Charter school

month with no vacation days and many school events. This can be stressful for teachers so they may start a game. The game can consist of something like the Spoon game last year where teachers attacked each other for others spoons. But this proved a bit too stressful for teachers. So this year the game being played by these teachers is a chip game. Who is the Mastermind behind it all? Brian Thomas-Reed, Assistant Principal of Animo Pat Brown Charter High School is the man behind it all! Mr. Reed…

I had the opportunity to observe Mr. Billy Mitchell on Monday, February 8th, 2016 and for a short while again on Tuesday, February 9th. Mr. Mitchell is a teacher at the Joseph K. Lumsden (JKL) Bahweting Charter School located in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Mr. Mitchell’s first grade classroom that I will be attending consists of 22 children from a rural community. The purpose of this observation was to observe children as they completed tasks related to science. I did not interact much during…

News Story Analysis: Peter O’Connor: Public education is a treasure we must protect it. Education is a site of competing and contested ideas. Numerous educational reforms are being proposed or currently underway. In this news story analysis I will be unpacking and critically examining an article writtin by Peter O’Connor in regards that Public education is a treasure we must protect. The perspective I have chosen to also examine the issue is the Progressive Tradition. In this news story…

The recent presidential election wreaked havoc among the American people. The election of Donald Trump brought many changes to the American government and society. One of these changes was the election of Betsy DeVos as the Secretary of Education. Elizabeth Warren, senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, believes that DeVos is both unqualified and dangerous to be responsible for the country’s education policy and student loan program. Education affects many people in the United States.…

Municipal School district, it soon became the beginning of a national movement, School Choice. Children can’t control the income levels of their parents but School Choice gives them an opportunity to level the playing field, although all were not in favor. District Court Judge Solomon Oliver deemed the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program unconstitutional in 1999. He stated it was in violation of the separation…

Twenty First Century Segregation in Schools The heroic Malcolm X once said, “America preaches integration and practices segregation”. The Jim Crow laws of the 1880’s had a detrimental effect on the education for colored students, since the whites were separated out of the colored schools they often received a higher quality education. In the year 1896, the Plessy vs. Ferguson court case overturned the law that separated colored and white people from one another, “separate but equal” was no…

in a community school in Midtown Jackson, a well-known low income community. The school I helped at was a charter school known as Midtown Public Charter School. The only difference in the charter school compared…

Faster, Higher, Stronger? “Go USA!!!” is a phrase many Americans cheer as they watch in anticipation the Olympic Games at home. Many of us enjoy watching sports and will cheer on our country’s athletes while the Olympics are taking place. However, for the upcoming Olympics in Rio, there has been massive controversy over whether they should even take place. Many problems have flooded Brazil recently and organizations like the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and…

Governors, which governs, directs, and oversees the management of the business and affairs of the organization (American, 2015). Ultimately, the Board of Governors executes the principles of the American Red Cross, which are found in the Congressional Charter of the American Red Cross (American, 2015). Structurally, the board has a membership between 12 and 20 members, which is selected by the Board of Development Committee and requires full board approval (American, 2015). Based on prior…

Every four years the world gets ready for the Olympics. We root for our perspective countries and form strong bonds with the competitors through our TV screens. However, one never stops to think about what goes in to making this large event a reality. It takes seven years from the day a host city is chosen to the actual opening ceremony (IOC, 2015). Behind the scenes of this movement is the International Olympic Committee. The IOC is a large component of the Olympic Movement. In addition to…