it is 1.9 times more. By DOE's calculations and according to the tenets of HB797, this will require that $26,839,637 in NEW STATE DOLLARS be included in the state budget (over and above the QBE earnings for charter school students AND over and above the $8.65 million already added to the budget to pay for state special charter schools) to fund the state special charter schools we already have. The figures are clear, but the message is even clearer: our General Assembly will gladly find and spend more money per child to educate students in state special charter schools than they will spend to educate the students in our traditional K-12 schools.
And, this message comes on a day when the headlines in the AJC announce that state agencies are being directed to find another $553 MILLION to cut between now and 2014!
One of the arguments all along has been that HB797 calls for no "local money" to be used to support state special charter schools, as was the case with the provisions of the former HB881 which created a shell game to capture the equivalent of local funds. Some have even gone so far as to describe the funding mechanism in HB797 as both "protection" and a "windfall" for local school systems. It is true that the old HB881 shell game is gone; but, the calculations described in the paragraphs above also prove quite clearly that, while local systems have suffered billions of dollars lost due to the now-infamous "austerity cuts," there seems to be no hesitation on the part of our General Assembly to establish a separate school system which they will gladly fund through a state budget that, for more than ten years, has been unable to support its regular K-12 schools. Larger class sizes, teacher furloughs, and heavily- amended school calendars have been the result of those greatly reduced state dollars in recent years, and that trend appears likely to continue as a result of these kinds of funding decisions. I encourage you to know and be familiar with the fiscal impact of HB797.
–From Maureen Downey, for the AJC Get Schooled blog
August 4th, 2012
1:42 pm
Thank you for posting Mr. Garrett's letter. I wonder if you can get a comment from Gov. Deal?
Gov. Deal told my local state representative that his "yes" vote would never negatively impact the funding in local systems. He assured him that HB797 would have no fiscal impact on local schools.
August 4th, 2012
1:55 pm
Sounds like a lot of doubletalk!
August 4th, 2012
1:57 pm
The intent of conservative republicans has always been and will always be is to gut public education.
August 4th, 2012
2:08 pm
So, if I understand this right, if a system did not approve a charter school, but the special state committee did (back when it was operating), then the state still will pony up big money, perhaps 3 times what it puts into "regular" local schools. Those that local systems approved will continue to get state and local money, as their charter calls for. And, if the measure is passed in November, there is likely to be many more "special state charter schools" which will get this money as well.
I guess that will show us who is in charge here! And I am guessing state income taxes will go up to pay for this, while "regular" public schools continue to wither in the lack-of-funding financial drought.
August 4th, 2012
2:22 pm
The state has cut funding for public schools in Georgia by more than $4 billion in the last 4 years.
There is no magic money to fund these special state charter schools, so of course the money will come out of the same state education funds currently used to fund public schools. Local taxpayers and local property taxes will have to make up the difference to fund the existing public schools!
Voters will decide the fate of Georgia's public schools on November 6. If you care about the public schools in your community and the children who attend them, the answer is simple. Vote NO.
August 4th, 2012
2:27 pm
This should ensure they get the results they want. Create an uneven playing field, continue to criticize traditional public schools, then finally dismantle the entire system. I would be fine with it if the proponents were honest about their objectives. They see traditional public schools as a form of socialism. However, replacing a network of locally-controlled schools funded by taxpayer money with a system of state-controlled schools funded by taxpayer money is just more of the same.
August 4th, 2012
2:32 pm
Can the local school systems pull together to sue the state for not adhering to, both, the state constitution and the QBE formula?
August 4th, 2012
2:33 pm
Chip Rogers, a cheerleader for charter schools, sent his brother Jon to fill in for him at a local debate at Macedonia Elementary, sponsored by the PTA. While plugging for his brother on an issue of concern to public school parents, Jon stated that the charter school would actually be great for the public schools because it would mean public schools would receive more funding. The interesting thing is that Jon Rogers is the Communications Director for Race To The Top, the new PUBLIC education mandate approved in GA. So here you have someone appointed to speak about a public school program telling a big fat lie to concerned public school parents and voters. What's he doing in a position representing a government funded program ONLY imposed on public schools, stumping for charter schools during a campaign debate??? It's unethical and a conflict of interest, but hey, his brother got him the job so I guess we know where his mis-placed loyalties lie. Jon needs to find a new job, we need to stop the siphoning of funds from the public schools.
August 4th, 2012
2:35 pm
Oh, and should I also remind all of you how "outdated" our state constitution is? And I quote, yet again, "Georgia's citizens shall have the right to an adequate education." ADEQUATE! I would really stop referencing our constitution, people.
