Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Monday, October 29, 2012
What part of Don't Shoot is this?
Two men arrested after Saturday shooting released from custody
Two Peoria men were released from the Peoria County Jail, on notices to appear, following their alleged involvement in a shooting Saturday afternoon. The pair was picked up shortly after a shooting that left an 18-year-old Peoria man with a gunshot wound to the leg, according to police.
Kinsley Fisk was arrested at 4:25 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of NE Perry Avenue and Morton Street, not far from where the victim was found. Fisk was booked on a charge of being a felon in possession of a weapon, and was released from jail just after noon Monday, according to the Peoria County Sheriff’s Department. A handgun was found on him, police said.
Torieauanno White, was arrested at Peoria police headquarters on Saturday and booked on charges of obstructing justice and misdemeanor marijuana possession. Source
You sir, are a Sexist Pig!
Imagine looking for a job in this economy and being lucky enough to finally get an interview. In an effort to prepare for the interview, you Google the name of the people you will be meeting with.
How would you feel if the person who would be your supervisor (if you got the job); the person you must impress, had a Facebook page that listed the Facebook page below, as one of their likes?
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| WARNING THIS PAGE IS THOROUGHLY DISGUSTING NSFW OR ANY PLACE ELSE. |
Let’s Expose These Hoes (LETH) ... Here's how it works: if you have naked or sexy photos of women, send them to the LETH website and they’ll put them on blast for you. Because, you know, these women are “hoes,” and they need to be “exposed,” get it? It appears that most of the women on LETH took these photos of themselves and sent them to someone they probably trusted.
Women should know better, but they seem to continue to make the mistake of trusting someone to keep her photos private. However, being stupid or naive doesn't mean a person deserves to have her life destroyed; nor does it make her a “hoe.”
Women should know better, but they seem to continue to make the mistake of trusting someone to keep her photos private. However, being stupid or naive doesn't mean a person deserves to have her life destroyed; nor does it make her a “hoe.”
The respect shown for women on these sort of pages is non-existent. The people accessing and “liking” the page, are in all likelihood doing it because they want to see the pictures AND they have a very low opinion of women.
Any person who is STOOPID enough to "like" this page, is a Sexist Pig and shouldn't be allowed to make hiring or firing decisions. Personally, I wouldn't care to work for any company that would have a manager who would subscribe to something like this. Interview cancelled.
I even saw that a local pastor "liked" the page. You can best believe, you won't see me or mine at that "church."
Any person who is STOOPID enough to "like" this page, is a Sexist Pig and shouldn't be allowed to make hiring or firing decisions. Personally, I wouldn't care to work for any company that would have a manager who would subscribe to something like this. Interview cancelled.I even saw that a local pastor "liked" the page. You can best believe, you won't see me or mine at that "church."
A beautiful day for the Suzi Russell Walkathon
Each year the students at Calvin Coolidge Middle School, take part in the Suzi Russell Walk-A-Thon.
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| Former Calvin Coolidge students from Peoria High School come out to support. |
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Suzi was a Calvin Coolidge teacher who passed away at a young age. Over the years, the students of Calvin Collidge have raised thousands of dollars, all of which are donated to Haitian Hearts.
Today, thanks to a large turnout of supporters, the students raised over $1,000.
Suzi may be gone, but certainly not forgotten.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
New York Times endorses Barack Obama for President
Barack Obama for Re-Election
The economy is slowly recovering from the 2008 meltdown, and the country could suffer another recession if the wrong policies take hold. The United States is embroiled in unstable regions that could easily explode into full-blown disaster. An ideological assault from the right has started to undermine the vital health reform law passed in 2010. Those forces are eroding women’s access to health care, and their right to control their lives. Nearly 50 years after passage of the Civil Rights Act, all Americans’ rights are cheapened by the right wing’s determination to deny marriage benefits to a selected group of us. Astonishingly, even the very right to vote is being challenged.
President Obama has shown a firm commitment to using government to help foster growth. He has formed sensible budget policies that are not dedicated to protecting the powerful, and has worked to save the social safety net to protect the powerless. Mr. Obama has impressive achievements despite the implacable wall of refusal erected by Congressional Republicans so intent on stopping him that they risked pushing the nation into depression, held its credit rating hostage, and hobbled economic recovery.
Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, has gotten this far with a guile that allows him to say whatever he thinks an audience wants to hear. But he has tied himself to the ultraconservative forces that control the Republican Party and embraced their policies, including reckless budget cuts and 30-year-old, discredited trickle-down ideas. Voters may still be confused about Mr. Romney’s true identity, but they know the Republican Party, and a Romney administration would reflect its agenda. Mr. Romney’s choice of Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate says volumes about that.
That is the context for the Nov. 6 election, and as stark as it is, the choice is just as clear.
We have criticized individual policy choices that Mr. Obama has made over the last four years, and have been impatient with his unwillingness to throw himself into the political fight. But he has shaken off the hesitancy that cost him the first debate, and he approaches the election clearly ready for the partisan battles that would follow his victory.
We are confident he would challenge the Republicans in the “fiscal cliff” battle even if it meant calling their bluff, letting the Bush tax cuts expire and forcing them to confront the budget sequester they created. Electing Mr. Romney would eliminate any hope of deficit reduction that included increased revenues.
In the poisonous atmosphere of this campaign, it may be easy to overlook Mr. Obama’s many important achievements, including carrying out the economic stimulus, saving the auto industry, improving fuel efficiency standards, and making two very fine Supreme Court appointments.
Health Care
Mr. Obama has achieved the most sweeping health care reforms since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. The reform law takes a big step toward universal health coverage, a final piece in the social contract.
It was astonishing that Mr. Obama and the Democrats in Congress were able to get a bill past the Republican opposition. But the Republicans’ propagandistic distortions of the new law helped them wrest back control of the House, and they are determined now to repeal the law.
That would eliminate the many benefits the reform has already brought: allowing children under 26 to stay on their parents’ policies; lower drug costs for people on Medicare who are heavy users of prescription drugs; free immunizations, mammograms and contraceptives; a ban on lifetime limits on insurance payments. Insurance companies cannot deny coverage to children with pre-existing conditions. Starting in 2014, insurers must accept all applicants. Once fully in effect, the new law would start to control health care costs.
Mr. Romney has no plan for covering the uninsured beyond his callous assumption that they will use emergency rooms. He wants to use voucher programs to shift more Medicare costs to beneficiaries and block grants to shift more Medicaid costs to the states.
The Economy
Mr. Obama prevented another Great Depression. The economy was cratering when he took office in January 2009. By that June it was growing, and it has been ever since (although at a rate that disappoints everyone), thanks in large part to interventions Mr. Obama championed, like the $840 billion stimulus bill. Republicans say it failed, but it created and preserved 2.5 million jobs and prevented unemployment from reaching 12 percent. Poverty would have been much worse without the billions spent on Medicaid, food stamps and jobless benefits.
Last year, Mr. Obama introduced a jobs plan that included spending on school renovations, repair projects for roads and bridges, aid to states, and more. It was stymied by Republicans. Contrary to Mr. Romney’s claims, Mr. Obama has done good things for small businesses — like pushing through more tax write-offs for new equipment and temporary tax cuts for hiring the unemployed.
The Dodd-Frank financial regulation was an important milestone. It is still a work in progress, but it established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, initiated reform of the derivatives market, and imposed higher capital requirements for banks. Mr. Romney wants to repeal it.
If re-elected, Mr. Obama would be in position to shape the “grand bargain” that could finally combine stimulus like the jobs bill with long-term deficit reduction that includes letting the high-end Bush-era tax cuts expire. Stimulus should come first, and deficit reduction as the economy strengthens. Mr. Obama has not been as aggressive as we would have liked in addressing the housing crisis, but he has increased efforts in refinancing and loan modifications.
Mr. Romney’s economic plan, as much as we know about it, is regressive, relying on big tax cuts and deregulation. That kind of plan was not the answer after the financial crisis, and it will not create broad prosperity.
