Disabled vehicle tow away zone UPEI's final solution
PEI Disability Alert, September 2008, updated August 22, 2009
UPEI has the final solution for the disabled parking problem – a disabled vehicle tow away zone around the whole university.
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Bill Gates, class size is not important but teacher quality and involvement is vital
with story from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
I want to acknowledge and thank long-time PEI social advocate Bill Campbell for sending me this story.
Bill Gates retired from Microsoft and is dedicating his billions of dollars and time to improving social issues around the world, including health, education, and poverty. After spending $2 billion, an enormous amount of money, on education, Mr. Gates has concluded that class size is irrelevant in determining the quality of education of children. The real predictor of how well children are educated is the quality and innovation of the teachers.
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Rustico, PEI
By Plumette de Rustico, Rustico, PEI, Canada
École Saint Augustin has been located at the Cymbria Lions Club for eight long years.
It was established as a pilot project of the Commission scolaire de langue française that received a moral boost and a step in its gait following the Supreme Court decision in favour of Noëlla Arsenault and Madeleine Costa’s long-fought cause against the province for Section 23 rights in Summerside. Continue reading
Rally in Covehead (Photo CBC)
“Rural PEI produces 100% of the agriculture, 100% of the fishing, 80% of the tourism. Why do we get 5% of the respect.”
Mayor Llewellyn told the 300 people in Covehead at the kick off meeting of PEI Rural Alliance.
“When did it start” that rural PEI was separate from the rest of PEI Llewellyn told the receptive crowd. Continue reading
By Melissa Barton,
My son Alex Barton was voted out of kindergarten because he has Aspergers Syndrome. His teacher Wendy Portillo was suspended for one year. YET< Monday she fights her suspension in FT Pierce FL. I need your help to prevent this monster from ever teaching again. Please read the article.
Alex Barton teacher’s suspension appeal to be heard Monday in Fort Pierce
From TC Palm, Palm Beach County, FL
FORT PIERCE — Morningside Elementary teacher Wendy Portillo, who got worldwide attention after she led her kindergarten students to vote out classmate Alex Barton, will be heard Monday morning as she appeals her one-year unpaid suspension. Portillo got the suspension after a lengthy St. Lucie County Schools investigation into the incident. Alex was 5 years old last May when he was voted out by classmates. He was in the process of being diagnosed with a type of autism.
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By Mike Masnick, TechDirt, January 27, 2009
One of the more interesting questions I’ve come across in the past is how does intellectual property function in an educational institution. We already know that thanks to the disastrous Bayh-Dole Act, universities have become a lot more interested in enforcing intellectual property rights for profit, rather than focusing on their charters of sharing information and educating. In many ways, the concepts of intellectual property and education come into significant conflict with each other. And that brings us to a story submitted by Joe Reda, concerning a nameless economics professor at an unknown university supposedly forcing students to destroy all their notes at the end of the semester, officially to avoid having such notes fall into the hands of future students.
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