August 4th, 2012
2:37 pm
The law that will govern state charters if passed is very, very clear about what can and cannot be deducted from local systems. State charters CANNOT reduce district state funding that is otherwise due to them. HERE IS WHAT THE LAW SAYS VERBATIM:
"No deduction shall be made to any state funding which a local school system is otherwise authorized to receive pursuant to this chapter as a direct result or consequence of the enrollment in a state charter school of a specific student or students who reside in the geographical area of the local school system." And keep in mind that local funds will ALSO be retained by local districts (who will be serving less kids).
I sure hope the public wakes up and realizes that the local school districts (and their cronies planted in key places by the Superintendent's Assn. and Georgia School Boards Assn.) have every reason to fight this amendment. They will, at all costs (including, obviously, lie to the public) protect the status quo and the little fiefdoms they have created.
If we want public education to improve for our children and the teachers serving them, then we MUST have the political will to DEMAND that our local public servants be accountable to their constituency. We can't sit back and allow lies to be perpetuated (such as what Herb has published) – it does a disservice to our children…
So please, check the facts your self and don't believe everything you hear.
Here are links to HR 1162 re: the Constitutional Amendment and to HB 797:
This amendment will clarify the state's role and will provide a checks and balances for local school districts (where a natural conflict of interest exists since they are authorizing charter schools in their own districts). If districts play fair ball, why would they ever worry about an appeal? Think about that.
It always comes down to power and money with bureaucratic systems.
August 4th, 2012
2:40 pm
1. Why isn't the Superitendent named?
2. What is the job of Herb Garrett … To protect school districts, not children!
3. The calculations above show that state charter school students will, under HB797, receive less in total dollars than any child in any district in the state. The state has allocated additional "STATE DOLLARS" not local dollars, to make sure the students are funded somewhat comparably to traditional public school students.
4. Herb seems to forget that parents are freely choosing to attend PUBLIC charter schools because they are, for some reason, not satisfied with what is being offered by the district. At what point will Herb start looking at what is best for children. Children are not, as he insinuates, simplly dollar figures in the giant district machine.
August 4th, 2012
2:57 pm
While the district schools' funding is not supposed to be cut to fund charters, can anyone here see a way that will play out as promised? If austerity cuts and other reductions apply to disctricts but not to charters, that is the opposite of what we've been told. and of course there will be more cuts coming, in order to maintain the funding level required by this ill-conceived legislation.
August 4th, 2012
2:59 pm
There was no doubt from the outset that the governor and legislature wanted to create preferential funding for charter schools. Thanks go to Herb Garrett for sending out this notice with real and accurate numbers that tell the extent of that funding.
For the state to so blatantly thumb their nose at the existing public schools with these funding estimates is astonishing, though. They are adding insult to injury. For nearly 10 years our school budgets have endured so-called austerity cuts, and these cuts have completely eviscerated our schools' abilities to meet students' needs. We have cut teacher pay, the number of school days for students, programs for kids, and other essential services. To see they are willing to put 2.5 times the funding to go to charter schools speaks loud and clear about where they are placing their priorities.
Voters must realize this means their schools will continue to endure deep cuts to funding while the charter schools will get preferential treatment. For those of us in areas with good public schools, we will, in effect, lose funding so the state charter schools can get 2.5 times more per pupil! Prepare to vote no on November 6.
August 4th, 2012
3:01 pm
I'm wondering, Charterstarter2, if the way around the "no deduction" is that this "extra money" is not a deduction for the traditional public schools, but an ENHANCEMENT for the special charter schools.
The state used to participate in a program called Student Incentive Grants. This was a program targeting poor students in postsecondary education, in which the state provided a small amount and the federal government provided a much larger "match." However, when HOPE got going, Georgia quit funding their small part of this, and thus lost the federal money. The fact that this money went to the poor and HOPE goes predominately to the middle and upper class students (because they make the grades in greater numbers) had NOTHING to do with it. Georgia has argued that it still is spending much money on financial aid–that the HOPE hasn't "hurt" anyone. Uh huh. I mention this because it seems a similar idea–the state is still giving the traditional public schools their little bit; they are just "finding" additional monies to enhance the pot for the state special charter schools.
August 4th, 2012
3:02 pm
Chip Rogers stated at one of his Town Hall Meetings: "There is only so much money in the pie . . .the state cannot print money." If 1162 passes, there will still only be so much money in the pie, and the money for all of the "special" charter schools will have to come from the pie. No one really believes that it will come out of the transportation budget, do they? Not likely. Our state legislators will continue to chip away at public schools, and the children in the state of Georgia will be the losers.
