Delma Blinson's Entries

Back when we were in our teacher training program in college one of the assigned readings was a book entitled "The way it spozed to be."
I recently wrote a Teacher's Desk piece in which I said that there is little evidence that pre-school programs have much of a lasting effect on the success of students in later years.
The School Board says it will lose $1,773,488 if the state cuts 5% and $3,207,841 if they cut state appropriations by 10%. They are hoping the County Commissioners will pick up most of those cuts.
I had the opportunity recently to observe the NC Senate Education Committee debate S 423 which, if it passes, will create a Joint Legislative Oversight Committee to study "teacher tenure."
I recently wrote a Teacher's Desk piece in which I said that there is little evidence that pre-school programs have much of a lasting effect on the success of students in later years.
The School Board says it will lose $1,773,488 if the state cuts 5% and $3,207,841 if they cut state appropriations by 10%. They are hoping the County Commissioners will pick up most of those cuts.
I had the opportunity recently to observe the NC Senate Education Committee debate S 423 which, if it passes, will create a Joint Legislative Oversight Committee to study "teacher tenure."
Essentially this bill, if it becomes law, would eliminate the end-of-course tests in US History, Civics & Economics, Algebra II and Physical Science.
Thousands of teachers are on strike as this is being written. And what they are striking for is the biggest threat to America we have ever faced.
A high school in Pennsylvania, McCaskey East High School, is in the news as a result of intentionally segregating students by race and gender.
The largest amount of time was spent on awards and recognitions followed by a discussion of revisions in the student dress code.
This article is offered not as news but as documentation of how our school board violates the spirit of running our schools in a transparent manner.
It may become a landmark Supreme Court decision and if so could have a major impact on Beaufort County's "limited voting" system and the Beaufort County School Board electoral system.
The Washington City Council, meeting in its regular monthly meeting December 13 heard a report from its external auditing firm.
This edition of the Teacher's Desk is a reprint of an article by John Hood in the Carolina Journal. It is posted in its entirety here.
Relative to other nations, the United States slipped further down the list in the latest results of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA).
The Beaufort County Board of Education, meeting in its regular monthly meeting announced a change in its practice of releasing personnel information to the public.
North Carolina's governor, and N.C. Association of Educators' campaign favorite, Bev Perdue, is currently recommending cutting next year's state education funding by 5 to 10 percent.
The Beaufort Regional Health System has begun negotiations with outside organizations that have submitted proposals to take over the Heath System (Hospital) totally or to take over the management.
But only 22 spoke and most of those said the same thing: Merge with University Health System (UHS) and the sooner the better.
The Beaufort County Board of Education approved joining a legal consortium led by the NC School Boards Association to challenge or "clarify" recently adopted changes to NC's public records
According to the experts hired by the board to assist it, those negotiations are expected to be "intense." The board is seeking comments on what should be negotiated and the priorities the boa
There were no (zero) upset citizens protesting the new sex ed. curriculum when the School Board adopted the program last week. Chalk one up for the new superintendent, Dr. Don Phipps.
Meeting in its regular monthly meeting on September 21, 2010 the Beaufort County Board of Education gave approval for a rather unique "fundraiser" at John Cotton Tayloe School.
George Will, writing in Sunday's (8-29-10) Washington Post highlights one of the most vexing problems our nation faces…the waste of human capital.
We may just have an excellent superintendent. It's too soon to declare that so, but we need to give him every chance in the world to make us the best.
The Beaufort County Board of Education, meeting in a special "workshop" session Friday (7-23-10) focused its discussion on next year's (FY11) capital outlay budget
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