Probationary employees will thus be monitored more stringently than other personnel during the first 3-6 months of their tenure, to ensure compliance with District's goals and objectives.
Full term members will be afforded one verbal warning the first time a disciplinary measure is warranted. A verbal warning will therefore precede any formal disciplinary hearings or measures.

If the term employee has had one verbal warning and repeats an offense, they will next be given written notice which will include a recommendation for disciplinary action. The written notice will be a permanent record maintained in the individuals employee file for future reference. Included with the written warning may be a recommendation for corrective measures to improve employee performance and recommendation for suspension where appropriate.

The written notice must consist of several critical components including the following: (1) statement of the offense, (2) employee name and District name, (3) statement of the disciplinary action…...

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Collective Bargaining Agreement Between Lemon Grove School District and Lemon

Grove Teachers Association." 3, December, 2004:

http://www.lgsd.k12.ca.us/lgsd/Publications/Contracts/LGTA0204.pdf

Lemon Grove School District Classified Employees Contract." 2, December, 2004:

What happens is many of these entities will often provide additional financing for various long-term projects that a school district needs. As they can help to offer funding in areas where, we may be seeing tremendous amounts of pressure (due to the lack of available resources). These types of organizations can be used to address some of the medium to long-term issues affecting the school.
For example, suppose that the school district is having trouble finding the money to purchase additional computers. This is because of the various financial challenges over the last few years, with most schools having limits on what they can purchase. A foundation is useful, because they can provide assistance to upgrade the schools computer system. Then, they can offer additional assistance to ensure that we are able to keep up with the changes in technology. This is important, because it is showing how this basic…...

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Arts Education. (2011). NEA. Retrieved from: http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/artsed.html

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (2011). Gates Foundation. Retrieved from:  http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/home.aspx

school districts should prepare learners for both higher education and professions. This is contrary to the current system where learners enter into educational courses while others join professional programs. n the U.S., a dynamic discussion relating to this issue started towards the end of the last millennium. The discussion carries on even now. Although less people now freely suggest ROP programs and funds should be put back into the school districts to develop technical training, some still claim that career-technical education five should not be involved with preparing learners for college: at least not for universities that grant bachelor's degrees. Many students say they desire to get a bachelor's degree at least. Drawing from the Nationwide Middle for Education Research, 79% of Tenth graders in 2012 said they aspired to own a bachelor's or postgraduate degree.
Parents also emphasize these ambitions. Therefore, students and parents usually avoid school district programs…...

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In the recent century, technical education was provided as a separate program in comprehensive district schools or specialized vocational district schools. In the 1980, a variety of efforts began, with federal support, to "integrate" educational and professional knowledge. For instance, the High Schools That Perform network was established, for guaranteeing that children complete both college-preparatory training and a career-technical series providing real preparation for work. Some school district formalized and motivated this practice by creating profession pathways. The 1994-1999 University to Perform Opportunities Act marketed profession majors and various states are now developing profession groups. Many great educational institutions now contain professional development, which arrange a multi-year program around a career-related concept learner at each grade level take a set of core educational classes together, along with a technological class relevant to the concept of the profession.

According to the Office of Professional and Mature Knowledge in the U.S. Division of Knowledge, Almost every student in the school districts takes at least one technological and career education program, and one in four learners require three or more applications in a single program area. Great Educational institutions That Work is engaged with more than 1,200 sites, and it is approximated that two or three million career institutions now function in U.S. school districts. Many learners merge college-preparatory training with CTE on their own, without any programmatic assistance.