August 4th, 2012
3:04 pm
Ms. Downey, couldn't this be put on the front page of the online paper? I mean, it is pretty important!
August 4th, 2012
3:07 pm
A couple of points:
1) This blog functions more as platform for airing the anti-reform, anti-parental choice views of the teachers' unions—than it does as a legitimate debate forum.
2) Traditional public schools AREN'T meeting the expectations of vast segments of the public. You otherwise wouldn't see growing pressure for reform.
3) Charter schools ARE public schools, and will continue to employ professional teachers. Yet so many critics of parental choice would have readers infer the opposite.
August 4th, 2012
3:12 pm
Charter Starter Too – your remarks are most disingenuous are reflect the extent to which the charter supporters are willing to lie and obfuscate the issues. It is clear that you and others like you will try to leverage the use of broad and meaningless remarks like "status quo" as code words that paint public school educators in a negative light.
Please explain why you think it is okay for the state to fund charter schools at 2.5 times the rate of local public schools? At a time when the state cannot fully fund the public schools according to already established law, it seems quite clear that there will, in fact, be preferred funding for charter schools. What makes a student in a charter school eligible for such a drastic increase in funding?
I agree with you on one point – I hope our voters are able to read through the lies and misrepresentations that will be used in the campaign regarding this amendment. They need to know that their tax dollars will be taken away from their local public schools and given to special charter schools at 2.5 times the rate.
August 4th, 2012
3:22 pm
A few things…
I'd like to clarify 2 points: I encourage you to check for yourself – I will never state anything here that you cannot verify for yourself.
Charters receive the same austerity cuts as traditional districts/schools receive. Go here and look at the allotment sheets: http://app3.doe.k12.ga.us/ows-bin/owa/qbe_reports.public_menu?p_fy=2000.
For example, Cherokee Charter Academy (a prior Commission school) receives austerity cuts this year in the amount of $479,787. The locally approved charters will have a proportionate share of austerity deducted from the funds their district sends.
So how will state charters be funded? Follow this, and I think you will see that there is NO WAY POSSIBLE they can be funded more than districts…
1. Regular QBE funds they earn based on FTE (same as district)
2. Categorical grant and facilities funds they earn based on FTE (same as district)
3. Federal funds they earn based on FTE and programmatic eligibility (same as district)
4. State supplement calculated as the average of the LOWEST 5 districts' local FTE funding. (That means 99.97% of the districts' local funding is HIGHER than the state charters' supplement).
I am just asking you to use reasoning and to read what the law says. I think you will see that what is being claimed is impossible.
The districts have a dog in this fight and every reason in the world to spread inaccurate information. The charters would RATHER go through their local districts – there are more services and clearly, from above, more funds to support their programs.
I ask you again – if the districts fairly authorize charter schools, then an appeals body should only be a "checks and balances." Why are they so afraid of an objective body appointed by publicly elected officials to check their work?
The only reason I would worry if I was them is if I was not doing what is right…
August 4th, 2012
3:25 pm
Maureen, thank you for continuing to shine the spotlight on the shameful actions you describe. Most legislators are too dumb to understand what is happening but their leaders, despite the statement of Sen. Millar, are quite smart and know exactly what they are doing.
August 4th, 2012
3:45 pm
status quo (kwəʊ)
— n
the status quo the existing state of affairs
The districts like the "state of affairs" as they are…and yet, our children are failing and our teachers are unsupported and continually do not receive the resources needed to do their jobs. I don't hammer public school educators – it's not their fault. This "fight" I'm in is FOR them and the children they serve.
The whole concept of charters is to influence decision makers at the district office and on their boards to rethink how they do business – including supporting parents' voice in education and governance at the school level, teacher autonomy in their own classrooms, and better fiscal stewardship. AND ACCOUNTABILITY. It drives me bananas to hear people fussing about money being "taken" away ….we are tossing good money after bad in many, many districts in our state. It is not for lack of money our children aren't learning and our teachers can't teach – it is for lack of WILL at the district level to spend prudently, to encourage innovation (that may not fit every school), and to honor the professionalism of our educators.
The state cuts have been painful, no doubt. But I double dog dare any one of you to dig into the district budgets, subtract out the state funds and see where the districts are spending their dollars…it's not in the classrooms. Have you attended district board meetings to hear how decisions are made that impact our children and our teachers, principals, and support staff? District board members are paid for their service…superintendents are making a pretty penny ($200k – 400+). Charter board members volunteer – and that in a nutshell is the difference. Charters work in SERVICE to the communities they serve. They stay hungry because their doors staying open is directly linked to student achievement and fiscal stewardship. It's a mindset.
