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School Nutrition
Mission:
We want to ensure that students in Philadelphia have access to healthy foods that will benefit their health and boost their performance in school. In addition to providing nutritious foods to all of the Philadelphia School Districts’ students, we strive to reduce ill diet related diseases and hunger. Currently in Philadelphia, according to City Council, one in three children rely on emergency food programs.Supporters:
The School Breakfast Program, the National School Lunch Program (these are permanently authorized), and School Nutrition Association.
Opponents:
Lunch trucks that purpos ely park near schools and neighbor hood stores that only provide affordable “junk food.”All current Child Nutrition Bills
Joe Sestak, current runner for US senate supported the “Student Breakfast and Education Improvement Act of 2009.” The act was created in effort to provide schools with at least 65% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch. Today in Philadelphia public schools this is still seen.
The Child Nutrition Act has been renewed. In summary:
- Supports Obama's fight in ending child hunger by 2015
- An additional 1 billion dollars for every 10 years of the authorizing legislation
- Applications regarding free or reduced lunch should be done on the computer to reduce "obstacles", "stigmas", and "unnecessary costs to the School District of Philadelphia."
- Reduce obesity and diet related diseases
- Ensure that all children have access to healthy and nutritious foods while protecting the needs of the citizens of Philadelphia
In 2009, Robert Brady along with other Pennsylvania representatives introduced the Paperless Enrollment for School meals Act of 2009. The bill allowed:
1) Allows schools or districts that agree to serve breakfast and lunch free to all students for 5 years to be reimbursed based on socioeconomic data rather than individual student applications.
2) Makes it easier for schools serving high-poverty areas to provide free meals to all children by allowing data-based eligibility. The school or district gets administrative relief in exchange for covering any costs that exceed federal reimbursements.
“Passing the bipartisan child nutrition bill is vital to children and families in Pennsylvania and across the country,” said Senator Casey. “Especially because of the economy, more children depend on these programs so they don’t go hungry. More than one million children participate in the school lunch program in Pennsylvania with nearly 200 million lunches served each year.” according to (Politic PA)
The renewal of bill delayed:
“Congress has already passed two extensions for this bill, delaying renewal of the child nutrition programs for more than a year. Another extension would cause kids to lose out on the strong reforms and $4.5 billion in resources already passed by the Senate. (Thehill.com)
House of Representative Bob Brady and our lobbying group have agreed on many political views in the past such as:National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2010.
Bob Brady was a big supporter of the health care reform earlier this year.However, he may have supported the Nutrition cause in the past, we have yet to find information about his progress of the 2010 Renewal of the Child Nutrition Act.
Congress has put this bill on halt because of the economic crisis according to PA Senator Bob Casey. “We are currently facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The effects of this crisis are far reaching and will impact the Child Nutrition Act reauthorization debate. “
Progress
The bill may not be great but at least it is a step into improving student health. However, Bob Brady has been a supporter of child nutrition act, he has yet to speak or support the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act 2010 which is still in the air because of our current economic crisis.
Sources:
http://www.brady.house.gov/
http://frac.org/legislative-action-center/cnr-priorities/current-child-nutrition-bills/
http://www.politicspa.com/casey-urges-passage-of-child-nutrition-bill/14120/
http://casey.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/?id=e881bb5e-f7ac-43e8-8b6c-62cd319d44a1
http://www.brady.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=43§iontree=42,43
Scaer Library Speaker Series: Jonny Goldstein
Come and check out Jonny's real-time illustrations and notes that help visually convey complex ideas. Art students take note! This will be fun.
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Lobbying Assignment #1,2, & 3.
Chris Cassise
#1 & 2
Lobbying against: No Child Left Behind Act
The act was proposed by George W. Bush to standards-based education reform,
which is the belief that setting high standards and establishing
measurable goals can improve individual outcomes in education. The Act
requires states to develop assessments in basic skills to be given to
all students in certain grades and does not assert a national
achievement standard. These standards are set by each individual state.
The
main goal of NCLB is to close the “achievement gap with accountability,
flexibility, and choice, so that no child is left behind.” Voting
took place in 2001 with majority voting yes (87) and only 10 nays. Two
republican senators from Pennsylvania voted yes on the bill.
More on the NCLB Act.
