Welcome to the New Heights Show on Education. This is your host, Pamela Clark, and you're listening to an episode of Education in the News. As usual, we have a lot of news stories from all over the world, so we're going to get right into it. So we have some legislative alerts that just came out November 28th, and I'll go ahead and read those to you.
So there's a Ohio legislation positioned to move all major duties of the State Board of Education to an unelected appointee of the Governor. Ohio Legislative Alert from Melanie Elsie, Legislative Liaison for Chio, Christian Home Educators of Ohio. Ohio legislation's position to move all major duties of the State Board of Education to an unelected appointee of the Governor. This will affect all school-aged children, public, private and home educated.
Senate Bill 178, sponsor, it was Senator Bill Reineke, and it was introduced actually May 11th, 2021. The bill 178, there's a link. You could go on Chio and see if you can find this legislative information, but it says, this has been setting dormant in the Ohio Senate Primary and Secondary Education Committee since its introduction last year. It now appears there will be an effort to push it through the legislative process before the end of the season.
The bill will move all of the major policy decisions of our partially elected State Board of Education to a new, not-elected cabinet agency under the sole authority of the Governor, and will remove all elected representation on all regulations affecting public schools, private schools and home education. This bill is identified in concept to the 2018 bill, HB 512, which did not pass due to the substantial public outcry. What makes the process more challenging today is there is no language available to the public for review of SB 178. The only available version of the bill at the writing of this alert is a one-page placeholder version on expressing non-specific intent, similar legislation, and 2018, the HB 512, was over 2,000 pages in length.
The only clues we have to the policies being proposed are in the sponsor's testimony offered to the Senate Education Committee on November 15th, 2022. As described by Senator Reineke in a testimony, SB 178 would do the following. One, it would create a State Cabinet-level agency called the Department of Education and Workforce that would have a dual focus on primary and secondary education, including preschool and career tech. This new, unelected agency, DEW, would be led by a director appointed by the Governor.
Two, the DEW would have two divisions, both headed by Deputy Directors who will set on the Governor's Executive Workforce Board. One would be the Division of Primary and Secondary Education, and the second would be the Division of Career Technical Education. The due will be responsible for enforcing existing regulations and adopting new regulations. All duties of the State Board of Education, except enforcing teaching licensure, the disposition of cases involving teacher and staff misconduct, and school district territory transfers will be shifted to this new DEW agency.
There are two proponent hearings scheduled for SB 178 this week, linked below, that will be monitoring for additional information. Scheduled hearings this week will be listed under those links if you can find them on their site. I will post this on our social media though, so you can find it on there as well. Okay, immediate action needed.
They'd like you to make phone calls and emails. Please contact your State Senator and members of the Senate Education Committee to request that this shift of authority not be supported. Please, respectively, express in your own words your points of concern. The SB 178 takes away elected representation on policies affecting all of Ohio students and their families.
The State Board of Education was amended into the Ohio Constitution in 1953. It is not even conceivable that voters intended for this board to be stripped of almost all of its authority and only left with disciplining teachers and territory transfers. Number three, Ohio has students whose education is governed only in the Ohio Administrative Code, home educated students and non-chartered public schools students. It will be a huge service to each of these students and their families to put their fate in the hands of an unelected bureaucratic director that could change every four years with a new governor.
So I really urge you to act on this as soon as possible, especially if you believe in school choice. This is dangerous stuff that they're getting into, and it will impact everyone like their warning. There is a link to find State Senator with this bill and links to the Ohio Senate Education Committee and then State Board of Education, Ohio Senate Primary and Secondary Education Committees. There are links to all of those things that will be on our social media as well.
So help us get this information out there and share it with everybody so we can stop this before they move any further. The next bit of news I have for you is from Smart Brief on Special Education. Mississippi Today covered the story as well as this exclusion of disability rights sought from Mississippi Standards. The latest revision to Mississippi Social Studies Standards has prompted advocates to urge during a period of public comment that the U.S.
disability rights movement be included in the U.S. history and minority studies courses, as well as more general education about individuals with disabilities and early, early grades. The Mississippi Department of Education plans to present a final version of the Standards to the State Board of Education as it's December 15th meeting. In Spectrum News, Lewisville, Kentucky covered trauma-informed reading mentors work with Kentucky students.
A teacher created a nonprofit that serves students in Lewisville, Kentucky area by providing books and other resources to help students who have experienced trauma. Trauma-informed reading mentors help students examine and identify their fillings during an after-school program, which aims to boost students' social skills as well as their reading levels. And diverse issues in higher education reports that Justice Department proposes a decree in Berkeley ADA-A case. Under a proposed consent decree filed by the Justice Department, the University of California at Berkeley would, among other things, make online contact more accessible to people with disabilities.