Newton said that with inertia – anything at rest tends to stay at rest. Without a catalyst, nothing will change. Charters are providing a catalyst.
Ask hard questions (thank you Catlady!) Check your facts. I am not obfuscating anything, which is why I gave you the links. I don't have to lie – the facts speak for themselves.
August 4th, 2012
3:49 pm
CharterStarter – what you fail to address is the simple question. Why should charter schools be funded at the higher rates than local schools? This question gets at the heart of the underlying preferential funding plan for state charter schools. Our public schools are not being funded adequately and there is no intention from our state leaders to do anything about that fact. The citizens who have quality public schools need to understand why money will not be provided to their kids' schools, but state charter schools will be funded at much higher rates.
August 4th, 2012
3:50 pm
This surprises anyone? Really?
August 4th, 2012
3:51 pm
Maureen, as I've said above and is referenced in 797, IF the DOE is calculating things correctly, then this is impossible.
Rather than just publish what they SAY, why not ask them to SHOW you their calculations of a state chartered special school beside their traditional district along with the source of their numbers. Go line item by line item what the charter vs. the traditional school district earns through all funding streams and then divide it out per pupil.
August 4th, 2012
3:51 pm
1. Don't assume that any single legislator understood these numbers when writing / voting on the bill. Part of the merit of a transparent and open system is that your opponents quickly jump on your dumb mistakes and keep you from doing stupid things. Here in Georgia, by contrast, the secrecy and lack of opposition make it easy for gross errors to find their way into law. (Would the TSPLOST vote have been such a disaster if the process had really been open and responsive?)
2. Don't assume that legislators are engaged enough to know just how disparate the public education financial situation really is. If there really is a problem, why, that would be their fault, wouldn't it? So I imagine the rose-colored glasses industry does a lot of business at the Capitol.
3. Do state charter schools still need to first have their applications rejected by local systems? Hah! Can you imagine what applications to local boards will look like now? Please please please reject us, oh pretty please. Did we mention that we're all registered sex offenders and / or foreigners? Being approved locally would be a financial disas
August 4th, 2012
3:57 pm
No cuts to local schools? Where does the new money come from? the state budget must be balanced by law. Tax increase, anyone? No? Well then, something else will have to be cut. Guess which something.
August 4th, 2012
4:03 pm
Tony, and what you fail to consider is:
1. The law PROHIBITS state chartered special schools from being funded above the district schools.
Charters don't want to be funded higher – we'd settle for even close to parity. As I have said in prior posts, a Ball State University Study found charters to earn .74 for every dollar districts earn.
2. You assume that districts aren't funded adequately, where in point of fact, districts earn anywhere from about 25% – 70% (give or take) in state funds, depending on the wealth of their district and local funds collected. For example, APS earns less than 25% from the state – most of their funds are local funds, so the austerity reductions at the state level mean a whole lot less than our little rural districts. So "adequacy" in state funds varies widely across the state. With or without the charters, we have a parity issue within public education. The charters suffer along with the rural districts when state cuts hit.
The REAL questions to ask are what is "adequate" to fund a quality education. I'd be careful how you answer since we have state charters living off $4500-$5500 per pupil (serving a comparable student population) knocking the socks off the MUCH higher funded districts ($10,000 – $13,000 per pupil).
The second REAL question to ask is if your district is spending the pot of money they DO have prudently. Again – go do some research.
Aside from my views on chartering, I think the state needs to deal with our QBE formula inequities and ensure that students in smaller districts/schools do not receive inadequate resources to support a quality education. So rural districts, we're fighting the fight right along side you!
August 4th, 2012
4:05 pm
As I remember, the gov did say the money would be found somewhere to keep the state-approved charters running w/o local money. Guess this is it. Perhaps they DO have a way to print money, after all. And apparently there is a gap between what the state DOE understands and what CS2 understands–any explanation?
Could someone publish the names of those voting for HB797? We might want to get their explanations, after the governor's.
August 4th, 2012
4:10 pm
Cardoza promised to get with DOE experts over the weekend and get back to me.
Whatever happened to the seemingly VERY legitimate concerns that an English teacher expressed on this blog about the INSANE amount of time implementing new writing standards would require of teachers (by her calculations TWENTY EIGHT working days just do a single aspect of grading writing)
Matt the Mouth Organ was supposed to comment on that too. Accountability for teachers? Sure, fine. Accountability TO teachers to answer fair and legitimate questions. Apparently not so much for Matt the Mouth Organ and DOE.
