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March 31, 2013

School board nixes same school teacher tutoring

Editor’s Note:

This controversy has been brewing for months. The Crossroads of Learning Journal curated an article on 2/16/13, concerning a hearing in December of 2012 which resulted in the teacher’s union taking a position on school teacher tutoring being appropriate. [ Click here to read previous article.]

The following story was written by Dan Glaun, The Island Now, originally published on 3/14/13

The Great Neck Public School Board banned private tutoring between teachers and students within their buildings at Monday night’s meeting, capping months of debate between advocates concerned about potential conflicts of interest and opponents who said the change would harm students. Trustee and policy committee chair Susan Healy acknowledged in a statement the concerns of parents who use private tutors but argued that the change was necessary to guard against the appearance of favoritism or unfairness.

“The prohibition on tutoring students in one’s own building is directly related to the appearance of a conflict of interest,” Healy said. “We do not do so because there are inappropriate situations. We do it so that those situations cannot occur.”

The policy, which was approved unanimously following the fourth public hearing on the topic since September, expands the district’s tutoring restrictions from teachers and students within the same class to those within the same building. The board and several administrators and teachers who testified in favor of the change said the move was necessary to avoid placing teachers in compromising situations, creating the perception of unfairness and corrupting the teacher-parent relationship with money.

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Popularity: 5% [?]

Filed under: Commercial Providers,Government,High School,Small Private Practices,Test Prep,Tutoring Practices

March 24, 2013

Parents Complain About School Ad Excluding Whites From Tutoring Program

Originally published 2/13/13 on the CBS4 Denver Website

A school principal said no white children were allowed at an after-school tutoring program, and now some parents call it discrimination.

The principal at Mission Viejo Elementary in Aurora sent a letter telling parents the program is only for students of color. Parents CBS4 talked with said they were shocked to see, in this day and age, what they consider to be segregation. “I was infuriated. I didn’t understand why they would include or exclude certain groups,” said parent Nicole Cox, who is white.

Cox’s 10-year-old daughter needs tutoring. After receiving the notice, other parents complained to the school’s principal, Andre Pearson. “We have come so far in all of these years to show everybody that everyone is equal, that everyone should be treated equally … this is a form of bullying,” Cox said.

Before Cox could complain to the school, Pearson contacted her directly. His voicemail only seemed to reinforce the segregated tutoring idea. “This is Andre Pearson. It’s focused for and designed for children of color, but certainly, if we have space for other kids who have needs, we can definitely meet those needs,” Pearson told Cox in the voicemail.

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Popularity: 4% [?]

Filed under: Academic Learning Centers,Government,K-8,NCLB

September 30, 2012

$742K grant to assist tutors, mentors

by Justin Story, The Daily News, originally published on 8/7/12

Recently awarded grant funding for a local community service program is expected to help students in Barren and other counties. ATEAM, in which AmeriCorps members provide tutoring and mentoring assistance to students in elementary, middle and high school, received $741,782 to support its efforts. The grant, which was announced Monday, was one of 10 totaling more than $3.5 million awarded to AmeriCorps programs throughout the state.

Funding for ATEAM is anticipated to support 56 AmeriCorps members’ work with students in school districts in Barren, Pulaski, Garrard, Hancock, Marshall, Crittenden and Webster counties to improve their reading and math scores. The Mentorkids! program in Owensboro, which falls under the ATEAM umbrella, is also anticipated to benefit from the grant.

AmeriCorps is a federal program in which members serve full-time, generally for about a year, in one of a variety of community service organizations that promote education, address community safety or combat poverty. Members are paid a monthly allowance and are eligible for an additional cash stipend or an educational award to help pay for college or pay off student debt. AmeriCorps programs in Kentucky are administered by the Kentucky Commission on Community Volunteerism and Service. Since Sept. 1, Kentucky AmeriCorps programs have served 9,169 students, 1,508 at-risk seniors, helped 2,142 individuals or families find housing, delivered 55,669 meals on wheels and renovated 74 houses.

Shannon Bailes, co-director of ATEAM with Donna Morgan, said the funding for her program will help remedial students from kindergarten through high school in nearly 50 schools.

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Popularity: 15% [?]

Filed under: Government,High School,K-8

August 15, 2012

College Prep Program Gets $2M Boost

by Raegan Medgie, WNEP, originally published on 6/19/24

More students from our area will have an opportunity to go to college thanks to some much-needed funding for a program that will help them get there. The program is called Upward Bound.  It’s offered at hundreds of colleges nationwide.  But at East Stroudsburg University, the program was on the verge of shutting down until some much-needed funding arrived this month. “Project Upward Bound is for low-income students whose parents did not graduate from college,” said Uriel Trujillo, the director of Upward Bound.

The program, which provides academic tutoring, is offered at hundreds of colleges nation-wide. Last year the program at East Stroudsburg University ran into money trouble and almost shut down. But then, earlier this month, ESU’s program received more than $2 million dollars from the U.S. Department of Education. The money will keep the Upward Bound program going for five years.

That’s a good thing for Prabhjot Carrasco who started the program in eighth grade. She has her sights set on being the first in her family to go to college. “No only for high school, but for college as well. I saw that as a wonderful opportunity to go forward and start with my life there,” said Carrasco, an Easton High School Senior.

Every summer about 60 kids from the Upward Bound program spend a month at East Stroudsburg University. Not only are they taking classes, but they’re also learning very important life skills. “Not only academics, but it’s also taught me life skills, to get along with other people in different kinds of ways.  Not just hanging with one certain kind of group, but different kinds of people with different backgrounds,” said Carrasco.

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Popularity: 8% [?]

Filed under: Funding,Government

August 8, 2012

Reading Corps expands tutor ranks

by Kim McGuire, Star Tribune, originally published on 6/13/12

The Minnesota Reading Corps is looking to recruit up to 1,000 paid tutors next school year to help students statewide. The AmeriCorps federal service program is adding almost 300 tutoring positions — a reflection of the growing demand for literacy help. The program’s goal is to help all students become proficient at reading by the end of third grade, a critical point when students move from “learning to read” to “reading to learn.”

“Why we’re growing is because people are listening to today’s discussion on the achievement gap and they want to make an investment in a program that gets results,” said Kathy Saltzman, executive director of the Minnesota’s Reading Corps and a similar program for math. “We’re getting results.”

Statewide, about 80 percent of Reading Corps participants passed Minnesota tests in 2010-11 school year; the group’s goal was 78 percent. Specifically, 3,400 Corps participants passed the test, compared with 2,140 in 2009-2010. The Reading Corps estimates tutors will be in about 650 schools and preschools next year, up from 487 this year. The Minnesota Math Corps is also expanding and hopes to recruit an additional 125 tutors.

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Popularity: 8% [?]

Filed under: Government

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