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How important are principals for a school's success — or failure?
Watch the PBS documentary The Principal Story airing Tuesday Sept. 15.
Check the local TV schedule for time and channel.
The Principal Story tells two stories, painting a dramatic portrait of the...
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I was on the East side today with some time to kill so I thought I would check out what's going on at East Hills Mall. I knew that all the anchor tenants had closed, but wow, what a reality check actually seeing the blight. I couldn't help but feel a little nostalgic as I remembered working at...
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Some parents are getting exercised about the idea that students in schools will watch President Obama give a speech on Tuesday about education. There is precendent for a president to give advice to the nation's youth — and for it to be broadcast nationally.
In 1991 former President...
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More on Tuesday's scheduled 9am PST speech to students...
The White House will release the speech 24 hours in advance on Monday:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn....
On the White House rewriting a line in the speech that Republicans thought was more policy than...
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Bakersfield College added 12 new faculty members for the fall 2009 semester:
Many of the new teachers are filling positions that have opened due to retirement or relocation.
BC's first-day enrollment this week was 17,341, and 30 percent increase from the beginning of the decade.
Laura...
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Reposted from Return Magazine
July 22, 2009
Everyday Spirituality: Angels 101
A SHORT COURSE ON THE NATURE AND MINISTRY OF ANGELS
PART ONE
Tina Gilson
Angels are intimately woven into the...
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The Kern High School District has announced it may cut JV sports next year.
At the Monday night board meeting June 22 many concerned parents and teachers spoke about how it would be a mistake to cut JV sports, for a number of reasons.
(JV sports: football, basketball, softball, baseball...
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There is $53 billion in President Obama's stimulus bill that is slated for education, and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and California Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell await their share of the money with great anticipation.
There is apparently a small...
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The Kern High School District needs to leave sports alone. There will be many angry parents and fans (I'm a Centennial fan myself) if sports are cut thanks to Sacramento's problems. It's time we hold our legislature accountable for this, not the student athletes. Many other...
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Officials at Bakersfield College are bracing for a big increase in students for spring semester 2009.
This is not a surprise: Historically, B.C.'s enrollment increases when the economy takes a dive. But B.C. is nearing record levels of students, and that means access to classes — that...
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Welcome to the new Kern Educational Reform Blog. My name is Jeff Locke and I was an English teacher for Kern High last year until the budget cuts forced some changes. I am also a candidate for the KHSD Board of Trustees. Although I am a write-in candidate this year, I will be on the regular...
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Kids Pulled From Transgender Teacher's Class
Travis Unified School District Says It Must Respect Privacy
POSTED: 1:50 pm PDT October 14, 2008
UPDATED: 5:58 pm PDT October 14, 2008
www.kcra.com/cnn-news/17714619/detail.html
VACAVILLE, Calif. -- A...
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Here's a more detailed look at how not having a state-budget could affect Kern County schools:
Schools are bracing for a stoppage of state funding for things like school supplies, special education and student transportation because a state budget has not been...
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I haven't been on Bakersfield.com for a while except for VERY sporadically. It feels good to be back -
Where have I been?
In a nutshell:" I have lived a lot of life, a lot of angst and I think i have come out for the best. I have wondered during the past eighteen...
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For the first time, Bakersfield Christian football coach Doug Barnett is speaking about the practice Patrick Allen participated in two days before he died.
The school and Patrick's parents believe he died from a heat-related illness. The coroner's report is pending toxicology tests.
The...
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A heat-related illness seems to be the most likely cause of Patrick Allen's death.
Allen, who played on Bakersfield Christian High School's football team, died Aug. 16, two days after suffering leg cramps, vomiting and loss of consciousness following practice in 104-degree heat.
(Read...
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I had heard talk about a medical school coming to UC Merced.
But if one local politician has his way, that medical school would reside in Bakersfield, possibly next to Kern Medical Center.
I just spoke to Supervisor Michael Rubio, who said his staff will give UC officials a proposal in early...
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Would you be in favor of tax increases if it meant more money for schools and health care?
A Democrat-controlled Assembly committee approved a new state budget last night based on a $9.7 billion tax increase, the first state budget proposal based on a major tax increase since 1991.
According to...
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Kids with perfect attendance freak me out.
I'm not talking about the kids with one stellar year but rather the ones who don't miss a day of school their entire school career.
Californian columnist Robert Price talked to one of these kids recently. (Read "13 years without missing school?...
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What an interesting story about that one room school in Woody. It looks like those few kids lucky enough to attend will be in good hands with Teacher Sherry Eggleston. It’s too bad they aren’t allowed to use that original schoolhouse for class but had to spring for new portable mods....
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I just read Carlalafong’s blog from February 22. Memories from my own teaching experiences were triggered by the message she related that kids are much “wilder” today. When I started teaching in 1966, I’d say 95% of the children in my class were...
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Here's a press release from the Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce:
Applications for the Chamber's 2009 Leadership Bakersfield program are now available.
Dedicated to promoting and developing dynamic business and community leaders, this unique and versatile Chamber program gives...
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There are academic competitions for nearly every topic, so why not business ethics too?
Three Cal State Bakersfield business students are going to the final round of Loyola Marymount University’s 10th annual National Intercollegiate Business Ethics Competition, according to a CSUB press...
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I want to know what YOU think about the problems California is having with the budget and how it effects education. Many schools are laying off teachers (or proposing it, since it is not "official" at this point), class sizes are going to increase, and many programs are being cut....