August 4th, 2012
4:15 pm
CS2, Your point #1 above–if charter schools are getting just funding from the state, and for regular schools they get state+local monies, it would meet that criteria. That is, if state sends Special State Charter school $7000 per student and the regular school $4000 per student, but the regular school also gets local funds of 6000 per student, the special state charter schools would be getting less than the "regular" public school per student. And I am guessing any extra money via grants would not count "against" the SSCS as far as meeting this requirement.
August 4th, 2012
4:16 pm
Happy St. Pats – the charters DO have to go to districts first, and they MAY NOT change their applications… Go here and see page 14 which states that charters must submit an IDENTICAL petition to the state. http://archives.gadoe.org/DMGetDocument.aspx/Charter%20Schools%20Petition%20Process%20Guidelines.pdf?p=6CC6799F8C1371F655A02F38AF9C4E4CCBE9FC6FF1C3017D97AC46A9255A65B0&Type=D
Secondly, funds required to support state chartered special schools is 0.00044984% of the whole state budget. Really- 4 ten thousandths of a percent. The law prohibits funds from being deducted from the local districts, but yes…somewhere in the state budget 0.00044984% will have to be cut and invested in schools that ARE IMPROVING EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES. Seems like a good investment to me.
August 4th, 2012
4:19 pm
Not to put too fine a point on it in regard to Mr. Garrett, but when one of your own is at THE very heart and soul of THE largest cheating scandal in United States educational history and your organization stands by and fiddles its thumbs perhaps you lose a bit of credibility when you claim to advocate "for the children."
Then again, maybe I'm wrong and Garrett and company did indeed call for Hall's resignation; is that not the LEAST of what they should have done, if they wanted to maintain a voice of moral authority on other educational issues, such as the one highlighted today?
August 4th, 2012
4:22 pm
Catlady – you're almost there…. so let's take, for example, APS vs. a state chartered special school…
BOTH earn their QBE funding based on their student population.
BOTH earn the categorical and facilities funding based on FTE.
BOTH earn federal funds based on FTE and prog. eligibility.
APS earns in local funds 9,149.26 (here: http://app3.doe.k12.ga.us/ows-bin/owa/fin_pack_revenue.display_proc), while the charters will earn a state supplement (to address not earning local funds) equal to the AVERAGE of the lowest 5 districts (Pelham, Trion, Atkinson, Brantly, Jeff Davis counties), or about $1,100 per pupil.
August 4th, 2012
4:24 pm
Maureen, don't your readers deserve to know the names of the rural superintendent and the DOE spokesperson? Is there any reason to shield their names from the public? I woul like to know because it provides legitimacy to one side or the other.
August 4th, 2012
4:24 pm
Beverly Fraud, I think I love you.
August 4th, 2012
4:28 pm
Maureen, I appreciate your reply… I am just wondering why you didn't ask them for the substantiation before you published it as "fact." That seems a bit unfair to both sides of the issue.
August 4th, 2012
4:36 pm
Maureen, you might also consider where Herb's original number came from….
The answer to that is the DOE (why don't you ask Herb his source?) So basically, you asked the state if the number they originally produced is right. What do you think they will say?
August 4th, 2012
4:46 pm
Yes, Maureen, that is absolutely unequivocally what I am saying. Mr. Garrett himself made a mistake…is it inconceivable to believe that folks sitting in a finance department can't make an error?
The DOE is adding in funds the charters earn per FTE (like districts) and lumping that amount with the supplement which is solely to offer loss of local funding.
You can see how faulty their statement is when you take the per pupil (just a regular ed. kid) amount of funding comparison between a state charter and traditional district pupil. All of this being published is out of context. That is why I want someone to lay out the law and lay out their calculation and rationale so that you can SEE it makes not sense.
August 4th, 2012
4:55 pm
The implication you (and Herb) are making is that traditional school students receive MORE funding to educate their kids. The only "more" is the average of the lowest 5 districts' per pupil (about $1100 per pupil). That was very clear when the law was passed. The funds appropriated were made public….that's all there is that can go to the charters.
When you take all funding streams per pupil and compare, side by side, the state chartered special schools and district schools, charter earn MUCH less per pupil (the disparity would be even greater without the supplement). Isn't that what we are talking about? Adequate funds to serve our public school students?
I might add that equalization is no different – it provides a supplement for districts (almost always rural) who cannot raise adequate local funds. So in fact, districts earning equalization funding get "more" from the state than districts who do not earn it. When you look at the per pupil bottom line though, the rural districts are still funded less than urban schools. That is the same case for charters and traditional schools.
August 4th, 2012
4:58 pm
Can someone enlighten me as to why we don't get a vote on this?