Foreign Affairs
Mr. Obama and his administration have been resolute in attacking Al Qaeda’s leadership, including the killing of Osama bin Laden. He has ended the war in Iraq. Mr. Romney, however, has said he would have insisted on leaving thousands of American soldiers there. He has surrounded himself with Bush administration neocons who helped to engineer the Iraq war, and adopted their militaristic talk in a way that makes a Romney administration’s foreign policies a frightening prospect.
Mr. Obama negotiated a much tougher regime of multilateral economic sanctions on Iran. Mr. Romney likes to say the president was ineffective on Iran, but at the final debate he agreed with Mr. Obama’s policies. Mr. Obama deserves credit for his handling of the Arab Spring. The killing goes on in Syria, but the administration is working to identify and support moderate insurgent forces there. At the last debate, Mr. Romney talked about funneling arms through Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which are funneling arms to jihadist groups.
Mr. Obama gathered international backing for airstrikes during the Libyan uprising, and kept American military forces in a background role. It was smart policy.
In the broadest terms, he introduced a measure of military restraint after the Bush years and helped repair America’s badly damaged reputation in many countries from the low levels to which it had sunk by 2008.
The Supreme Court
The future of the nation’s highest court hangs in the balance in this election — and along with it, reproductive freedom for American women and voting rights for all, to name just two issues. Whoever is president after the election will make at least one appointment to the court, and many more to federal appeals courts and district courts.
Mr. Obama, who appointed the impressive Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, understands how severely damaging conservative activism has been in areas like campaign spending. He would appoint justices and judges who understand that landmarks of equality like the Voting Rights Act must be defended against the steady attack from the right.
Mr. Romney’s campaign Web site says he will “nominate judges in the mold of Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia, Thomas and Alito,” among the most conservative justices in the past 75 years. There is no doubt that he would appoint justices who would seek to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Civil Rights
The extraordinary fact of Mr. Obama’s 2008 election did not usher in a new post-racial era. In fact, the steady undercurrent of racism in national politics is truly disturbing. Mr. Obama, however, has reversed Bush administration policies that chipped away at minorities’ voting rights and has fought laws, like the ones in Arizona, that seek to turn undocumented immigrants into a class of criminals.
The military’s odious “don’t ask, don’t tell” rule was finally legislated out of existence, under the Obama administration’s leadership. There are still big hurdles to equality to be brought down, including the Defense of Marriage Act, the outrageous federal law that undermines the rights of gay men and lesbians, even in states that recognize those rights.
Though it took Mr. Obama some time to do it, he overcame his hesitation about same-sex marriage and declared his support. That support has helped spur marriage-equality movements around the country. His Justice Department has also stopped defending the Defense of Marriage Act against constitutional challenges.
Mr. Romney opposes same-sex marriage and supports the federal act, which not only denies federal benefits and recognition to same-sex couples but allows states to ignore marriages made in other states. His campaign declared that Mr. Romney would not object if states also banned adoption by same-sex couples and restricted their rights to hospital visitation and other privileges.
Mr. Romney has been careful to avoid the efforts of some Republicans to criminalize abortion even in the case of women who had been raped, including by family members. He says he is not opposed to contraception, but he has promised to deny federal money to Planned Parenthood, on which millions of women depend for family planning.
For these and many other reasons, we enthusiastically endorse President Barack Obama for a second term, and express the hope that his victory will be accompanied by a new Congress willing to work for policies that Americans need.
Source
The economy is slowly recovering from the 2008 meltdown, and the country could suffer another recession if the wrong policies take hold. The United States is embroiled in unstable regions that could easily explode into full-blown disaster. An ideological assault from the right has started to undermine the vital health reform law passed in 2010. Those forces are eroding women’s access to health care, and their right to control their lives. Nearly 50 years after passage of the Civil Rights Act, all Americans’ rights are cheapened by the right wing’s determination to deny marriage benefits to a selected group of us. Astonishingly, even the very right to vote is being challenged.
President Obama has shown a firm commitment to using government to help foster growth. He has formed sensible budget policies that are not dedicated to protecting the powerful, and has worked to save the social safety net to protect the powerless. Mr. Obama has impressive achievements despite the implacable wall of refusal erected by Congressional Republicans so intent on stopping him that they risked pushing the nation into depression, held its credit rating hostage, and hobbled economic recovery.
Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, has gotten this far with a guile that allows him to say whatever he thinks an audience wants to hear. But he has tied himself to the ultraconservative forces that control the Republican Party and embraced their policies, including reckless budget cuts and 30-year-old, discredited trickle-down ideas. Voters may still be confused about Mr. Romney’s true identity, but they know the Republican Party, and a Romney administration would reflect its agenda. Mr. Romney’s choice of Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate says volumes about that.
That is the context for the Nov. 6 election, and as stark as it is, the choice is just as clear.
We have criticized individual policy choices that Mr. Obama has made over the last four years, and have been impatient with his unwillingness to throw himself into the political fight. But he has shaken off the hesitancy that cost him the first debate, and he approaches the election clearly ready for the partisan battles that would follow his victory.
We are confident he would challenge the Republicans in the “fiscal cliff” battle even if it meant calling their bluff, letting the Bush tax cuts expire and forcing them to confront the budget sequester they created. Electing Mr. Romney would eliminate any hope of deficit reduction that included increased revenues.
In the poisonous atmosphere of this campaign, it may be easy to overlook Mr. Obama’s many important achievements, including carrying out the economic stimulus, saving the auto industry, improving fuel efficiency standards, and making two very fine Supreme Court appointments.
Health Care
Mr. Obama has achieved the most sweeping health care reforms since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. The reform law takes a big step toward universal health coverage, a final piece in the social contract.
It was astonishing that Mr. Obama and the Democrats in Congress were able to get a bill past the Republican opposition. But the Republicans’ propagandistic distortions of the new law helped them wrest back control of the House, and they are determined now to repeal the law.
That would eliminate the many benefits the reform has already brought: allowing children under 26 to stay on their parents’ policies; lower drug costs for people on Medicare who are heavy users of prescription drugs; free immunizations, mammograms and contraceptives; a ban on lifetime limits on insurance payments. Insurance companies cannot deny coverage to children with pre-existing conditions. Starting in 2014, insurers must accept all applicants. Once fully in effect, the new law would start to control health care costs.
Mr. Romney has no plan for covering the uninsured beyond his callous assumption that they will use emergency rooms. He wants to use voucher programs to shift more Medicare costs to beneficiaries and block grants to shift more Medicaid costs to the states.
The Economy
Mr. Obama prevented another Great Depression. The economy was cratering when he took office in January 2009. By that June it was growing, and it has been ever since (although at a rate that disappoints everyone), thanks in large part to interventions Mr. Obama championed, like the $840 billion stimulus bill. Republicans say it failed, but it created and preserved 2.5 million jobs and prevented unemployment from reaching 12 percent. Poverty would have been much worse without the billions spent on Medicaid, food stamps and jobless benefits.
Last year, Mr. Obama introduced a jobs plan that included spending on school renovations, repair projects for roads and bridges, aid to states, and more. It was stymied by Republicans. Contrary to Mr. Romney’s claims, Mr. Obama has done good things for small businesses — like pushing through more tax write-offs for new equipment and temporary tax cuts for hiring the unemployed.
The Dodd-Frank financial regulation was an important milestone. It is still a work in progress, but it established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, initiated reform of the derivatives market, and imposed higher capital requirements for banks. Mr. Romney wants to repeal it.
If re-elected, Mr. Obama would be in position to shape the “grand bargain” that could finally combine stimulus like the jobs bill with long-term deficit reduction that includes letting the high-end Bush-era tax cuts expire. Stimulus should come first, and deficit reduction as the economy strengthens. Mr. Obama has not been as aggressive as we would have liked in addressing the housing crisis, but he has increased efforts in refinancing and loan modifications.
Mr. Romney’s economic plan, as much as we know about it, is regressive, relying on big tax cuts and deregulation. That kind of plan was not the answer after the financial crisis, and it will not create broad prosperity.
Foreign Affairs
Mr. Obama and his administration have been resolute in attacking Al Qaeda’s leadership, including the killing of Osama bin Laden. He has ended the war in Iraq. Mr. Romney, however, has said he would have insisted on leaving thousands of American soldiers there. He has surrounded himself with Bush administration neocons who helped to engineer the Iraq war, and adopted their militaristic talk in a way that makes a Romney administration’s foreign policies a frightening prospect.
