DrumBeat: Drummond LSC and PTO News & Views

French Academy Inc. is offering various French camps over this summer. Every session runs for 2 weeks, we start June 18. You may sign up your child for a morning class:10 a.m.- 1p.m. or afternoon: 3-6 p.m. We offer: Theatre, Arts Plastiques, Marionnettes and Expression Corporelle. Every session is different, but they are all about French!

Please contact us for schedule and price information. See you there!

Au revoir!

French Academy Inc.

312-315-4545

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Please come to the LSC after-school committee meeting on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 6:00pm in the Drummond School Library (NEW LOCATION.)  We will decide whether to make a recommendation to the LSC regarding the furture of our after school program.  If you want to have a say in the after-school program- this is the meeting to attend!

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!

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!

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.   

Principal Selection Committee Meeting
Friday, May 18, 3pm, Drummond Library

AGENDA

1.     Report on job postings and costs

2.     Report on collection and tracking of resumes received (Reina Bago & Mary Wheatley)

3.     Report on initial screening plans (Laura Kuzniar, Mike Hannan, Nicole Cantello, Mary
Wheatley, Juan Gonzalez, Linda Zehren)

4.     Draft of rubric (Laura Kuzniar & Mary Wheatley)

5.    Draft of public timeline (Nicole Cantello & Sabrina Craig)
All are welcome - kids too!

A big thank you to everyone who has supported the Tango Raffle by either buying or selling raffle tickets. 

To those of you who have helped with sales: all ticket stubs and unsold tickets must be turned in by Wednesday at 3pm.

Please contact to make arrangements to turn in tickets or turn them into me, Monica Lasky, by contacting or 773-252-6290.

 See everyone on Thursday!

 Monica

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.

“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

Please attend our first planning meeting this Friday, May 18th at 8:15 a.m. in the library.