This formula is wrong, no matter how you slice it, and most people (if they are capable of figuring out what it really means) would be up in arms. It seems to be an attempt (probably a futile one) to ensure that charters perform better than traditional public schools. What makes it worse is that Georgia schools are not even being funded at the state constitutionally mandated levels. Districts need to band together and sue to get the money they are legally supposed to have received…retroactively and with interest.
Again, I ask charter supporters to answer these questions:
1.) If charter schools are better because they are allowed to operate outside of certain rules, regulations, or red tape, why not simply remove those rules, regulations, and red tape from traditional public schools?
2.) Who is holding these schools accountable? For every successful charter, there are an equal (or higher) number of abject failures (for example, Imagine Mableton).
3.) Why do you feel it is fine and dandy to segregate schools…because that is what it is, though not necessarily along racial lines? Creating a special school for X group that excludes (either through application, lottery, or lack of transportation or Special Education services) A, B, & C students is a segregated school and that is wrong.
I understand wanting the best for your child(ren). I get wanting choices. But, really, you do have options–plenty of them: private school (there are scholarships), parochial school (again, scholarships), homeschooling, moving to a school zone or district that you find more palatable, or getting involved and making change from within.
August 4th, 2012
4:58 pm
CS2, based on your own words, it sounds to me that you should be writing to Senator Millar and demanding he cut the per pupil state funding of charter schools to the public school student funding level. Your argument about local tax funding of public schools needing to be offset by increased funding for state chartered schools seems to me to be an admission by you that there is a great disparity in state funding for traditional public schools. Local taxpayers elect their local board of education to decide how to spend their local funds on traditional public schools, not on state chartered schools. You, as I understand it, don't want local boards of education to have any oversight over your state chartered school. Fine, but why do you then expect the state to fund you more than the public schools, especially in light of the draconian cuts which have been imposed on local public systems? You want special treatment and that is wrong.
August 4th, 2012
5:13 pm
Before Herb Garrett takes another organization into account, perhaps he should take his OWN organization into account.
Herb Garrett, your organization named Beverly Hall the 2009 Georgia Superintendent of the Year. Knowing what you know now, have you RESCINDED the award?
And if not, where is your moral authority to comment on ANYTHING regarding the best interests of children in Georgia?
August 4th, 2012
5:20 pm
> I apologize for the error.
Herb, you might be a bit more believable if you apologized for not RESCINDING Beverly Hall's award.
If you can't do that how can we trust your integrity? After all, by not rescinding the award, have you not given TACIT APPROVAL to cheating? (Heck even the Penn State folks had the decency to remove Joe Paterno's statue since not unlike Hall he "knew or should have known" and he was around DECADES longer than Hall.)


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HAd 1 of the first set of cadillac wheels for skateboards invented the mountain bike in 72 only person and will be the only person to ride up a 30 ft wave from shore with a skimboard on a shorebreaker wave my football coach was the commader in rambo started playing piano at 7 got to play in front of a crowd of 5000 when i was 15 playing david bowie favorite love locals..on a couch on a cliff looking over malibu beach,,,underwater..on the sand..on a train..on the snow..on a trail looking over a bay in seattle ..on 2nd base on a baseball field :]:]:]:]:]:]:] favorite color blue favorite number 7 went to alot of concerts here my little list :] :] :] led zepplin with john bonham page had this 4 ft bar on a tripod he would grab sound from the bar with his hands then then point his hands in your dirrection and i swear you would feel sound smack you right across your face i swear , the who with kieth moon, pink floyd.......... played the album dark side of the moon ..rod stewert with ron 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mercedes hit a truck head on at the light the mercedes went flying at least 5 stories high and landed a distance of a whole block when i got to the end of the bridge there were over 15 squad cars with yellow tape already up in 1 minute i somehow drove right thru everything and went home the next day no news reports no hospital entrys HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM ,the mountain you see at the begginning of the tv series MASH when the helicopter is flying i saved someones life on that mountain he slipped and i grabbed his packpack before he fell of a cliff , swam the snake river ,,chased a tornado, jumped off a 20 story mountain into a river...went off a cliff in a monte carlo going 90 if we would of went 1 ft to the left we would of gone thru a house instead we climbed up a tree with 1 wheel on the ground been in every state in the union,canada south america ,iceland france ,germany,holland,ireland .check .body surfing i use to wait for this 1 tidal wave 50 or 60 footer it comes in like at end of a 5 or 7 sets of waves miracle wave ..well i would go up to the wave and let it suck me up to the very top so i would be like floating 70 ft in the air like superman with with 7 trillion lbs of water on my back and when wave is getting ready to tube and grab me and crush me i would smack my head against the lip[top] and that second i would hear the whole sound of the tube of half mile long wave and i would see so many colors and id pull out of the wave and the wave would break in front of me thats the 1st time i saw god its love got 100s of other stories another time now i just write music ,,promote my fountain of youth diet..my dad was a assistant to howard hughes. 1st early computer programmer desighned our defence system norad and star wars ,worked in a top secret satilite station during vietnam war in thailand .. got a call in 1968 during the cuban missle crisis a car was going to come by and bring us to a underground bunker in the rocky mountains his last assignment saudia arabia in 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Australia's biodiversity: an overview of selected significant components
Biodiversity series, Paper no. 2
Biodiversity Unit
Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories, 1994
2. National elements of significance – an overview
As a result of the evolutionary process, the Australian flora and fauna is distinct in many ways from that found elsewhere. Long isolation has led to the evolution of many animals and plants found only in Australia (i.e. endemic species) and its stability has allowed the survival of many ancient and relict species. Also Australia's climate and landscape variability have fostered the development of a biota with many adaptations to local conditions – and these species have interacted in unique ways, to form diverse communities. These conditions have allowed the evolution of several highly speciose groups, such as eucalypts and ants.