Mr. Obama negotiated a much tougher regime of multilateral economic sanctions on Iran. Mr. Romney likes to say the president was ineffective on Iran, but at the final debate he agreed with Mr. Obama’s policies. Mr. Obama deserves credit for his handling of the Arab Spring. The killing goes on in Syria, but the administration is working to identify and support moderate insurgent forces there. At the last debate, Mr. Romney talked about funneling arms through Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which are funneling arms to jihadist groups.
Mr. Obama gathered international backing for airstrikes during the Libyan uprising, and kept American military forces in a background role. It was smart policy.
In the broadest terms, he introduced a measure of military restraint after the Bush years and helped repair America’s badly damaged reputation in many countries from the low levels to which it had sunk by 2008.
The Supreme Court
The future of the nation’s highest court hangs in the balance in this election — and along with it, reproductive freedom for American women and voting rights for all, to name just two issues. Whoever is president after the election will make at least one appointment to the court, and many more to federal appeals courts and district courts.
Mr. Obama, who appointed the impressive Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, understands how severely damaging conservative activism has been in areas like campaign spending. He would appoint justices and judges who understand that landmarks of equality like the Voting Rights Act must be defended against the steady attack from the right.
Mr. Romney’s campaign Web site says he will “nominate judges in the mold of Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia, Thomas and Alito,” among the most conservative justices in the past 75 years. There is no doubt that he would appoint justices who would seek to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Civil Rights
The extraordinary fact of Mr. Obama’s 2008 election did not usher in a new post-racial era. In fact, the steady undercurrent of racism in national politics is truly disturbing. Mr. Obama, however, has reversed Bush administration policies that chipped away at minorities’ voting rights and has fought laws, like the ones in Arizona, that seek to turn undocumented immigrants into a class of criminals.
The military’s odious “don’t ask, don’t tell” rule was finally legislated out of existence, under the Obama administration’s leadership. There are still big hurdles to equality to be brought down, including the Defense of Marriage Act, the outrageous federal law that undermines the rights of gay men and lesbians, even in states that recognize those rights.
Though it took Mr. Obama some time to do it, he overcame his hesitation about same-sex marriage and declared his support. That support has helped spur marriage-equality movements around the country. His Justice Department has also stopped defending the Defense of Marriage Act against constitutional challenges.
Mr. Romney opposes same-sex marriage and supports the federal act, which not only denies federal benefits and recognition to same-sex couples but allows states to ignore marriages made in other states. His campaign declared that Mr. Romney would not object if states also banned adoption by same-sex couples and restricted their rights to hospital visitation and other privileges.
Mr. Romney has been careful to avoid the efforts of some Republicans to criminalize abortion even in the case of women who had been raped, including by family members. He says he is not opposed to contraception, but he has promised to deny federal money to Planned Parenthood, on which millions of women depend for family planning.
For these and many other reasons, we enthusiastically endorse President Barack Obama for a second term, and express the hope that his victory will be accompanied by a new Congress willing to work for policies that Americans need.
Source
Saturday, October 27, 2012
"A party full of racists'"
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s chief of staff during his time as secretary of state, decried John Sununu’s comment that Powell only endorsed Barack Obama because they are both black. “To say that Colin Powell would endorse President Obama because of his skin color is like saying Mother Teresa worked for profit,” Wilkerson told Ed Schultz. Read entire article here.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Tonight's School Board Meeting
Tonight's school board meeting is a committee of the whole meeting. The meeting is at 6 p.m., at Roosevelt Magnet School, 1704 W. Aiken Ave.
It’s being reported that among other things, that tonight the BOE will vote on purchasing more properties around Peoria High School (see story below).
What's interesting to note in the piece below, is that The District is using Woodruff to supplement PHS's needs, you know, since Woodruff already has all of the amenities PHS needs. As a result, people will once again regurgitate the old question, “why was Woodruff closed and PHS left open?”
