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Friday, February 27, 2004 |
It feels like winter here again tonight, cool and windy. Here are a couple of photos from skating this afternoon. Lindsey usually skates in the morning before school, but today we got to the rink and realized we didn't have her skates.
10:03:53 PM 
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Jason suggests reading the Act itself and I thought I would use some of the elements of the act to illustrate some of the more direct effects that we've seen.
"(H) INTERMEDIATE GOALS FOR ANNUAL YEARLY PROGRESS- Each State shall establish intermediate goals for meeting the requirements, including the measurable objectives in subparagraph (G), of this paragraph and that shall-- (i) increase in equal increments over the period covered by the State's timeline under subparagraph (F); (ii) provide for the first increase to occur in not more than 2 years; and (iii) provide for each following increase to occur in not more than 3 years."
In a recent meeting with school administrators and staff there was discussion that the staff would no longer need to work on determining the levels of improvement they would try to achieve based on the actual make up of a particular class of students as the improvement number are now relatively fixed for each year from now until 2012, and regardless of the abilities and levels of skill in the students enrolled in any year the improvement levels are fixed.
10:02:31 AM
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No child left behind update. I spent some time looking at a few resources and I am starting to get some feel for what NCLB means. I found a few sites that talk about requirements for teacher credentials, and a few that deal with requirements for curriculum development. One of the big issues is the testing that seems to be required. We are in Florida where we now have the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) which has had it's share of controversy. When we started school there was no FCAT, but we did have something called CTBS. The kids and perhaps the teachers too, called it Childrens Torture Before Summer, but it is actually the TerraNova Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills. In the mid 90's developement of the FCAT and Sunshine State Standards began and the first tests were given in 1998. So we have had the opportunity to watch the changes in the local schools as the FCAT has been implemented.
9:33:43 AM
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Chelsey wasn't feeling well yesterday so we stayed home from school. She had a stomach ache and her head hurt. I'm thinking it is mostly allergy related. She went to school today, so I will wait to see if the phone rings for me to go get her at school.
While we were home I found my new voter ID card and decided to call about absentee ballots. It took about 30 seconds and they will now send me an absentee ballot for every upcoming election through the year. Everybody should try this, no more hassle waiting in line at the precinct, and no problem forgetting about the smaller local elections either. And best of all you don't have that funny feeling of where is my vote when you drop off the little smart card.
This morning Lindsey and I got up early and went to the rink, only to discover that we didn't have her skates :( We had left them with our nieghbor who drove the girls home from the rink last night. I think that is our first time for being at the rink all ready to skate with out skates. I scrambled and found a way for her to get to the rink after school today, and I'll race up after work to pick her up.
8:51:50 AM
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