Filed under: General and Misc — Sabrina Craig at 7:38 pm on Monday, May 21, 2007
Everyone’s invited to attend this LSC Special Meeting, which will focus on making decisions about the Principal Selection process. After an update about the current status of the search, the Council will review and approve:
- a final Principal Selection schedule for public posting (dates, times and places for all meetings)
- a division of tasks (who will do what)
- a screening rubric (criteria for narrowing the field of candidates to 10 or 12)
This meeting will last only one hour. Public participation is welcome – bring the kids!
Filed under: General and Misc — laura at 5:46 pm on Sunday, May 20, 2007
Advertising for the principal’s position is costly and the LSC has no budget. Please consider making a contribution of $5, $10 or $20 to the search for our new principal.
Drop off your anonymous donation to the Main Office before June 8th!
Filed under: General and Misc — laura at 5:43 pm on Sunday, May 20, 2007
At the May 15th Meeting of the PTO, the following nominations were made for PTO Officer and Board of Directors:
Co-Presidents: Maria Holstead and Laura Kuzniar
Vice-President: Meghan Hinchcliff
Treasurer: Cindy Hannan
Secretary: Sarah Landicho
Board of Directors: Carly Labrada, Mark Neidlinger and Karen Herbst
The Elections will be held at the final PTO meeting of the school year, June 12 at 9:00 am in the Gallery. If you are interested in running for PTO Office or for the Board of Directors, please contact Laura Kuzniar by leaving a note in her mailbox in the main office.
In case you were wondering, the Board of Directors is made up of 3 to 7 people who make organizational decisions regarding the PTO. Any member of the PTO can run for the Board, but all the elected officers are automatically Board members.
Filed under: General and Misc — Angelo at 12:54 pm on Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Thanks to everyone for the broad support and positive energy expressed for the upcoming Tango for Drummond event.If you plan to be there, please remember to purchase your ticket in advance on the playground either after school today (Tues) or before/after school tomorrow. Advance tickets qualify for a $5 discount. Check or cash is accepted at the school. Credit card payments are accepted via web at http://www.friendsofdrummond.org. Thanks again to many, many volunteers — teachers, students, parente, community members, PTO — who have volunteered their hard work and commitment to make this event a wonderful success.
Filed under: General and Misc — sumi at 12:23 pm on Tuesday, May 15, 2007
“The Growing Role of Business in Public Education”
Mini-Conference of the Social and Cultural Foundations in Education, M.A. Program
5:30p-8:30p
Thursday May 17, 2007
DePaul University Lincoln Park Campus
2320 N. Kenmore Avenue, Auditorium: SAC 154
Admission: Free and Open to the Public
Business presence in public schooling has grown steadily in the last two decades. This growth has taken a number of forms: school commercialism that puts advertisements in textbooks and on school buses, the expansion of Educational Management Organizations (EMOs) that run schools for profit, for profit charter schools, voucher schemes, contracting, outsourcing, test and textbook publishing. This accelerating trend is radically remaking public schooling in Chicago and throughout the U.S.
Panelists address:
* Educational, political, economic, and cultural implications of profit motivated activities in public schools
* How the federal No Child Left Behind law has been a boon for educational businesses
* How natural and unnatural disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War have been used to foster public school privatization
* How think tanks and business groups expand business involvement in schooling
* How the Chicago Renaissance 2010 plan involves privatizing schools
* How business involvement in schooling relates to neoliberal and neoconservative ideologies
* The place of social movements and all educators in addressing this trend
About the speakers:
Pepi Leistyna (UMass Boston) is a prolific author, speaker, and film maker. His books include Breaking Free: the Transformative Power of Critical Pedagogy, Presence of Mind, and Defining and Designing Multiculturalism. He is the creator and writer of the award winning film Class Dismissed: How Television Frames the Working Class.
Denise Gelberg (Cornell University) is the author of the groundbreaking book The “Business” of Reforming American Schools. Her work draws on careful research and a long career as a public school teacher.
David Gabbard (East Carolina University) is the author and editor of a number of books including the award-winning Knowledge and Power in the Global Economy: Politics and the Rhetoric of School Reform, and co-editor of Education as Enforcement: the Militarization and Corporatization of Schools.
Kathy Emery (San Francisco Freedom School) a prolific author, speaker, and activist. She is the author with Susan Ohanian of Why is Corporate America Bashing Our Schools? and the founder and Executive Director of the San Francisco Freedom Summer School.
Kenneth Saltman (DePaul University) directs the Social and Cultural Foundations in Education M.A. program at DePaul. His books on public school privatization include Collateral Damage: Corporatizing Public Schools – a Threat to Democracy, The Edison Schools, and Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Breaking Public Schools.
The speakers for the event contributed to a special issue of Teacher Education Quarterly “The Growing Nexus Between Education and the Private Sector: Implications for Teacher Preparation and Development” edited by Bruce Jones and Thomas Nelson.
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My colleague, Kenneth Saltman in DePaul’s School of Education is organizing this important event on Thursday for those of you interested in the topic.
Regards,
Sumi
Professor Sumi Cho
DePaul University College of Law
25 E. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60604
(312) 362-8082
Filed under: General and Misc — laura at 8:37 am on Saturday, May 12, 2007
With Mrs. Collins’ last day at Drummond looming closer and closer, the Principal Selection Committee is posting the job announcement in electronic and print publications around the country. Alas, this costs money that is not in the budget. So we’re asking for your help.
Please consider making an anonymous donation of cash ($5, $10, $20) to help offset the costs of the listings. Individuals can do this easily by dropping off the money to Ms. Bago in the Main Office. Anytime between today and the last day of school, stop by the office and let them know you would like to make a donation to the LSC fund. The money will be used for job announcement postings, mailings to parents over the summer with updated status reports and supplies that are vital to the process.