Combining educational and career-technical education in secondary university can keep learners' options open. This incorporated technique can motivate learners to focus in their higher education ambitions while offering useful abilities if they leave school without a bachelor's degree. The management of district schools are progressively hesitant to embrace any program or educating strategy that does not enhance learners' test scores.

school district achievement are correlated with aggregate socio-economic conditions in the community. The impact of socio-economic class on school performance cannot be underestimated. The phenomenon begins as early as kindergarten: "low-SES children begin school at kindergarten in systematically lower-quality elementary schools than their more advantaged counterparts," (Burkham & Lee, 2002). The differences between Shaker Heights and Cleveland are in large part due to their different community demographics. In Shaker Heights, every single school in the district is classified as a low-poverty school. In Cleveland, the reverse is true: all of the schools are classified as high-poverty schools.
The quality of the staff, in terms of their training and educational background, reflects the socio-economic status of the schools in the district. ather than having equal staff, the schools in Shaker Heights and Cleveland have differential staff. This means that the students start out disadvantaged due to their family's low income; and…...

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Burkham, D.T. & Lee, V.E. (2002). Inequality at the starting gate. Economic Policy Institute. Retrieved online:  http://www.epi.org/publication/books_starting_gate/ 

"Cleveland Metropolitan School District."

"Shaker Heights City School District."

Individual Miami School District Negotiation
Quality of education is very important for the children intellectual and social development. Many parents often base their home buying decisions on the quality of schools at the locations of the future houses. Parents need to consider the overall effect of both primary and secondary education of their children since development of mental and habits of children depend on the quality of schools the children receive. High quality education has demonstrated impressive positive effect on children because it has correlative effects on individual success in life. (Magnuson, & Shager 2010). The report made by the First Coast News on 8 January 2008 reveals that Florida schools were ranked 14th nationwide despite their 28th ranking position in the educational spending. The improvement in the educational quality in Florida could be attributed to the system of education put in place, quality of teachers, accountability, and measurement of assessment.…...

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Department of Education (1999). Reducing Class Size, What Do We Know? -- March 1999.Archived Information.

Heavrin, C. (2011).Negotiating Essentials, Theory, Skills and Practice. Pearson Education.UK.

Magnuson, K. & Shager, H. (2010). Early education: Progress and promise for children from low-income families. Children and Youth Services Review 32:1186 -- 1198.

IV. Solution

KSCD first tried software-based solutions such as Novell's orderManager and SurfControl's Cyber Patrol, but discovered implementation issues, cumbersome processes and time-consuming updates of content filters and blocked sites. Next, KCSD turned to hardware, purchasing 30 Kentrox ServicePoint Service Delivery Units (SDUs) to serve as DSU/CSUs and to provide the ability to monitor and control bandwidth at the application level by setting policies for use. The systems also supply monitoring as well as real-time and historical reporting based on LAN and WAN availability, utilization, service quality, and application performance statistics.

Further, ServicePoint included remote diagnostic and configuration capabilities to eliminate technician visits.

The initial implementation process took about six months and involved using the systems for termination only. Once the final version of the software was in place, Hill and his team observed traffic usage patterns and anomalies. Next, the staff began tweaking bandwidth and providing limitations by protocol. If users complain,…...

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Clark, E. (2001, December 5). Business case: Oregon school district provides higher (bandwidth) learning. Retrieved February 4, 2005 from Web site: http://www.cconvergence.com/shared/article/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=8703266

Finally, you would want to discuss how these changes could affect school officials and their views on such efforts. Once you have spoken with all of the different stakeholders, you would then implement a strategy that will address of all their concerns, by utilizing all the various ideas from all parties. This supports the needs of the school board, by intelligently redrawing the boundaries and taking into account all of the numerous views. At which point, the chances increase that this strategy will be successful, because it addresses the different concerns and helps the school board to achieve it objectives (creating a win -- win situation for all parties).
How do ethics and culture affect your decision?

Ethics will determine how the redistricting experts will approach the issue. Where, they will take steps, towards finding the most agreeable solution for both parties. In this aspect, ethics would affect their decisions and…...

