First Call Information And Referral For Rock County Wisconsin First Call of Rock County wisconsin. Keywords beginning with S. School Improvement;School Supplies; schools, alternative; schools, Private; schools, Special; http://www.unitedwayjanesville.org/firstcall/keyw_s.htm
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ASSATA Alternative High School It operates a full day alternative program in of Small Community schools of the MilwaukeePublic schools. at risk students as defined by wisconsin State Statute http://www2.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/scs/418.htm
Extractions: Director History Assata Alternative High School was funded in January of 1992 as an alternative school in the heart of Milwaukee. It operates a full day alternative program in partnership with the Division of Small Community Schools of the Milwaukee Public Schools. It provides services to students in grades nine through twelve. The total enrollment capacity is 60 students. Mission The fundamental aim of Assata is a holistic, student-centered program for at risk students as defined by Wisconsin State Statute: 118.153 Children At Risk. The Assata approach implements strategies that empower students through self-esteem, self-reliance and increased knowledge and appreciation for African-American culture and its relevance in today's society. The Assata education component is designed to integrate historic contributions as a means to expand both subjects and content knowledge needed to overcome credit deficiencies. The educational curriculum is delivered primarily in an African centered cultural environment by sensitive instructors familiar with multiple pedagogical methods necessary to enable learning and personal development.
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Alternative Network Journal - Resources wisconsin Beth Lewis, School Administration alternative Education wisconsin Departmentof Public Instruction Wyoming Kathy Scheurman, alternative schools Coord http://altnetjnl.org/resources.html
Extractions: This organization was established in 1986. They provide publications, networking, professional development, technical assistance, and maintain an on-line clearinghouse. Membership for individuals is $55 per year, and for institutions it is $195. Members receive a quarterly newsletter and The Journal of At-Risk Issues, a scholarly journal published twice a year. One of the few organizations doing important work in this field; warm and friendly, responsive folks.
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Charter Schools: Wisconsin in charter schools that are instrumentalities of a school district. Expanded areasfor alternative teacher training were included in the 1997 wisconsin Act 237 http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/timely/wi.htm
Extractions: Pathways Home Page Contents Charter School Information: Effective June 18, 1998, Wisconsin Act 238 (1997) changed charter school law (Assembly bill 631) in the state. The result is an expansion of the law, which now includes the following: Authorizes one or more school boards to contract with any "person" a term defined in state law that includes an individual, partnership, association, or political or corporate bodyto operate a charter school. Authorizes a Cooperative Educational Service Agency (CESA) board of control to contract with one or more school boards to operate a charter school. the charter school must be located within the boundaries of the CESA. Prohibits a school board from entering into a contract that would convert a private, sectarian school into a charter school. This new law applies to Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) as well: MPS formerly was allowed this option. Repeals the previous law's requirement that the school district sponsor must employ all personnel of the charter school. The school board of the district in which the charter is located now may determine whether or not the charter school is an instrumentality of the district. If the charter school is determined to be an instrumentality of the district, the school board shall employ any personnel for the charter school. Clarifies that charter school teachers who may participate in the Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) are those who are employed in charter schools that are instrumentalities of a school district.
Wisconsin The University of wisconsin System also is developing a competencybased admissionpolicy as an alternative to the will work with K-12 schools to develop a http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/pbriefs/94/94-1wi.htm
Extractions: Report 1, 1994 Previous section Next section Contents Pathways ... home page The University of Wisconsin (UW) System and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction are collaborating on defining the competencies that students need to be successful in UW system institutions in the areas of mathematics, English, social science, science, and foreign language. Working in disciplinary groups, faculty from throughout the UW system will work with faculty from K-12 schools, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI), and the vocational education system. The University of Wisconsin System also is developing a competency-based admission policy as an alternative to the Carnegie Unit approach. The UW system will work with K-12 schools to develop a profile for reporting student achievement in lieu of a transcript. The schools will be able to use any method of performance-based assessment, including portfolios, reports, and experiments, to determine the level of competency attained. Standards and Assessment Student learning standards and assessments, especially at the secondary level
Welcome To The Black Alliance For Educational Options Online attendance areas, although in places like Milwaukee, wisconsin, and Cambridge alternativeschools alternative schools typically focus on at risk students who http://www.baeo.org/options/innovations.htm
Extractions: Many school systems have established magnet school programs for a small percentage of their students. Magnet schools, sometimes called specialty schools, gained popularity during the 1970's as alternatives to mandatory desegregation plans. They provided specialized programs such as science and technology or the performing arts, for instance to attract a racially diverse student body from across a school district. By the early 1980s, there were approximately 1,100 magnet schools in 140 urban school districts nationwide. Some magnet schools require students to compete for admission, setting grade point average or test score requirements for eligibility. Magnet schools do not generally have attendance areas, although in places like Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, so-called "walk zones" were established to give some children living near magnet schools more access to these special programs. Such a policy was necessary because many of the early magnet schools established to foster desegregation were located in poorer urban neighborhoods. Children living in those neighborhoods often were denied access because they did not qualify for the special programs or because, as children of color, they would not "enhance racial balance" by attending the school.