Name a web accessibility coordinator and revise policies and training. The decree would resolve a complaint against the school and it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. Staten Island Advance in New York reports that New York Service offers social life skills support. Students and young adults with disabilities receive social and life skills plus tutoring support through Victoria's Educational Services, based in Staten Island, New York, which offers social groups for participants of all ages, as well as speed dating, initiative for young adults.
Program owner Victoria Bennett says the program facilitates socialization by grouping attendees based on their social needs and skills and offers support to help students from relationships or form relationships. Also, if you're looking for a scholarship, you want to go to school.newhideseducation.org. And look for, you can even use your search when you're on that site. Look for College Express.
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And EdSearch covered the story. It says, this YouTube, the new school TV cart. Well, data shows that educators favor using video in the classroom too often. They are pressing play essentially a modern day equivalent of a TV cart.
Asserts, read, or read Dixon, a former K-12 teacher and current program manager for faculty, development at Pima Community College. In this commentary, Dixon offers several tips to help students make video more effective, including offering a video paratext, guidance, prompts, and activities to accompany a clip. K-12 died reports that more students favor eating school meals services. 86% of middle and high school students said they are somewhat or very likely to eat school meals up from 61%.
According to a survey by nonprofit, No Kid Hungry, of those surveyed, 64% of students said they would be much more likely to eat school meals than included food they already know they like. Tech Crunch reports that MIT researchers are developing a self-assembling robot. Researchers at MIT Center for Bits and Adams are developing robots that effectively assemble themselves. As components called boxholes, grab and attach others of their kind, are the quote, are approach challenges the convention that larger constructions need larger machines to build them.
It could be applied in areas that today either require substantial capital investments for fixed infrastructure or altogether unfeasible. The researchers wrote in nature and a quote. ASCD on K-12 leadership, smart brief reports that, and so does the Edutopia, Edutopia reported this as well, the Kalego coaching can spread solutions among districts and involves peers across special values or even school districts and involves equal fitting for both participants such as an assistant principal and assistant superintendent, Ryan Akselson, the educator and instructional coordinator. School leaders can foster these relationships by expanding networking opportunities across districts, so teachers and administrators don't have to reinvent the wheel.
The Washington Post reports that companies roll back their remote job listings. The unemployment rate is still near historic lows, but the economy softens workers looking for remote jobs are finding the search to be more competitive than it was even a few months ago. Only 15% of job listings on the end are for remote positions, but they are attracting about half of the job applications. WCNC-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina reports that a program seeks to provide schools with adaptive bikes.
The Petals Possible program run by the Lancaster Breakfast Rotary Club in South Carolina is raising money to purchase 12 adaptive bikes for the local school district to help students with disabilities improve their physical health and gain confidence. Chad Catledge, the club president, says the goal is to expand the program to districts across the country. And in Wisconsin, Wisconsin Examiner and Wisconsin Public Radio reported that school libraries in Wisconsin will share $52 million made available through the state's Common School Fund. About 30% more than last year's distribution.
The funds are often the only funding school libraries received to purchase new books and technology. State and local education news here for Ohio comes from the Ohio Department of Education. Cleveland.com reported on the story that says delivering an individualized education plans when 22% of the students need them. Cleveland's Promise.
Ms. Carla Martin has seen so much growth in children who are on an individualized education plan that some kids eventually reach a point where they no longer need their IEPs. The intervention specialist at Cleveland O'Mira Elementary School also has taught students who have remained on IEPs for the long term but have shown consistent development. Ms.
Martin, who works with third and fourth graders on math and English language arts, is part of O'Mira's student support team, which provides early intervention for students who might have learning disabilities. Cleveland.com and the plain dealer have embedded for the past year at O'Mira to document the many challenges that Cleveland teachers face by educating children whose lives are complicated by poverty. And Dayton NBC2 reports that Ohio teacher should be living donor, performer, fourth grade student 27 years later. A fourth grader, a fourth grade was a decade old memory for a Summit County man from suddenly right when he needed it most.
His elementary school teacher came back into his life just in time to help save it. Quote, every child I've ever taught is one of my kids said Theresa Novak. Teaching nearly 30 years Novak said one of the places she feels the most at home is in the classroom. She still has a picture book of her students from the first two classes of her career.
Port Smaug, Daily Times reports the students grades six to 12 invited to participate in Ohio Southern MLK writing contest. The Ohio University Southern Council of Diversity and Inclusion has announced the prompt for the 2023 Dr. Martin King, sorry, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
writing contest. The theme of the 2023 Dr. Martin Luther King writing contest is quote inspiring by his words. Participants are asked to read specific quotations that are engraved on the Martin Luther King Jr.
Memorial Washington DC, which can be found listed on the contest website. The 2023 challenges open to students in grades six to 12, and Ohio University Southern Tri-State Service Area of Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky. Students should select a quote that inspires them in right upon or short essay that responds to the quote in some way. They should think about how the quote applies to their own community or personal experiences today and let those thoughts guide the response.