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Key Supreme Court Cases for Civil Rights. (2010). Civil Rights. Retrieved from:  http://www.civilrights.org/judiciary/supreme-court/key-cases.html 

Maley, D. (2010). For Mantee County. The Bradenton Times. Retrieved from:  http://www.thebradentontimes.com/news/2010/09/14/schools_and_education/for_manatee_county_florida_class_size_amendment_is_no_simple_issue/ 

Royse, D. (2010). Florida Stands to Gain Two Congressional Seats. Miami Herald. Retrieved from: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/27/1844556/florida-stands-to-gain-two-congressional.html

The school boards in this case actually tried to argue that they only use things like the webcam as a security measure -- blatantly untrue -- butt the school board members apparently did not understand that there were ethical considerations at play. They should have, and future educators using school-issued laptops need to understand the ethical implications, too.
The threat of misuse does not, ultimately, preclude the use of laptops with webcams in an academic setting. However, knowing how easy it is for people to hack into the laptop and send information back to the school board, it is not unreasonable that people and especially students would be suspicious of this technology in the future. Thus, if schools are going to continue with programs like these, they must build in safeguards. That could mean altering the software and hardware on the computers to accommodate student privacy needs, and it could…...

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Barrow, L., Markman, L. & Rouse, C. (2008). Technology's edge: The educational benefits of computer-aided instruction . NBER Working Paper No. 14240

Doctorow, C. (2010). School used laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home. Boing. Retrieved May 9, 2013 from  http://boingboing.net/2010/02/17/school-used-student.html 

Bliman, N. (2010) Student says school webcam spied on him at home. CNN. Retrieved May 9, 2013 from  http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/19/laptop.suit/index.html 

Clarke, S. (2010). Pa. school faces FBI probe, lawsuit, for using webcams on laptops to watch students at home. ABC News. Retrieved May 9, 2013 from  http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Parenting/pennsylvania-school-fbi-probe-webcam-students-spying/story?id=9905488

For their own good and that of their classmates, public school children are routinely required to submit to various physical examinations, and to be vaccinated against various diseases." Testing student athletes for drugs was necessary, said Scalia, because of health reasons, much like vaccinations.
Scalia also argued that student athletes have a reduced expectation of privacy, given that they have agreed to participate in a sport. Deterring drug use amongst students, wrote Scalia, was more important than students' constitutional rights. Scalia also found that the method by which the search was conducted, namely that "process of obtaining urine samples under the Policy are negligible, since the conditions of collection are nearly identical to those typically encountered in public restrooms. In addition, the tests look only for standard drugs, not medical conditions, and the results are released to a limited group."

Justice O'Connor, however, dissented, pointing out that non-individuated searches have seldom…...

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Do school children have Fourth Amendment rights? (2009). Forensic Evidence. Retrieved December 18, 2009 at  http://www.forensic-evidence.com/site/Police/school_4th.html 

Safford Unified School District et al. v. Redding. (2009). U.S. Supreme Court.

Retrieved December 18, 2009 at  http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/08pdf/08-479.pdf 

Veronica School District 47J, Petitioner v. Wayne Action et ux., etc., (1991). Cornell

Miami School District Negotiation
The Miami school district, which has announced that due to increases in enrollment that were not expected that the school boundaries for the upcoming year will be redrawn. The school board has hired experts to redraw school boundaries to be submitted for next year. Under this plan, many students will not be able to stay at their present school. Parents are objecting to the school board about the proposed plan on the basis of: (1) educational quality; (2) increases in travel time; (3) crossing economic and cultural boundaries; (4) effect on property values; and (5) social impacts to children. The objective of this work is to develop a plan to address the concerns of stakeholders giving consideration to who the stakeholders in this situation are and what the negotiation strategy should be to support the school board in their redrawing of the boundaries while simultaneously addressing stakeholder…...

