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Many Principals Remain at Schools Graded ‘F’
Nearly a year after New York City’s first report cards for public schools were issued, the majority of the principals who ran the 52 schools labeled as failing remain in place.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/education/05fschool.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/education/05fschool.html" border="0"/></a></span>
New York Plans to Sue Student Loan Company
The attorney general is preparing a lawsuit against Goal Financial, charging that the lender broke laws by luring borrowers with cash and gifts and that it misled consumers about loan terms.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/business/05loan.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/business/05loan.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Hearing on Columbia Plan Elicits Emotional Speeches
Speakers opposed to the expansion of Columbia University in the western part of Harlem linked the university’s plan with gentrification taking place elsewhere in Harlem.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/nyregion/05harlem.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/nyregion/05harlem.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Panel Backs Leaving Schools Under the Mayor
The panel of education experts recommended that the law be renewed but amended to limit City Hall’s power.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/education/04school.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/education/04school.html" border="0"/></a></span>
$400 Million Gift to Genetic Institute
The gift to the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard was the biggest so far from Eli and Edythe Broad, who are giving away a multibillion-dollar fortune.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/education/05gift.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/education/05gift.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Court Blocks Florida Ballot Measures Intended to Help School Vouchers
Two constitutional amendments intended to help Florida’s school voucher programs withstand legal challenges cannot appear on the November ballot, the State Supreme Court ruled.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/us/04florida.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/us/04florida.html" border="0"/></a></span>
New School Rules on Bias Bullying
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced regulations that are meant to combat bullying in city schools that is based on bias.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/nyregion/04bully.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/nyregion/04bully.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Across the City, Facing the Unknown
Among the one million-plus students and 80,000 teachers who started classes Tuesday at 1,499 schools around New York City, some were attending for the first time.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/education/03first.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/education/03first.html" border="0"/></a></span>
National Briefing | Midwest: Illinois: School Financing Protest
More than 1,000 Chicago public school students boycotted the first day of classes in a protest over school financing and instead rode buses to try to enroll in a wealthy suburban district.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/us/03brfs-SCHOOLFINANC_BRF.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/us/03brfs-SCHOOLFINANC_BRF.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Hard Times Hitting Students and Schools
Record numbers of students turning up for classes this fall are homeless or poor enough to qualify for free meals.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/education/01school.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/education/01school.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Education: Charter Grade School Documents Its Success
One of New Jersey’s first charter schools went looking for some of its first students to see if their early experience at a charter school made a difference.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/31charternj.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/31charternj.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Professor Protests Over Black Admissions at U.C.L.A.
A professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, resigned from an admissions committee, saying he suspected officials were illegally admitting more black students.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/education/31ucla.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/education/31ucla.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Get Pad and Pen: The School Supply List Is Long
Many schools both poor and prosperous are asking parents to purchase more, and more particular, school supplies.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/nyregion/30supplies.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/nyregion/30supplies.html" border="0"/></a></span>
In Texas School, Teachers Carry Books and Guns
A school board in north-central Texas has drawn attention by letting some teachers carry concealed weapons.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/us/29texas.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/us/29texas.html" border="0"/></a></span>
A Georgia School System Loses Its Accreditation
Four school board members were removed for ethics violations from the Atlanta area school system — the nation’s first in nearly 40 years to lose its accreditation.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/education/29clayton.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/education/29clayton.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Purdue, Citing Research Misconduct, Punishes Scientist
An appeals committee at Purdue University has upheld findings of misconduct by Rusi P. Taleyarkhan.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/science/28purdue.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/science/28purdue.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Class of 2008 Matches ’07 on the SAT