Personally, I welcome investing in the area surrounding Peoria High School; beautiful, new athletic fields will be a vast improvement over what we currently see. For years my hope has been that every flop house in the area would be torn down. If The District has the money – they should upgrade the area and give students the needed athletic fields. #Forward
District 150 to vote on property near Peoria High
Peoria School District 150 board members are scheduled to vote on a proposal to buy two more pieces of property in the vicinity of Peoria High School, an area where the district bought four properties earlier this year.
If approved at Tuesday's board meeting, the parcels at 1803 N. Ellis St. and 1815 N. Ellis St. may eventually be used for athletic fields, said District 150 treasurer Dave Kinney. He emphasized the district does not have immediate plans for the properties.
In the meantime, the purchase will mean the school district becomes residential landlord for two more houses. "This is not necessarily where we want to be spending our money, but the opportunities came up," Kinney said. Two property owners approached the district, offering the parcels for less than the assessed value, Kinney said.
The property at 1803 N. Ellis, a frame house, includes an adjacent vacant lot. The purchase price is $30,000, while the 2012 assessed value is $42,750. The district would pay $20,000 for the second property, another frame house at 1815 N. Ellis, which is assessed at $34,080.
In July, the board approved the purchase of properties from St. Paul Baptist Church for a total of $262,000. The sale involved two church-owned houses and parking lots at 510 W. Nebraska, 602 W. Nebraska, 1820 W. Ellis and 1821 W. Ellis. But it did not include the congregation's former church at 603 W. Nebraska.
One of the houses has been rented, Kinney said. The other needs minor repairs before it is rented.
Though the purchases are bound to stir up rumors about building a football stadium in the area, Kinney said no decisions have been made. But Peoria High needs athletic fields at some point, he said.
The schools' boys and girls soccer practices and games are at Woodruff Career and Technical Center. Softball games are at Kellar Grade School and baseball games are at Woodruff. Additionally, Peoria High's baseball field has drainage problems.
In other property matters, an anonymous donor gave a 37-foot wide lot at 437 W. Nebraska, valued at $649, to the district.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Thursday, October 18, 2012
He wants to Tagg the President of the United States
... isn't that enough of a threat for the Secret Service to keep Romney's son away from the President?
Tagg Romney says he wanted to ‘take a swing’ at Obama during the debate
During an interview with a North Carolina radio station, Tagg Romney was asked how he feels when Obama accuses his father of being “a liar.”
Tagg Romney says he wanted to ‘take a swing’ at Obama during the debate
Some of the verbal punches thrown by President Obama during Tuesday night’s debate made Mitt Romney’s son want to throw one of his own.
During an interview with a North Carolina radio station, Tagg Romney was asked how he feels when Obama accuses his father of being “a liar.”
“Jump out of your seat and you want to rush down to the debate stage and take a swing at him,” he responded with a laugh, according to a recording obtained by BuzzFeed.
“But you know you can’t do that because, well, first because there’s a lot of Secret Service between you and him, but also because this is the nature of the process. They’re gonna try to do everything they can do to try to make my dad into someone he’s not.”
“We signed up for it, we’ve got to kind of sit there and take our punches, and then send them right back the other way,” he added. Source
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Is this the "binder full of women"
... the Mormon candidate for the President of the United States was referring to, when asked about what the candidates would do to address gender inequality in the workplace:
In response to a question about what the candidates would do to address gender inequality in the workplace, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said that when he was governor and looking to fill his cabinet,"women groups brought him whole binders full of women."
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Friday, October 12, 2012
District 150 - Teachers Wanted
Openings as of 10/12/2012 from The District website.