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Berry, Christopher (2004) School Inflation. Education Next. Fall 2004. Vol. 4 No.4. Retrieved from:  http://educationnext.org/school-inflation/ 

Farmer, Tod Allen (2009) Unique Rural District Policies. The Rural Educator, 30(2). Retrieved from: http://www.ruraleducator.net/archive/30-2/Farmer.pdf

Fischer, Claude S. And Hout, Michael (2003) Different Places, Different People: The Redrawing of America's Social Geography. The Survey Research Center. University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. Retrieved from:  http://www.russellsage.org/sites/all/files/u4/Fischer%20%26%20Hout_Different%20Places,%20Different%20People.pdf 

Fischer, Mary J. And Tienda, Marta (nd) Redrawing Spatial Color Lines: Hispanic Metropolitan Dispersal, Segregation, and Economic Opportunity. Princeton University. Retrieved from:  http://paa2005.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=51077

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONSCertified in special education, math, reading, and the social sciences, I also offer a background in business administration that can help school administrators to improve their policies and curriculum.EDUCATIONBarry UniversitySpecialist in Education, 2015Specialist in Reading, 2015Florida International UniversityMBA in Business Administration, 2010Florida A&M UniversityBS in Psychology, 2006EXPERIENCERobert Renick Educational Center, Miami Gardens FLSpecial Education, Math TeacherJan 2011-current Liaison between parents, students, and administrators to develop the best Individualized Education Plan for fifty students each year. Continually improving overall student test scores by 10% Successfully training educators in special education techniques for classroom management and IEP development.Miami-Dade County Schools (Various Locations)Substitute TeacherJan 2007-Dec 2010 Assisted salaried teachers in providing seamless education to 100s of students each year, following lesson plans and curricula. Helped two Miami-Dade schools reach their target results in standardized testing.HONORS AND CERTIFICATIONSProfessional teaching certifications:Reading K-12Math 6-12ESE K-12Elementary Education K-6Social Sciences 6-12...

Danville School District ESOL program handbook contains policies and procedures that help English language learners (ELLs) attain English proficiency. The key components of the handbook include 1) the district’s legal obligations to ELLs and their parents, 2) the district’s procedures for identifying, assessing and placing students in ESOL program, 3) the district’s educational approach and curriculum, 4) the district’s methods and procedures for students exiting from ESOL program, and 5) the district’s method of evaluating the effectiveness of the ESOL program (“Danville School District ESOL Program Handbook,”2019). The remainder of this paper elaborates on how the above key components of the handbook are consistent with language policies reviewed in this course. Danville School District legal obligations to ELLs and their parents
Below are some of the legal reasons why the district has an ESOL program.
The Civil Rights of 1964, Title VI
Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits recipients of federal…...

Chicago's School Systems
"CPS recommends closure of four underperforming charter schools" is about the recent determination that four charter schools in the Chicago area will be closed. The reason for shutting down these schools is that they are underperforming, and not adequately serving the students that they are supposed to provide a quality education. Specifically, three of the schools -- Amandla Charter High School, Shabazz/Sizemore Academy Elementary School, and Larry Hawkins High School -- were on the Academic Warning List last year. As such, they were tasked with designing and implementing remediation plans to help their students to perform better. A review of those remediation plans, however, determined that they were not sufficiently implemented during the present school year. Subsequently, Chicago Public Schools has decided to revoke the charter for these institutions. The fourth school, Bronzeville Lighthouse Charter Elementary School, will not get its charter renewed because it has failed…...

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iverview Gardens School District has a 21.43% suspension rate as of 2015 and a total of 750 suspensions. Numbers may be different for the 2016 school year. The St. Louis School District, which encompasses Clayton School District, has a suspension rate of 29.12% with 3,470 total suspensions (Crouch, 2015). The iverview Gardens School District provides education for students living in the surrounding areas of iverview, Neighbors, Bellefontaine, Castle Point, Moline Acres, as well as other areas of Unincorporated St. Louis County. Clayton School District offers a small teacher-staff -- member ratio at the elementary school level up to the high school level with 11:1, 12:1, and 11:1 students per teacher or staff member.
Clayton High School and iverview Garden High School do not have a program for student suspensions, especially in school student suspensions. Neither do they have out of school student suspension programs that may offer chances for students to…...