Educational Placement Virginia, Washington, Washington DC, West Virginia, wisconsin. Wyoming, Guam, PuertoRico, alternative schools. AERO alternative Education Resource Organization, The. http://www.uiowa.edu/~edplace/OnlineCenter/www/pk-12.htm
EPCS - Educational Placement & Career Services Private School Job Listings; States Departments of Education and alternative schools;wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Listing of Charter schools; http://careers.education.wisc.edu/k-12/Careerlinks.cfm
Extractions: EPCS Home JOB SEARCH: K-12 Non-Teaching Higher Education AT EPCS: Interviews Workshops Job Fairs OTHER LINKS: School of Education Education Fellows Academic Services Phi Delta Kappa ... Academic Portfolios K-12 Job Search - Career Links EPCS has compiled the following listing of links to aid in your job search. EPCS does not endorse any of these sites; they are provided to enhance your job-search resources. Use the links to familiarize yourself with the job market by researching what types of jobs are being posted, where, and what skills and qualifications employers are looking for. Sites for Education: State Locators and General Sites for Education: Alternative / Independent / Charter Schools Site for Education: Field Specific Sites for Education by Location ... International Teaching Opportunites 50 States' Certification Requirements - Excellent site from the University of Kentucky, includes certification requirements and state job links. United States Department of Education Listing of Departments of Education and Public Instruction - from the state of Georgia provides links to state and foreign educational departments/agencies K-12 School Sites - locate all schools with this web site
About The Madison Metropolitan School District - MMSD is the second largest in the state of wisconsin, serving about 11 middle (68)schools, 4 comprehensive high schools and one alternative high school. http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/mmsdfact.htm
Extractions: Departments Home "Best Place for Education" Money Magazine The Madison Metropolitan School District is the second largest in the state of Wisconsin, serving about 25,000 students. Its 45 schools include 29 elementary (K-5) schools, 11 middle (6-8) schools, 4 comprehensive high schools and one alternative high school. The district also has early childhood programs and alternative programs at the secondary (6-12) level. The district covers approximately 65 square miles, including all or part of the cities of Madison, Fitchburg and Monona, the villages of Maple Bluff and Shorewood Hills, and the towns of Blooming Grove, Burke, Madison, Middleton and Westport. In its 1997 annual ranking of the nation's 300 largest metropolitan areas, Money magazine named Madison the best place for education. Another national business magazine, Expansion Management , ranks Madison the best school district in Wisconsin and one of the six best in the nation. Madison ranked #1 in the November 1997 Ladies Home Journal survey of "Best Cities for Women," and was the only city to receive a 100% rating in the education category which examined high school graduation rates and student/teacher ratios, among other criteria. Madison also is the only district in the country to have schools at the elementary, middle and high school levels rated as National Schools of Excellence by the U.S. Department of Education.