Arlen Sector
was a republican senator since 1996 and voted yes to pass the No Child
Left Behind Act when it was proposed in 2001. He also believes that
this act needs to be reformed by supporting the Pathways to college act
proposed to reform the educational and re-authorization of middle and
high school success in education. In 2009, he switched parties to the
Democratic side to try and get reelected. He was unsuccessful being
defeated by current runner Joe Sestak.
Rick Santorum was
a former senator of Pennsylvania and voted yes to pass the No Child
Left Behind Act also. He played a major role in the process of NCLB act
being proposed and is now known for creating the Santorum Amendment.
The Santorum Amdendment is in the modified bill and doesnt play a major
part in the Act but is still considered the stepping stone in proposing
the act. He came up with the “teach the controversy” campaign
which implemented teaching science efficiently and teaching things that
are still being debated. He was defeated in 2006 by Bob Casey jr.
My defense:
Who
is creating this test? Officials or the teachers? It takes away from
the unique experience in class that officials who have no experience of
situations with students choose to pick the educational process of
learning and the tests that follow through their lives.
Some
states dont even have as many writing questions because they lack
funds. Gary Cook, Wisconsin’s former testing director, said “it could
cost a thousand times more to score an essay question than a
multiple-choice question.” In 2005, the Editorial Projects in Education
Research Center reported that 15 states relied on multiple-choice
questions in reading and math tests.
There
is no evidence that this is succeeding as a program and it seems that
it is just crippling school districts with funds that they do not have.
Evidence:
“A
study classified elementary school students as "actively" engaged in
learning if they went back over things they didn't understand and
participated in understanding such questions” Students are able to skip
hard questions and relate to the easy parts of the test which defeats
the purpose helping students to learn better.
Schools
are under pressure to show better test results which has cannibalized
the curriculum. When students are judged on a multiple-choice test,
teachers use multiple-choice exercises and in-class tests to curb a
students understanding to the test, which takes away from the rigor of
learning that a student is supposed to learn. A student shouldnt have
to worry so highly and waste class time on learning to take a quiz or
eliminating wrong answers to multiple choice questions.
Administrators have cut back vital parts of schooling such as:
Programs in the arts
Recess for young children
Electives for high schoolers
Class meetings discussions about current events since that material will not appear on the test
Supporters against NCLB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSTzLILQx3c
Senator Bob Casey jr.
Representative of Philadelphia’s 1st district.
Caseys statement on No Child Left Behind Act, a General Statement:
“Reforming
the No Child Left Behind Legislation Washington's No Child Left Behind
legislation is actually leaving millions of schoolchildren behind. As
it stands now, No Child Left Behind is all stick and no carrot. Its
combination of confusing federal mandates and gross under-funding
threatens to undermine creative state and local efforts to improve our
schools. In contrast, Bob Casey will work to provide our schools with
the crucial assistance they need to meet high academic performance
standards.”
Casey
is hoping to create in support of other officials a reform act on No
Child Left Behind to fix the problems that have occurred.
He has proposed The Pathways to College Act,
with bipartisan sponsorship, is a bill designed to aid low-income and
first generation students in their transition to secondary education by
focusing attention on the importance of school counseling in the
college and career planning process. This bill will provide funds to
high school districts to invest in school counseling services to
establish a college-going culture.
#3
1. What is the status of your issue at the legislature? Is this a "good" year?
This is a bad year in terms of my issue on NCLB. They are talking about making a reform of it and a lot of people believe on both sides of the political sphere that is has not worked as efficiently as expected. Senator Bob Casey jr. is coming up with another bill called the pathways to college act to curb an understanding and reform the NCLB act.
2. Who is essential to the outcome?
Who are the stakeholders in this issue? Who are the allies you need to have on board because they increase the power you have to move the issue? Which decision-makers do you need to move (committee chairs, legislation sponsors, etc)?
To make this outcome happen, we need more support from the republican side and a big part of this process was when Rick Santorum switched sides to support this NCLB act reform and go against his own belief when he voted for the NCLB back in 2001.
3. Who else is working on this? Can you coordinate?
Only Bob Casey jr as the public official of Pennsylvania.
4. Who can you influence?
I would try and influence the republicans more since the republicans proposed the bill back in 2001 and a lot still believe it. It wouldn’t be hard to have people more educated with the problems this bill is causing through statistics.
5. What is the time frame?
There is no time frame.