Elementary School (13 openings)
Bilingual Grade 2 @ Irving Primary School
Teacher-Middle, Grade K-8 Bilingual-Spanish and ESL @ Harrison and Irving (split)
Teacher-Elementary, ESL @ Thomas Jefferson Primary School
Teacher-Foreign Language-Spanish @ Trewyn School
Teacher Elementary - Technology/Computer Lab @ Glen Oak School
Teacher-Elementary, Kindergarten @ Glen Oak School
Teacher-Elementary, Grade 1 @ Whittier Primary School
Teacher-Technology / Computer Lab @ Harrison School
Teacher-Elementary, Kindergarten @ Harrison School
Teacher-Elementary, Grade 3 @ Glen Oak School
Interventionist/CSSS @ Thomas Jefferson & Administration
Teacher-Technology/Computer Lab @ Whittier Primary School
High School Teaching (7 openings)
Teacher-High, English 9-12th Grade @ Manual Academy
Teacher-High, Foreign Language - French @ Manual Academy
Teacher-High, Auto Body Repair @ Woodruff Career and Technical Center
Teacher-Business & Math Grades 6-12 @ Woodruff Career and Technical Center
Teacher-High, Physical Education @ Woodruff Career and Technical Center
Teacher-High, Librarian @ Peoria High School
Teacher-High, Spanish Teacher/Part Time @ Richwoods High School
Middle School Teaching (8 openings)
Teacher-6th Grade @ Lincoln Middle School
Teacher-7th Grade @ Lincoln Middle School
Teacher-5th Grade @ Lincoln Middle School
Teacher-Middle, Grade 7-8 Language Arts & Reading @ Lincoln Middle School
Teacher-Middle, Alt Ed-Math/Science @ Woodruff Career and Technical Center
Teacher-Middle Grade 5-8 Band @ Sterling Middle School/Mark Bills Middle School
Teacher-Middle, Alt Ed/RSSP-Social Studies/Technology @ Woodruff Career and Technical Center
Teacher-Middle, Science (7-8) @ Manual Academy
Being passionate wins out over being thirsty
The same people crying fowl this week, saying Vice President Biden was rude, are the same people who were giving high fives all around after the Obama/Romney debates. If Biden was rude - Romney was worse.
Biden's use of laughter was brilliant in that it highlighted just how ludicrous Ryan was being in some of his responses.
Biden's use of laughter was brilliant in that it highlighted just how ludicrous Ryan was being in some of his responses.
I love how Martha forgot to follow the Romney campaign's request to refer to Paul as "Mr." and not "Congressman."
Great debate. However, now I know that the phrase for the drinking game should have been "my friend."
Debate Night!
Feel free to live blog your thoughts...
BASIC FACTS ABOUT ELEPHANTS
Habitat loss is one of the key threats facing elephants. Many climate change projections indicate that key portions of elephants’ habitat will become significantly hotter and drier, resulting in poorer foraging conditions and threatening calf survival.
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Habitat loss is one of the key threats facing elephants. Many climate change projections indicate that key portions of elephants’ habitat will become significantly hotter and drier, resulting in poorer foraging conditions and threatening calf survival.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Over crowding and inequality in education - Peoria, Illinois
Where is the ACLU when you need them? They sue for over crowded prisons - they need to sue District 150 for over crowded schools.
A new school boundary map was made and schools were closed. Parents were given a handful of schools, where children are learning, that they could scramble and beg to attend. Today we read that Glen Oak Community School and Harrison Community School are filled beyond capacity.
While the schools North of Forrest Hill are not seeing classrooms bursting at the seams and children failing to learn; the schools South of Forrest Hill are. Additionally, the schools are all set up on some type of program schematic that place students on a different learning trajectory than their "peers" out North. When questioned about why the classrooms are so crowded, the Superintendent of Schools says:
"I don't know where people are coming from...,"
How is this an acceptable response to the very real problem of classrooms packed beyond building code?
I will guarantee you, new people are not coming to Peoria feinding to attend Glen Oak or Harrison Community School. These are the same lower economic citizens that the City and the Schools have agreed it is okay to herd in this way.
Inequality in education is a market in Peoria - it has been for generations. Folks coming from communities far and wide to make money off of the under educated parents with children who live in this town. Millions and millions of dollars in grant money has flooded into this community for the last several years, but ain't nothing changed. We continue to get what we got - maybe even worse.
So what is the Board of Education going to do for all of these kids crammed into a couple of buildings? How will they remedy this heinous situation? Will they open up more schools; will they open up the boundaries and allow more students to get waivers; or will they continue to allow the most vulnerable students in the City of Peoria to be treated in this way? Unfortunately I think I know the answer to these questions - they will do nothing.
I am thoroughly disgusted with this situation, THIS IS WRONG!
Peoria Story has the scoop from last night's School Board Meeting.
