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Advanced Learning referral window is open until September 22nd.A great story from SPS about a five-decade(!) volunteer, LouAnne Rundall, who worked in the Highland Park Elementary library.
As Rundall explains, two years after beginning her library career as a paid assistant her position was eliminated for budget reasons. Rundall continued to work every day, from morning to afternoon, paid in memories of generations of children she has watched graduate and start careers and families of their own.
On the morning of the first day of school, Highland Park students, families, and staff flooded the school’s gymnasium to honor and surprise Rundall with news the school board would soon vote to rename their library in honor of her. That evening, all six board directors made it official. Now, each time she steps inside for another day of volunteering, she will be walking into the library that, rightfully, bears her name: the LouAnne Rundall Library.New York City has taken the step to provide a free lunch to any student who wants one.
New York City’s public school system set an important national example this week when it made free lunch available to all of its 1.1 million students regardless of income level.
Three quarters of New York City schoolchildren had already qualified for free or reduced-price lunches. The new initiative reaches another 200,000 children, saving their families about $300 a year per child. These additional lunches are not expected to cost the city more money, thanks to the federal Community Eligibility Provision program, under which schools that offer free lunch and breakfast to all children are reimbursed based on students’ poverty level.The New York Magazine this week is their Education issue. I have not read any of these articles yet but plan to do so. I note there is an article about Michigan schools - that's Betsy DeVille's home state. She was busy this week trying to undo protections created under the Obama administration under Title IX. From the Huffington Post:
She did not announce any large policy changes to Title IX other than implying that the 2011 Dear Colleague Letter would be rescinded when she told the crowd “the era of rule by letter” has ended.In advance of the City's ban next year on straws, did you get your reusable freebie from Starbucks? I did.
The Secretary of Education repeatedly discussed the rights of not only survivors of sexual assault, but also those who have been “wrongly accused” of sexual misconduct.
In the past six months DeVos rescinded protections for transgender students and made the investigation process for college sexual assault less transparent, while also threatening to cut resources and funding.
I attended a great conversation last night at Town Hall between writer Sherman Alexie and writer Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snickett) on Handler's new novel, All the Dirty Parts. From Amazon;
All The Dirty Parts is an unblinking take on teenage desire in a culture of unrelenting explicitness and shunted communication, where sex feels like love, but no one knows what love feels like. With short chapters in the style of Jenny Offill or Mary Robison, Daniel Handler gives us a tender, brutal, funny, intoxicating portrait of an age when the lens of sex tilts the world. "There are love stories galore," Cole tells us, "This isn't that. The story I'm typing is all the dirty parts."It was a frank and funny discussion about teens and sexuality. I'll have a thread on that soon.
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