The Unstown Bendicator reports that repurpose without a purpose. Within the next few months, the seeds will be planted to convert a parcel on which sets a closed school forest lawn stormwater, park educational pavilion and surrounding property, which is on the site of the closed Market Street Elementary School. To acreage, that would be repurposed to mitigate chronic flooding and contain a structure to serve as a multi-pronged educational facility. The concept also bodes well for Scott Lenhart, who says quote, when it's finished, we will work on the water quality and diverse species.
The seventh graders will test the water to get a baseline for water quality and monitor water quality, hoping to grow native plants document what has grown and increased biodiversity, sislinheart. A 15 year, Boardman Glenwood Jr. High School eighth grade science teacher. Cleveland.com also reports that array schools adjust search for diversity and family engagement coordinators.
The unfulfilled full time coordinator of a family engagement and Jedi Justice Equality Diversity Inclusion position and the Bureau Board of Education approved in May will be split into two separate part time jobs instead. Bureau City School District Superintendent Tracy Wheeler told the Board at its November 21st meeting that the search is to fill their original position was unsuccessful. A coordinator of family engagement job will be posted and as well as a coordinator of Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion position. Cleveland.com also reports that Medina School Board hears plans for recreation center expansion.
The Medina Community Recreation Center expansion was a topic of discussion at last week's school board meeting when city officials presented the public or projects, excuse me to the board. The building is owned and operated by both entities. The project is expected to cost 700,000 with a 70,000 contingency. The city will be playing for this project and got a grant to help pay for it.
It will come at no cost to the school district. Jack, I think we need to take a quick commercial break. It'll be right back. Stay tuned.
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Back to Education in the New Heights Show on Education. This family Clark. The next story I have is the New York Times. New York City Charter School enrollment rises.
Enrollment in New York City's more than 250 charter schools grew by about 10,000 students during the first years of the coronavirus pandemic. Enrollment at other private and public schools in the city declined. At charter schools, which receive public funds but are privately operated, face a multitude of challenges in New York and elsewhere. They currently enroll about 13% of New York City students.
Philanthropy News Digest. FIU receives $10 million from Lee Kaplan for Journalism and Media School. The gift from the co-founder of Pence Media, which owns Variety and Rolling Stones magazines, will establish a School of Journalism and Media, focused on developing a curriculum that engages the university's diversity and provides access to high quality faculty and technology. Phase O's Day 1 Fund Awards, 123.5 million for homeless families, awarded through the 5th Annual Day, one Families Fund Leadership Awards, one of the Filmthropy Two Programs grants will support 40 organizations from 26 states, and Puerto Rico to help families move from unsheltered homelessness and shelters to permanent housing with the services they require to achieve stability.
Ball Brothers Foundation Awards, over 5 million in grants. The grants include support for efforts to bolster counseling programs and expand outdoor learning throughout Muncie schools. The University of Maryland launches Violence Reduction Center. Funded by Arnold Ventures, the center will gather the most rigorous research on community-based violence and synthesize it and make it available free of charge to the general public, federal, and state, and local leaders.
I'm trying to bring up the next bit of news here. I apologize. I'll be right back. Sorry about that.
So more from Filmthropy News Digest. University of Central Florida receives $10 million gift, part of the $30 million Fundraising Campaign. The gift from Dr. Phillips Charities will support construction of a new facility on the 50-acre property.
And I'm St. Baldrick's Foundation Awards, over 1.2 million in research grants. A title of 27 infrastructure grants will be awarded to hospitals and institutions across 20 states. I did find a audio I wanted to share with you.
I'm going to try to bring it up here for you to listen to. Just a moment. Here it is. I'm trying to open it.
Here with me. In 1896 and 1920, a small number of powerful industrialists together with their private foundations spent more money on mass force schooling than the government did. Indeed, Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller together spent more money than the government did on schooling.
If you want to know the motives of this project, you need only read the first public mission statement of Rockefeller's General Education Board that was printed in its first report to Wellwishers issued in 19 seconds. People yield themselves with perfect hostility to our molding hands. The present education conventions of intellectual and character education fade from their minds. And unhampered by tradition, we work our own will.
We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science. We have not to raise up from them authors, educators, poets, men of letters. We shall not search for artists, painters, musicians, lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of which we have. And ample supply.
The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way that things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way. The real purpose of modern schooling was announced by Edward Ross at the University of Wisconsin in the same year that was written. Ross is generally considered one of the three founders of the 20th century discipline called Sociology.
In a book bluntly called Social Control, Ross wrote, I'll quote directly, plans are underway to replace family, church, and community. With propaganda, education, and mass media, people he informed his readers are only little plastic lumps of dough. Another insider of modern schooling, H.H. Goddard, Chairman of Psychology Department at Princeton, called government schooling in 1920, quote, the perfect organization of the hive.