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Crouch, E. (2015, March 2). Rash of elementary school suspensions in St. Louis area are a pipeline to problems | Education | stltoday.com. Retrieved from  http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/rash-of-elementary-school-suspensions-in-st-louis-area-are/article_5efb0738-fda9-5532-b48b-eaae17f5f659.html 

MoVIP. (n.d.). MAP & EOC Testing FAQ - Missouri Virtual Instruction Program. Retrieved from  http://movip.org/faqs/map-eoc.html 

Stuckey, A. (2015, June 7). Virtual schools offer students another option, but questions persist | Business | stltoday.com. Retrieved from http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/virtual-schools-offer-students-another-option-but-questions-persist/article_5ec8b939-7a0b-540b-ba4e-ee9d24d7bd77.html

" The Court followed the guidance of the Office of Special Education Programs, since no definition for "private school or facility" within the IDEA or the accompanying regulations existed. It then applied Nevada law to determine eligibility for IDEA-funded services for home schooling. The Nevada law in force at the time defined "private school" in a way that excluded home-education.
iven this finding, the Hooks then argued that Nevada law and the school district policy violated IDEA. The Court offered a statutory analysis of the language "private school or facility" to stress that the "IDEA leaves discretion to the [s]tates." First, it analyzed the usual meaning of the phrase, stating that the plain language "does not require that exempted home education qualify as a 'private school or facility.'" Then it turned to the OSEP interpretation, because it is the agency "charged with implementing and enforcing the IDEA.

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Given this finding, the Hooks then argued that Nevada law and the school district policy violated IDEA. The Court offered a statutory analysis of the language "private school or facility" to stress that the "IDEA leaves discretion to the [s]tates." First, it analyzed the usual meaning of the phrase, stating that the plain language "does not require that exempted home education qualify as a 'private school or facility.'" Then it turned to the OSEP interpretation, because it is the agency "charged with implementing and enforcing the IDEA.

It stated that the school district satisfactorily provided the Hook's son with a "free appropriate public education." By turning down the offer, the Hooks rejected the attendant subsidized special services. Lastly, the Court negated the Hooks' 1983 claims, arguing that the school district's policy did not violate due process and equal protection principles of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

ANALYSIS: Home schooling has continued to grow, with a large number of parents assuming the responsibility of caring for their disabled children. In states where home schooling is not under the definition of private school, parents will have to choose between paying for the necessary services or placing their child in public school. A consistent decision has to be made across the country that clearly defines IDEA.

If you want to find out more information about education management and administration, the best way to do so may be to talk to an educational administrator.  While they are similar to managers and administrators in other fields, there are unique skills needed in an education environment.  Therefore, it should come as no surprise that almost everyone in this field begins as an educator.

Education management and administration deals with handling how the school runs.  Scheduling, determining what classes a school should offer, determining hiring needs, and handling the teachers are all parts of school administration.  One of....

In our opinion, at this time the most pressing challenge faced by school leaders is safely continuing with student education while also managing the risk of disease posed to people by the current COVID-19 pandemic.  Many school districts immediately scrambled to get technology into place to support distance-learning, but quickly found that while the technology is important for delivery of classroom materials, the technology is only a tool in the hands of educators.  Educators need to be able to teach using the technology, and, if they are unable to do so, they put their students at a disadvantage.

Moving forward,....

There are many different topics to select when writing about online education.  You can approach the essay from the point-of-view of an educator or of a student, and you can also look at it by grade level for K-12 students, for classes for undergraduate and graduate students. You can focus on the challenges that people face as remote learners or the benefits of remote learning.  Many people who are looking at online education today also look at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on remote learning/ online education and how different school districts and educational institutions have....

1. The impact of budget constraints on local government services
2. Dealing with increasing urbanization and the strain on infrastructure
3. Addressing the affordable housing crisis in local communities
4. The role of local governments in promoting sustainability and combating climate change
5. Managing the effects of population growth on local resources and services
6. Balancing the needs of diverse communities within a local government jurisdiction
7. The challenges of maintaining public safety and emergency response in local government settings
8. Ways local governments can address issues of public health and access to healthcare
9. Implementing effective strategies for community engagement and citizen participation in local....