Although many endemic genera and species are to be expected on a large island continent, levels of endemism in Australia are notably high. Compared with other countries, Australia not only has a large number of endemic species, but these also form a high percentage of the total 181 (see Figure 2). From what is presently known, 85 per cent of flowering plant species 50, about 82 per cent of mammal species excluding whales 149 48 212 215 and 89 per cent of reptile species are endemic to Australia 25.
While endemic species and genera are remarkable from a biological point of view, endemic families are even more important. It is of great significance, therefore, that endemism occurs at the taxonomic level of family in Australia, with six mammal, about four bird, eight fish, and 14 families of flowering plants endemic to Australia as well as numerous families of invertebrates 215 214 114 11 190.
Species richness
Australia's plants and animals are among the most diverse in the world and some areas have globally outstanding species richness, such as the Great Barrier Reef, the rainforests of north Queensland and the South West Botanical Province of Western Australia.
Also, it is found that when Australian groups of plants and animals are compared with their counterparts in the rest of the world, several are notable for the numbers of species they include. For instance, Australia has many vascular plant species, and is particularly well known for its orchids. In addition, it is one of the most lichen-rich countries in the world 137 181. Marsupials are diverse and numerically abundant and Australia's reptile fauna is also significantly large. Several invertebrate groups also contain many species. For example the ant and cockroach faunas comprise 15 per cent and 12 per cent of the global faunas respectively 109 181.
Ancient and relict species and communities
The geological stability of the Australian landmass has resulted in the ability to trace the origins of some organisms living in Australia today back to extremely ancient times. For example, Australia has outstanding examples of stromatolites, structures formed by microbial mats of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) and other microorganisms. The oldest known stromatolites are about 3500 million-year-old fossils and were discovered near the mining centre of North Pole in the Pilbara, Western Australia. Actively growing stromatolites can be found at Shark Bay, Western Australia, where one type of cyanobacterium, widespread in the microbial mats, is thought to be a direct descendant of forms that flourished 1900 million years ago. It represents one of the longest continual biological lineages known 19.
Australia has many examples of lineages that have survived since Pangaean and Gondwanan times. These often provide a living history of the groups to which they belong, and give clues to the evolution of many other extant (that is, still existing) species and groups. Such animals and plants, which can be seen as 'living fossils', are evidence of our past biotic links with other continents and countries and give vital information on past climates. By increasing our understanding of evolutionary processes, they also help us to identify groups and regions important for contemporary evolutionary change.
The ancient lineages of many groups are reflected in their current distributions. Organisms that are of Pangaean origin typically possess primitive features and have a globally disjunct distribution as noted in Section 1. Many extant plants and animals with Gondwanan origins have distributions reflecting their centres of origin and the state of fragmentation of the Gondwanan landmass. The ratite birds, which include the emu and ostrich, are believed to have Gondwanan origins as they are found on most southern continents, including Africa, Australia and South America 140. Acacias and the Proteaceae are also probably of Gondwanan origin, with a wide distribution on southern continents occurring (mainly) in India, Africa, Madagascar, Australasia and South America 171. Species of Nothofagus (southern beeches) however, are absent from Africa 171, and fossils of this genus have never been found there 201. The less cosmopolitan distribution of Nothofagus indicates that it may have evolved later, as Gondwana was fragmenting.
