NC closing top school because of budget cuts

[lazerelmo]

North Carolina's No. 2 Ranked Elementary School Too Costly to Keep



http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703696704576222890833984076.html?m od=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5#articleTabs%3Darticle

but there's a twist...

[Marcus Bryant]

The secret sauce doesn't seem to be that expensive:


Academy Heights parents say the school's success isn't just about demographics. They note that many of its students come from middle-class families, where both parents work, and military families from Fort Bragg. Higher-income residents tend to send their kids to private schools, they say.Last year's PTA fund raiser garnered just $35,000, and the school doesn't sport fancy technology like laptops or iPads.

Instead, parents say, Academy Heights excels because the staff, parents and students work in unison to create an environment that nurtures yet challenges, and seeks to provide gifted and special-needs children alike with the same amount of individualized attention.

Claudia Ray, 11 years old, said she was hesitant in math until her teacher pushed her to work harder and trust herself more. Aubrey Suri, a fifth-grader, said her best friend was too shy to speak out in class until teachers coaxed her out of her shell.

[Nbadan]

Pfff....the real 'secret sauce' is between the lines...


one of the smallest schools in the district

Low student to teacher ratio........duh!

[lazerelmo]

Oh, I'm thinking this sauce has a few rotten tomatoes in it.


The very children of the town in which the school sits have rarely gotten to enjoy its excellence.....enrolls mainly white, middle-class students from Pinehurst and neighboring communities.

[Bartleby]

Taylortown Mayor Ulysses Simpson Grant Barrett Jr.

[boutons_deux]

Repugs idea of "free market" is create monopolies:

North Carolina bill would prohibit cities from upgrading Internet access

The Republican-dominated North Carolina State Assembly this week approved a bill that would prohibit communities from upgrading their internet access, forcing individual municipalities into a private monopoly of managed broadband services by companies like Time Warner and Comcast.

Both firms have been restricting the amount of bandwidth users can consume, even though bandwidth itself is not a tangible, meter-able commodity.

The bill, which was heavily supported by telecom giant Time Warner, comes on the heels of several communities successfully launching their own fiber-optic broadband programs. One program in Wilson, North Carolina, called Greenlight, even features speeds up to 100 Megabits-per-second (Mbps) at a lower price than its corporate competitors.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/30/north-carolina-bill-would-prohibit-cities-from-upgrading-internet-access/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[lazerelmo]

Government controlling the medium for information. - bad idea.

[cheguevara]

so much for those NorCarolinian geniuses it was producing

[boutons_deux]

Government controlling the medium for information. - bad idea.

I would rather have nobody control information, but I trust govt more than I trust corporations.