Quest Charter Academy test assessment projections
... fail to meet expected academic goals. For a split second, I thought this was a good news story:
The title was misleading ("goals exceed"), but after I read the story, I can see that what really happened is Quest's assessments show that they need to lower expectations for 2012-2013; they will need to push students and increase tutoring services.
Current overall progress measures
76% proficient in reading
86% proficient in math
2012 -2013 projected goals
85% proficient in reading
90% proficient in math
I appreciate that they are ambitious and constantly looking at the numbers in an effort to improve. Source
Related article: Quest students score high on ISATs
The title was misleading ("goals exceed"), but after I read the story, I can see that what really happened is Quest's assessments show that they need to lower expectations for 2012-2013; they will need to push students and increase tutoring services.
Current overall progress measures
76% proficient in reading
86% proficient in math
2012 -2013 projected goals
85% proficient in reading
90% proficient in math
I appreciate that they are ambitious and constantly looking at the numbers in an effort to improve. Source
Related article: Quest students score high on ISATs
Monday, October 8, 2012
Answer: The wrong team - the wrong dream
Are you my refuge, are you my home,
if you can't shelter me, then I'll be moving on.
Who do I turn to, you never take time out for me,
and who do I lean on, when this world fights against me,
and where do I run to hide, who fights on my side,
you know I need you, who do I turn to?
Peoria's "gun-related crimes" tally continues to climb
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Hat tip Dennis
This timely video speaks to the gun-related crime tally issue shown above
and the schools and snitching issues posted below.
The perils of snitching where you live and/or matriculate
If it escapes you why the slogan "Don't Snitch," has more street creed than the slogan "Don't Shoot," the students who attend Manual Academy can tell you all about it.
For those of you who know nothing about what it takes to survive in the inner city; and seem to have this romanticized notion about "snitching." Here is how it works IF YOU ARE LUCKY and you snitch on the kid next door, or the kid down the street...
Boy arrested after allegedly threatening Peoria homicide witness
A heavy police presence greeted Manual Academy pupils Tuesday after a student who is a witness in some classmates' murder case was threatened at gunpoint Monday off school grounds.
Authorities have arrested a 16-year-old boy on harassment and weapons charges as part of an ongoing investigation into the slaying last week of Michael Robinson during an armed robbery.
Word of the witness's involvement with the case apparently began to spread among students Monday through Facebook, on which some of the suspects and their "friends" in the homicide last week identify themselves as being affiliated with the Bombsquad street gang.
Three juveniles were arrested over the weekend and charged as adults with murder - Charles Smith, 15, of 2431 W. Starr St.; Dionte Wells, 15, of 2722 W. Garden St.; and Marquis Flora, 16, of 719 S. Greenlawn Ave. - for the double shooting of Robinson and another man Sept. 26 at 2241 W. Starr St.
When the boys were charged as adults with murder on Sunday, several friends who identify themselves as Bombsquad members immediately copied the mug shots from pjstar.com and used them for their own profile pictures.
One person edited the photo to include a drawing of a handgun, caricatures of circular bombs with smiley faces on the foreheads of the boys and the words "one team" and "one dream" above and below their faces.
The threats against the witness began to show up within the Facebook network, according to authorities, then materialized in a face-to-face confrontation Monday afternoon. Source
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Big Bird and Jim Lehrer, a part of the 47%?
Romney has just become the bain of Sesame Streets existence. Big Bird, Gwen Ifill, Jim Lehrer, and "other things," have been threatened to be sent to the salt mines if/when Romney becomes President.
Romney told moderator Jim Lehrer:
“I’m sorry Jim. I’m gonna stop the subsidy to PBS.
I’m gonna stop other things.
I like PBS, I like Big Bird, I actually like you too.” Source
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Why so many teacher resignations in September?
There appears to be an unusual number of teacher and teacher aide resignations on the Sept. 24 2012, Human Resources report shown below. Isn't this unusual for this time of year? Don't most resignations occur at the end of the school year or the week before school starts?
From what I understand, evaluations began almost immediately after school started. In light of that, we know that some teachers are in fear of their jobs, do you think they just quit instead of being fired.
Board Report 9-24-12 APPROVED
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