A further distinction can be made between extant organisms with links to ancient ancestors and those that have remained relatively unchanged from a previous age, often in biogeographically isolated areas (i.e. relict species). Examples include the blind trapdoor spider Troglodiplura lowryi from caves in the Nullarbor Plain and the conifer Microstrobos fitzgeraldii which is found at a few sites in the Blue Mountains (NSW). The only other member of the Microstrobos genus is found in Tasmania. The palm Livistona mariae, another relict species, occurs in gorges in the Macdonnell Ranges in the Northern Territory, and is a survivor of times when moist conditions prevailed more generally 52.
Distinctive Australian adaptations
Adaptations to Australian environments have often occurred over long periods and adaptive radiations have resulted in surviving species often being distinctive. The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is perhaps the most well known example, but is joined by other species such as the marsupial moles (Notoryctes typhlops and N. caurinus), the blind gudgeon (Milyeringa veritas), the possibly extinct Lord Howe Island stick insect (Dryococelus australis) and the Queensland bottle tree (Brachychiton rupestris).
While many species possess unique combinations of adaptive features, some adaptations and ecological features can be regarded as typical of the Australian environment. These include sclerophylly and adaptations to frequent fire, aridity, an often unpredictable climate, high levels of salinity, low and patchy levels of soil nutrients, and variable hydrology.
Many Australian plants have leathery, hard, spiny or reduced leaves and relatively short internodes. These characteristics are known as sclerophylly and are believed to be adaptations to impoverished soils. Sclerophyllous characteristics are strongly represented in Australian Myrtaceae (including tea-trees and eucalypts), Proteaceae (grevilleas, hakeas, banksias, waratahs and relatives), Epacridaceae (heaths), and Mimosaceae (mainly acacias) 9.
Sclerophylly, while primarily an evolutionary response to poor soils, may have preadapted many Australian plants to drier conditions, such as occur in Mediterranean climates. It is thought that because of the generally weathered and infertile nature of Australian soils, sclerophylly has become progressively more widespread to an extent not matched on other continents 9.
Fire is an integral component of most Australian ecosystems and habitats. It is a natural environmental variable and fires occur with different intensities, times of year and frequencies across Australia. It is also a major management tool.
Many plants have adapted to particular fire regimes and a number of species rely primarily on fire to assist development of offspring (i.e. recruitment) such as Eucalyptus regnans 55. In many cases fire can crack resistant seed coats, open fruit held on the parent plant and provide a rich medium for seedling growth. For some species, alteration of such fire regimes can threaten their viability. The reduced occurrence of fire has contributed to two species being considered endangered: Rutidosis leptorhynchoides and Swainsona recta 92.
Salt lakes are a prominent part of the Australian environment and in contrast to other continents, expanses of saline waters in Australia far exceed those of freshwater 102. Some salt lakes such as Lake Corangamite in Victoria are permanent, whereas the majority, including Lakes Eyre, Frome and Torrens in South Australia are temporary and only fill occasionally. While species diversity is generally reduced with increased salt concentrations, the fauna and flora of salt lake communities possess major adaptations that aid survival in such extreme conditions, including rapid life cycles and mechanisms for salt excretion.
Variable hydrology
In addition to the variation in salt concentrations in saline lakes, the level and flow rate of water in Australian freshwater systems is also highly variable 104 (See figure 4). Many inland streams and rivers only flow after unpredictable rains. After rain both the temporary and permanent water courses can flood vast areas and leave transient pools and lakes as they evaporate. Some adaptations, such as fish spawning only after a rise in river levels, are a response to this variability.
Ecological interactions
Australian plants and animals often interact in ways that are not only considered ecologically significant but in many cases are unique to Australia. These ecological interactions often result in co-evolution – that is different taxa evolving together. Many features of flowering plants, for example, can only be understood by observing the way they interact with animals; conversely many vertebrates and invertebrates have features that reflect their close association with plants. Such interactions between plants and animals include: pollination by insects and vertebrates; dispersal of seeds and fruits; the interactions between plants and the animals that feed on them; and plant defences against animal attack.
Refuge value
Australia's wetlands, coasts and islands have great significance as breeding and feeding refuges for migratory and wide-ranging species, some of which, such as Abbott's booby (Papasula abbotti; found on Christmas Island), are rare and endangered. Marine turtles and marine mammals, as well as seabirds, find feeding and breeding grounds along Australia's coastline and there are many Australian wetlands internationally recognised as valuable habitats for migratory birds. The Australian Antarctic Territory and Australia's subantarctic islands are also important for their refuge value and provide nesting sites for millions of seabirds.


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