BTS: State Energy Program - Special Projects In Wisconsin alternative Fuels Clean Cities 1999 wisconsin's Geothermal Heat Pump Partnersfor schools 2000 - E85 Infrastructure Development Initiative for Milwaukee http://www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/state_energy/projects/cfm/states/wi_sp.cfm
Extractions: DOE has awarded the State of Wisconsin the following Special Projects. The SEP Special Projects are awarded yearly on a competitive basis using funding from technical programs in DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) from the buildings, transportation, electricity and electric power, and industrial sectors. The yearly awards were:
EREN - EREN Network News August 04, 1999 up to 25 kilowatts of solar arrays will be installed on municipal buildings, schools,and other wisconsin Electric Receives alternative Fuel Vehicle http://www.eere.energy.gov/news/archives/1999/aug4_99.html
Extractions: The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) passed a resolution in late July in support of DOE's efforts to upgrade energy efficiency standards for lighting and appliances. NARUC noted that such standards could save U.S. consumers a total of $28 billion by 2030, while reducing energy use and air pollution. The resolution was passed as part of NARUC's annual summer meeting. See the resolution on the NARUC Web site under Electricity Energy Secretary Bill Richardson also spoke at the meeting, outlining a six-point plan to solve the growing problem of electricity shortages in the United States. The plan emphasizes DOE programs that are "developing advanced generation and transmission technologies, and ... promoting energy efficiency in homes and businesses." The plan particularly emphasized energy efficiency standards for air conditioners. "I will work with the Congress to ensure that these vital programs are fully funded," said Richardson. See
Extractions: Project Description: Project Costs: The total funds allocated to the project for FY2000 were $5,977 Federal and $1,780 in local matching funds. The Federal dollars include funds for patrol hours for five agencies plus five aircraft flight rentals for five project days. Project Results: Contact Information: back to top Project Description: In 1998 the Pierce County traffic unit began looking at ways to target the 15-20 year old age group with a program to lower the number of youth alcohol-related crashes in Pierce County. In May 1999, the traffic unit assembled a group of local high school students and with the assistance of the school, operated a closed driving course where students were allowed to utilize Fatal Vision glasses while driving, to get a better understanding of the effects of alcohol impairment while operating a vehicle. The students were put through the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests and were given a chance to drive the course without the goggles. They then had the students don the glasses and perform the same tests. The final phase of this experience was a classroom speech by a victim of an alcohol-related incident and comments by the officers presenting the program. At the close of the program, students were provided literature describing what they had just experienced in the lab setting. Contact Information:
Executive Summary in the schools should be provided to wisconsin educators and law enforcement personnel.Recommendation D4 Provide alternative education opportunities for http://www.doj.state.wi.us/ssreport/exc-summ.htm
Extractions: Table of Contents Introduction Preface Task Force Members ... DOJ Home Executive Summary Attorney General James Doyle and State Superintendent John Benson convened the 20-member Wisconsin Safe Schools Task Force in March, 1999. This group of educators and law enforcement professionals has focused on ways to make Wisconsin's schools even safer and free of violence. The task force began with the premise that the schools in our state are among the safest in the nation and that there was no magic, "one-size-fits-all" program that could improve our school safety record. Instead, members concurred that the leaders of individual communities were best suited to reviewing local needs and developing a local plan to make cities and schools safer. After weeks of deliberations and public input, the task force determined that five conditions must exist in order for a school to be safe. Each school campus needs to: establish and maintain safe physical and emotional environments promote positive and caring relationships among students, staff, parents and the community and provide opportunities for youth leadership in developing these relationships include character education and youth asset development as part of the educational mission establish high expectations for behavior and develop accountability measures to insure that those standards are being met and, promote and provide alternative education and mental health services for youth in need
Wisconsin Schools And American Education Week issue for the NEA is vouchers, a concept that we're well familiar with here inWisconsin. They truly see any alternative to public schools as draining http://www.fri-wi.org/Media/Radio Commentary Transcripts/391 WI schools & Amer E
Extractions: Wisconsin Schools and American Education Week Wisconsin Family Connection - Week of November 12, 2001 - #391 Late last week, a banner appeared over Main Street in downtown Watertown where I live. The message reads: Watertown Public School Teachers Celebrate American Education Week, Nov. 11-17." As a former educator and as a current school board member in Watertown, in addition to being the executive director of an education and research institute, I was intrigued by the banner and the event and decided to do some research. I wondered, first, who was sponsoring this special week. What I found was that it is not the US Department of Education; nor is it President Bush. And in Wisconsin, it's not Governor McCallum. Actually, it's none other than the National Education Association, the NEA, that is the originator and the mover-shaker for this week's celebration. Here in Wisconsin, the state's largest teachers' union, Wisconsin Education Association Council or WEAC, an affiliate of the NEA, is one of the primary sponsors, along with State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Elizabeth Burmaster, who issued a press release along with her official proclamation that Wisconsin will join in this nationwide celebration. According to Burmaster, American Education week dates back to 1921 and offers a "grand opportunity to raise public awareness about the needs and virtues of public schools." Now, I realize that not every school, or every district, or every public school teacher in Wisconsin ascribes to each tenet of the NEA or of WEAC. However, the vast majority of Wisconsin's teachers are members of WEAC, which, again, is an NEA affiliate. In fact, the NEA web site says 1 out of every 100 citizens in the United States belongs to the NEA! And we wonder why this group has such political clout?