6. When are key dates - meetings, committee hearings, deadlines, etc.
There are no key dates or meetings thus far this year.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h107-1
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/education/no_child/basics.html
http://www.arizonaea.org/politics.php?page=282&sub_page=252
http://www2.ed.gov/nclb/overview/intro/execsumm.html
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People Vs. Hall 1854
Kern Clarke
Shelby Harcher
Amaris Romero
Old to New slide
As in presentation zen video I made my new slide background image bleed, contrast in the color to catch to audience attention, rules of the third, and large words.
On my old slide I had contrast in the color and large words.
Anti-Chinese Riots of 1871
by Michael Dea, Joshua Martin-Corrales, and Henry Yam
Congratulations SLA Marathoners!
Congratulations to all of SLA's marathoners.
10 full marathoners
4 half marathoners
14 awesome marathoners
Well done!
Chinese Time Line. (Robert, Joe, and Gil)
My Goals for Quarter 2
Goal #1: Write my homework in my Agenda.
Sometimes I forgot to write my homework in my agenda. I want to stop that so, when I get home, I don't have to ask people what the homework is.
Goal #2: Raising my hand more in class
I don't raise my hand in class often. I need to raise my hand more in class because I usually have good answers, but I don't want them to be wrong. So, I don't raise my hand. I would like to raise my hand more in class because then I would better participation grades in class.
Goal #3: Be more confident when doing presentations
I usually get nervous during presentations. Then, I blank out and don't know what to say. So, I would like to become more confident. Then, I can do better during presentations. Also, my voice gets extra high.
Starks, Smith, Mapp ChineseInCalifornia
Chinese Timeline 1868-1882
Anwar Aq, Blase B, Morgan F
Chinese Timeline 1865
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Goals for Second Quarter
One of my goals for second quarter is for me to be to be less nervous when it comes to test taking. Normally, I understand the concepts I'm learning, but when it comes to the test, I get very anxious about what my grade will be when I'm done. If I study more, maybe I could become more confident, which will make it less difficult taking tests. Another goal I have for the second quarter is to use my time wisely and plan it out. That way, I can always get a good amount of sleep and get my homework done, but still have some time to talk to friends. My last goal is to be less shy in class. Sometimes, I feel like it will be the wrong answer, or someone won't agree with what I say. At times though, I feel confident with my answer and I answer correctly.
Goals for second quarter.
Get straight A's second quarter. I was just short on straight A's first quarter so I am willing to WORK so much harder to get my straight A's.
Sleep before Anthony does.
Be more sociable.
Confidence boost.
wrok on beter spelling.
Do the ultimate drama play.
Goals I Have for the Second Quarter
Goals I Have for the Second Quarter
Try hard to get a an A in Algebra 1. Go to math lab at least once a week for every week of the quarter until grades go in. Ask Ms. Garvey for help when I need it. Don't be afraid to ask her to clarify something is class.
Find better reading habits. Try to be a better close reader rather than just flipping the pages on and on. Stop and think about what I read. Talk to a friend about what I read. Recommend the book to them.
Find ways to progress in my writing. Follow the guides the Ms. Dunn gives when writing. Don't wait last minute before a Benchmark is due. Try to improve in grammer!
MY GOALS
One of my goals are to work on my benchmarks better. Last time when i got my benchmark this time and i waited like the day befor it was due and that made it extra hard. This time i plan to start working on my benchmarks as soon as i get it. maybe like have half of it done by the third day it was given.
Another one of my goals is to become husky. i love myself for the way i am but being husky would just put icing on the cake. i plan to be able to lift 175 lbs by the end of this quarter.
One last goal is to get nothing lower than a B in any of the classes. Last time i did not get a C but I think i might get one next time.
Goals
Academic:
1. Go to math lab more. I really have been doing bad on math standards but yet have not been retaking them. I retook one of them but got the same grade as the first time. If I need help or anything I am going to really go.
2. Try to do my best more. I often do this but I have not been doing it as much 1st quarter.
3. Be better about writing down my homework. I never have used my planners. I realized in high school that I really need to use it.
Goals
One of my goals for this 2nd quarter is to try harder. This is a big switch so now that I am used to it I now can do better. An example would be to never get a grade under a B. Another goal is to try not to be forgetful. Sometimes I forget to do somethings.I forget it then I will remember at the last minute and rush to do it.