Posts Tagged ‘graduation’
by Craig Masters In May 2012 President Obama’s budget request was completely rejected by Congress, failing to receive even a single vote. That budget proposal was so bad, not even Nancy Pelosi voted it.Thank God that the children trapped in the failing school system of Washington D.C. escaped that Obama budget. The reason is because [...]
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by Jack Minor – School districts in America, including District 6 will be receiving a booklet advising them of the religious rights of students. Liberty Counsel, a group that defends the religious rights of individuals announced last Friday that they were sending 99,750 copies of the Patriot’s handbook of [...]
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by Jack Minor – In what some have said is an attempt to assert more local control over local schools, the Obama administration has said individual school districts can now apply for Race to the Top funds if they are willing to subject the school board to government evaluations. Greeley/Evans District 6 board [...]
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by Jack Minor – While the American Civil Liberties Union is well known for attempts to prevent students from voluntarily praying at graduation ceremonies, it is now gone a step further in wants to ban the words ”invocation” and “benediction” from use in public school graduation ceremonies. The ACLU has told the Lewisville [...]
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By Craig Masters Speaking at the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Student Summit on the campus of North Carolina Central University in Durham, Tuesday, Senior Presidential Advisor, Valerie Jarrett, explained Obama’s economic policy on unemployment. In her speech, broadcast nationwide to HBCU campuses, Jarrett told the largely black audience of students that unemployment checks actually [...]
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School Board fails again – Maybe students need to ‘Occupy’An opinion in support of students by Craig Masters After reviewing performances of the schools and the December District 6 school board meeting, I submitted an op-ed calling for the board to immediately fire Superintendent Lang and set the priority of the district away from its [...]
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Calls for states to force all teenagers to remain in school until gruaduation or age 18 by Matt Lacy – President Obama’s call to states to curb dropout rates by forcing students to remain in high school until they graduate has raised concerns among homeschoolers. In the President’s State of the Union message Tuesday evening, [...]
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by Craig Masters – - Opening for its first students in 1854 with no less a prestigious president than Horace Mann, founder of American public education, Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, was bankrupt and ceased operations just before the seniors finished their final term in the spring of 2008. Imagine that you are a [...]
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Budget is not “innovative” In spite of numerous meetings with the public, my colleagues are continuing their fantastic proclivity to image and politics instead of education. They have held meetings, collected input and then ignored it all for their own whims. There does not exist on this board a single business owner who is making their [...]
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By Brett Reese For those few who still read the Greeley Tribune as well as to those who still believe it to be an objective source of local information, it’s time I set the record straight. I was there. Another tortuous district 6 board meeting. I got up just a few minutes in, and left after [...]
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I’m BR and the following commentary does not represent the current District 6 Board of Education….not that this sort of disclaimer has had any apparent relevance of my other recent, illuminating commentaries, but it evidently makes someone, somewhere feel better. As easy and fun as it would be to air out the many silly antics [...]
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Windsor to Greeley Story and photo – -By Jack Minor – Many parents who have concerns that School District 6 has lowered its requirements for graduation might be interested to know the graduation requirements of the Young Marines are a little stricter. Members of the Young Marines completed an 18 mile march from Windsor to Greeley as part of [...]
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Reese School board report (mp3) Or, “The Monday Night Fights” When you elected me to serve you on the District 6 board of education, I knew I was the outsider and many board votes would be 6-1. But I now find myself sharing the oppression of so many District 6 employees. It still confounds me [...]
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March 19, 1928 – November 2, 2010 Mr. Southard died November 2, 2010 at North Colorado Medical Center. He grew up in Denver and Brush, where he graduated from high school. After graduation, he joined the U.S. Navy, after World War II, and spent time in various parts of the world, including the Philippines. On [...]
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Story and photo by Jack Minor Story and photo by Jack Minor Scott Elementary School was singled out for recognition by the District 6 Greeley Evans board of education at a work session last week. During the session, Dr. Dana Selzer reviewed a list of schools in the district based on state and federal accountability [...]
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October 27, 1963 ~ September 2, 2010 Lori Lynn Dyer of Greeley died Thursday, September 2, 2010 in Hospice and Palliative Care Unit, Greeley. She was born October 27, 1963 in Greeley to Raymond Allen and Stella Irene (Baca) Brown. She graduated from Greeley West High School. After graduation she attended Aims College and the [...]
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By Jack Minor The Korean War veteran who was the model for the MASH character Radar O’Reilly, is on a mission to turn America back to God from his farm in Indiana. Howard Lower and his wife raise corn, beans and wheat on about 200 acres and have a herd of 25-30 ponies for their [...]
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Linnea Cunningham October 19, 1937 ~ May 20, 2010 Age: 72 Residence: Greeley, Colorado Linnea Joyce (White) Cunningham passed away Thursday, May, 20, 2010 in Cameron, Missouri. She was born on October 19, 1937 in Los Angeles, California to Robert and Hildur (Pierson) White. She and her family moved to Southwestern Iowa, where she attended [...]
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Patricia Elaine Burris November 24, 1925 ~ June 7, 2010 Patricia Elaine Burris, age 84 of Greeley died on Monday, June 7, 2010 in Hospice and Palliative Care at North Colorado Medical Center. She was born November 24, 1925 in Hanford, California to William and Esther (Bixby) Thomas. She graduated in 1943 from Hanford High [...]
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Charles J. Willey Charles J. Willey, 91, of Greeley CO died May 25, 2010 of natural causes. Charles, son of Charles E. and Hazel Willey was born January 7, 1919 in Humbolt County, Iowa. He was raised and educated in the Humbolt area. After graduation from high school he worked in the office of the [...]
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