The average scores for the three sections of the SAT were identical for the classes of 2007 and 2008: 502 in the critical-reading section, 515 in mathematics, and 494 in writing.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/education/27sat.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/education/27sat.html" border="0"/></a></span>
A Plan to Test the City’s Youngest Pupils
The Bloomberg administration is asking elementary school principals across New York City to give standardized tests in English and math to children as young as kindergarten.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/education/27test.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/education/27test.html" border="0"/></a></span>
10 City Schools to Focus Reading Skills on Content
Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein announced a pilot program that would overhaul the way children in 10 city schools are taught to read.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/education/26core.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/education/26core.html" border="0"/></a></span>
As Food Costs Rise, So Do School Lunch Prices
The price increases, generally about 25 cents a meal, come as school districts in New York and across the country try to eke more out of already tight budgets.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/education/25lunches.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/education/25lunches.html" border="0"/></a></span>
For the Last Presidential Debate, a Nation’s Eyes Will Turn to Hofstra
The debate at Hofstra caps a prolonged effort by the university to have a voice in the nation’s political discourse.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/nyregion/25hofstra.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/nyregion/25hofstra.html" border="0"/></a></span>
A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash
David Campbell is bringing Florida’s mandate to teach evolution to many students raised to take the biblical creation story as fact.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/education/24evolution.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/education/24evolution.html" border="0"/></a></span>
A Promise of Pre-K for All Is Still Far Off in New York
Ten years after the goal was set, fewer than 38 percent of 4-year-olds attend state-financed classes.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/education/23prek.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/education/23prek.html" border="0"/></a></span>
2 Withdraw From Petition to Rethink Drinking Age
Gains outweighed the losses in the effort by college presidents to lower the drinking age, as 15 more signed on, for a total of 123.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/us/22drinking.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/us/22drinking.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Welcome, Freshmen. Have an iPod.
Taking a step that professors may view as a bit counterproductive, some universities are doling out Apple iPhones and Internet-capable iPods to students.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/technology/21iphone.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/technology/21iphone.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Mixed Results on Paying City Students to Pass Tests
A program offering up to $1,000 for scoring well on Advanced Placement exams yielded relatively flat results, adding fuel to the debate over how to motivate students.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/education/20cash.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/education/20cash.html" border="0"/></a></span>
A Teachable Moment
Hurricane Katrina wiped out the New Orleans public schools. It also created a rare chance to build a system that might solve the biggest problem in urban education -- how to teach disadvantaged children.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/magazine/17NewOrleans-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/magazine/17NewOrleans-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Essay: At School, Technology Starts to Turn a Corner
As a new school year begins, the time may have come to reconsider how large a role technology can play in changing education.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/technology/17essay.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=58051f3112d7419abc417309b51d7fc3&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/technology/17essay.html" border="0"/></a></span>
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Welcome Parents, Neighbors, Elected Officials, and Fellow Educators to
Littlestown Education Association’s Home Page!
We have information to share, and we welcome your comments.
L.E.A.: Who are we?
We are 143 education professionals in the Littlestown Area School District: teachers at Littlestown High School, Maple Avenue Middle, Alloway Creek Intermediate, and Rolling Acres Elementary. We belong to the Littlestown Local of the Pennsylvania State Education Association – P.S.E.A. – and the National Education Association – NEA.
The L.E.A.’s elected leadership for 2007-2008:
Tina Motts, President, a First Grade teacher at Rolling Acres;
Diane Bair, Vice President, R.A. Third Grade teacher;
Jenn Yutzy, President-Elect, Junior English teacher & soccer coach;
Dana Nelson, Secretary, Maple Avenue Sixth Grade Math Teacher;
Carol Greene, Treasurer, Rolling Acres Physical Education teacher.
Our Building Representatives:
Myfanie Baker and Carleen Russell, Rolling Acres Elementary;
Rachael Wire, Alloway Creek Intermediate;
Kit Curlen and Doug Francis, Maple Avenue Middle School;
Kathy Benoski, Littlestown High School.
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The Littlestown Education Association is proud to collaborate with our friends and colleagues of the Littlestown Association of Educational Support Personnel: – the cafeteria workers, bus drivers, secretaries, and paraprofessionals who work alongside us every day to ensure the health and safety of the students.
Lori Frymyer, High School Secretary, L.H.S. '89 graduate, is President of L.A.E.S.P., and Bus Driver Vickie Rinehart, is Vice President. Luann Potter is Secretary and Christopher Brown is Treasurer.
The L.A.E.S.P. is involved in collective bargaining to negotiate a fair and equitable contract for Littlestown’s support personnel.
We are L.E.A. and L.A.E.S.P. We care about the children in Littlestown.
LEA WELCOMES OUR NEWCOMERS!
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