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Cal State Bakersfield has a new dean for its School of Business and Public Administration.
John Emery, the former dean of the College of Business Administration at University of Texas – Pan American, was appointed to the post, according to a CSUB news release.
Emery will take the spot...
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Apparently lots of local kids want to be petroleum engineers — or at least their teachers think they should consider it.
For the first time in the history of the local event, the annual Engineers Day event sposnored by The Society of Petroleum Engineers, San Joaquin Valley Section, is so...
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Problems? We have problems?
A group meant to address those problems — housing, air quality, water supply and reliability, transportation and education — meets from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday in Fresno.
They're officially called the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley....
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So it looks like NCLB will get another day in court.
Pontiac (MI) School District et al. v. U.S. Department of Education alleged the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is an “unfunded mandate” and on Jan. 7, 2008, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision against the...
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If you or your kid went to an underperforming school, a dropout factory, and had the chance to get a "Pell Grant for Kids" to go to a private school, would you take it?
That's what Pres. Bush suggested at his curtain-call SOTU address Monday. Low income students whose schools have...
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I have passed the e-PRO Technology Certification Program. It is a course for Real Estate Professionals that teaches them how to use technology, the Web, and yes, BLOGS!!!!
I knew a lot of the stuff already, and found it pretty easy to just whip through it. You take it all online, and the hardest...
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Cal State Bakersfield President Horace Mitchell sent out his monthly campus update Thursday afternoon. Here it is:
President's Monthly Campus Update
January 17, 2008
Vol. 3, No. 1
The Passing of Members of the CSUB Family
In the past two weeks, we have suffered the...
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Here's the latest on apply to CSUB, straight from the university:
NEWS FROM CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, BAKERSFIELD
CSU extends application period for first-time freshmen to March 1
The Office of the Chancellor has amended the original plan of closing all 23 CSU campuses to first-time...
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This press release was issued by Cal State Bakersfield Jan. 17:
CSU Bakersfield names new vice president for university advancement
Beverly Byl, associate vice president of advancement for University of the Pacific, has been named as California State University, Bakersfield’s new...
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MRSA has been given a pretty scary nickname: superbug.
But MRSA — otherwise known as methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, which also doesn't sound too fun — shouldn't keep parents up late at night worrying, state and local officials said today.
Several of these...
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A High School teacher in Mission Viejo, Ca is being sued over an anti-Christian statement he made during a lecture in a class on the development of Europe, of which Christianity was, right or wrong, good or bad, a large part. I say it's about time someone on the non believer side was called on...
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It looks like the Kern High School District board isn't the only one debating freedom of choice in public schools.
The San Diego Unified attorneys are taking a second look at a policy that requires school staff to tell parents and guardians if they learn a teen is pregnant.
Some schools...
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With all the recent controversy over what constitutes racism, I felt this article by Jason Whitlock was timely and right on target. You be the judge.
http://msn.foxsports.com/nf...
Sorry, here's the link.
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"Ahnold" is making Chad Vegas look pretty good right now in my opinion. Say what?! some of you might be thinking.
Remember when comments were made that with all the lagging...
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The headline at the bottom of today's Californian (October 8) on the OpEd page caught my eye. "Powerful teachers revving up to kill education reform" Who were these 'powerful teachers' and what were they going to 'kill'?
As I read the article, I couldn't believe that Ruben...
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I receive numerous publications from various education magazines and journals, as well as many newsletters/publications online. I am constantly reading about the different things that schools are doing across the United States in regards to technology. And with each article that I read I...
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This just in from my friend the teacher, whom I hope now won't go off the deep end, with all her newly-found time...
THE MEANING OF LIFE!
LEARNING WITH SOUL
a guidebook or curriculum is now available...
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NEWSFLASH!!! DATELINE CANADA!!!!!
Canadian Indians theaten to block CN Railroad mainline railroutes in protest of poverty, lack of education opportunity and poor healthcare!
HEY! Wait just a doggone minute! How is this possible? Canada is a socialist society. A Classless society(no pun...
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Walking across the graduation stage for a high school student can bring about thoughts of present status in robe, future endeavors of life and past movements of people.
Different reasons can cause students to think upon one of...
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Have you read this book, TIME ON THE INSIDE: Behind The Walls In A Maximum Security Women’s Prison From An Insiders View ─ FMA Publishing ─ August, 2006? If so let me know what you think. And if not, then you should as I’ve been told from one of my reviewers: “If you want...
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Women's Prisons in the United States have increased in the past 20 years by 800% as there are more than 107,000 women incarcerated in State and Federal institutions where women are most oftened overlooked. The majority of women come from socio and economically distraught backgrounds that draw...
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The red smudge in the center of the blue state of California may be more liberal than you think.
A recent study from the Public Health Institute found that 89 percent of Central Valley parents support comprehensive sex ed (abstinence, condoms and birth control) over an abstinence-only...
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I had a job performance review today. Not from my "real" job which I consider photography and journalism, although those don't completely pay the bills yet. But from my other job...my so-called teaching job.
The review did not go well...I was dinged hard for not...
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teachers, parents, students, and their supporters flooded the education center last night in support of bcsd educators, with numbers of picketers estimated to be upward of 800 ... the superintendent and his clan contend that the union is being unreasonable & that teachers don't want what the...
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An afterschool project, dedicated to the formation of engineering chapters at our local schools, dedicated to Renewable Energy Development in Kern County. We want trade schools in every field related to local industry, and Renewable Energy promises a prosperous future in the High Desert...
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