Goddard wrote, the standardized testing was to cause the lower classes to confront their biological inferiority, sort of like wearing a dunce cap. What do you think about? If you don't know that voice, that's Sean Taylor Gatto. We share a lot of his videos on our suggested books on our site on school.newiteseducation.org.
We invite you to go and listen to some more from him. He is just the best when it comes to understanding the public school system, why it's the way it is, that it's no accident, the problems that we face with it. And it will really educate you on all the things that are not working in our country and why they're not working. Now the next bit of news I have for you is from philanthropy news digest.
The Gunn Foundation awards 19.3 million in grants. Awards include half a million in support of leadership transition for incoming, Cuyoga County Executive and other grants focused on the foundation's priority program, areas of racial equity and climate justice. Does it sound like those two things would need that kind of money? What are your thoughts on that?
Department of Education again, News, State and Local Education News here in Ohio. Katnay repository, Marlington is one of the 25 districts in Ohio to get state literacy grant. Marlington has spent the past three years trying to improve how it teaches students to read and write district leaders introduced reading programs such as Hagerty and foundations to help teachers better instruct students on learning the individual sounds of words, the phonetic awareness, and how those sounds are written or phonics. Research has shown these types of skills help students learn to read district leaders hope a $200,000 state literacy grant for Marlington's recently received will help them create a cohesia plan that will guide how the district approaches literacy reading writing, speaking and listening.
For students in kindergarten to fifth grade, Marlington is one of only 25 school districts in Ohio, and only Stark County School District is to receive the Ohio Department of Education grant. The Toledo Blade reports that art is an integral to education at Toledo School of the Arts. Toledo School for the Arts is a performing arts school at its heart offering programming and dance, music, theater, writing and of course, the visual art. For students of all towns and interest conflourish at this public community school, which was chartered by Bowling Green State University in 2008, Enrollment is run as a lottery and applications for the upcoming school year are often opened through January 27.
Integrating the arts into core classes, the school's curriculum is about more than just studying algebra and memorizing textbook material. Toledo Blade also reports that Catholic school enrollment stays steady following the pandemic, and they were looking at 14,000 this year for all of its roughly 60 school scattered throughout 19 counties. And that number fluctuated between 50 and 100 in the past two years. Cleveland.com reports that Beachwood Schools use high school music students to learn from pros, two options presented for elementary school buildings.
The Beachwood High School Music Department is hosting three musical residencies in partnership with the Cleveland Federation of Musicians, Local 4. Kent State University's Black Squirrel Winds Assemble and Blue Water Brass Quetette will reside with the concert band as well. As will the conductor, cellist and viola, the gampus, David B. Ellis Beachwood High School student, Dahlia Berskowski, who survived cancer as an infant and has collected more than 30,000 pajamas for children in hospitals throughout her nonprofit Sweet Dreams for Kids.
This holiday season, Dahlia continued to spread comfort to children around the world with the 2022 Sweet Dreams for kids, pajama drive at Beachwood City Schools. Columbus Dispatch. Dahl reached for Ohio University to offer courses at Pinkerton North. Current Ohio University students, non-traditional prospective students and those still in high school will have a new opportunity to earn college credits and a new opportunity to earn college credits.
The University of Washington, thanks to a partnership between Ohio University Lancaster and Pinkerton Schools. At the end of the spring semester, last May, the doors to Ohio University, Pinkerton Center were closed to make way for a $4.5 million Fairfoot County government services center project, the IA and agreement with the Fairfield County Commissioners. Ohio University received approximately $2.2 million from the 30,000 square foot building, but the cell left to avoid for those in Pinkerton and surrounding communities. And a year later, a resolution of sorts with has materialized.
Ohio University landcaster has struck a deal with Pinkerton Schools to offer night courses at Pinkerton High School North in a start to January 17. Just a moment. Bill and Thrappie News Digest. GSK announces impact award winners for 2022.
The pharmaceutical company with corporate hubs in Philadelphia and North Carolina research triangle will provide capacity building grants of 50,000 each to 20 nonprofits, working to improve health and welfare of people in historically underrepresented communities. And museums making modest gains in staff diversity survey fines commissioned by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the survey found that while museum staff continued to become more diverse, representation remains uneven, particularly in areas of leadership. Montreal universities received 19.4 million for space research.
The gifts from the Trotter Family Foundation will support construction of a building and fund graduate and post-doctorate fellowships at the McGill Space Institute and bolster projects at the University of Del Montreux to discover life outside the solar system. And Visa, the EEA Foundation awards 5 million for black entrepreneurship. The grant will bolster centers for black entrepreneurship at both Spelman and Morehouse Colleges and help them develop a pipeline of black entrepreneurs and connect them to investment opportunities. Now as you probably noticed, these are shows are getting a little shorter.
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