Washington Heights Community School: Case Study

The article, “Who benefits from failing urban school districts?” written by Martin Haberman, the authors influential piece expresses the concern for the current direction of public education. When the concept of who is benefiting from failing urban school districts is mentioned; one would believe that no one can possibly benefit from schools failing. The children aren’t benefiting, their parents aren’t benefiting, the community isn’t benefiting. The public institution is becoming a big business instead of an institution that helps children in their development. It is obvious that there are challenges in the schooling system. In this manuscript, I will discuss the issues with the bureaucracy in education. There will also be mentioning of how standardized testing and the lack of resources in urban schools are affecting children’s education in the urban community. Lastly, there will be a discussion about how parents and teachers have an effect on children’s education.

High School is an incredibly important period of life. It influences your social, academic, and personal life for four years, and prepares you for college and a career. This is the reason County Prep High School is my school of choice. County Prep's thriving social environment, challenging academic curriculum, and wide variety of electives will help me successfully carry out my plans for the future.

Communication within the Westside School District No. 5 between the school district and the communities and families that it serves is a very dynamic process. I talked with district administrators, community members, researched pertinent information in the Arkansas State University library, and various governmental online sources and found very helpful information to include in this sociological inventory. Westside Consolidated School District No. 5 is a consolidation of primarily three school districts Bono, Cash and Egypt located in Craighead County, Arkansas in 1966 (Westside, 2017). The district also includes parts of Walnut Ridge and Alicia in Lawrence County and parts of Jonesboro in Craighead County. The district has three school buildings housing students from pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade. The elementary school is the school for

My proposed solution to this is that school counselors and city mayors can be a major source of inspiration to children who are affected by a challenge like this. They can advise them on how to build themselves with determination to make a difference.

We will house kids who are products of all facets of society. For example, children of immigrants, children who have affluence, children who are loved and cared for greatly and children who may be in a situation of neglect. Teaching is about reaching out to each student, helping them to overcome challenges and be the best that they can be. It seems that an increasing number of these challenges may not be academic in nature. I believe that conquering these challenges actually beings with the little community forming within our classrooms. As teachers we have the obligation to teach our students how to have respect and compassion for one another. How to be on the same team and work together, no matter each person’s background.

Westside Consolidated School District should have a more robust school community relations plan that targets specific stakeholder groups and tabulates the penetration of the results from the targeted groups. The need of the School District is financial based and the plan must raise the issues of not enough classroom space and the need for a new high school building. The plan should also target providing information to parents about the need for testing is to go give the district information to build lessons for the students in the

Cuomo has constructed an Education Initiatives included in the 2013 - 14 Enacted Budget which addresses “Full-day, High-Quality Pre-K Program ($25 million)”, “Extended Learning Time ($20 million)”, “Community Schools ($15 million)”, “Reward High Performing Teachers ($11 million)”, and “Early College High School Programs ($4 million)” (1). Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, has publicly made Education Reform an issue he wishes to reform. According to his campaign website, some issues he wishes to tackle are establishing truly universal full-day Pre-Kindergarten, ensuring all students are reading at grade level by the third-grade, improving Special Education, expanding community schools model in high poverty neighborhoods, and reducing class sizes (1).

In the hypothetical case, the Rockshire High School official had reasonable cause to search Britney Sullivan’s cell phone for evidence that she and other students cheated on their AP History exam. The administrator suspects Britney because (1) the students scored extremely high on the AP History test (2) Britney has been in trouble in the past and is in the AP History class and (3) a teacher received a reliable tip from another student describing how the students cheated using social media. According to the Supreme Court case (New Jersey v. TLO, 469 U.S. 325 (1985).) the school administrator had the right to search the contents of the student's cell phone, since the administrator had reasonable cause to suspect the student of school policy infractions. The court’s decision in this case is that the student officials do not hold the same accountability of the police under search and seizure. Police are held to the strict accountability of probable cause while school officials according to the Supreme Court have only to prove reasonable cause. In this hypothetical case the supreme court would support the decision of the Rockshire High School administration to search a student's cell phone as evidence for cheating based on the fact that the administrator had evidence to support reasonable cause. The Supreme Court states, “reasonable grounds

A Concord-Carlisle High School student was arrested after allegedly writing serious threats against the school community.

Ladies and gentleman, we are gathered here to push the human race forward. We believe that by improving the educational system we are investing in our future, that everyone should be able to access the type of education that is right for them. Nowadays America faces a very distressful situation regarding the educational reach of our system, which has been engaged with several issues, such as unequal access to education, student dropouts, violence within the walls of the classroom, bullying, gender bias and standardized tests that put the educational community at the verge of a methodic and old fashion evaluation process which eventually lead to a particular lifestyle of the students. Also, the lack of interest in the matter of community service has been rising, as well as our concern for the safe keeping of the citizen’s humanitarian values.

According to Federal Public Law (PL 108.265 Section 204), all schools had to create a wellness policy in June 2006. New legislation requires an updated wellness policy by June 30, 2017.

On May 6, 2016, I was assigned this case to follow up. This investigation involves Ms. Ligny Majano Pineda a 14 year old George Washington School student. On May 9, 2016, I contacted Ms. Mirna Pineda (mother) and received permission to speak to Ligny at school. Ms. Pineda reported that when she spoke to her daughter and was told that Lingy took the wrong bus. Ms. Pineda added that Ligny’s phone had run out of charge.

George Washington Middle School has a fairly large population of special education students ranging from lower to higher functioning students. The teacher of the special education students at the middle school, Ms. Jones, had a difficult job in creating lesson plans and activities that would be engaging and on the appropriate level for all students. Ms. Jones found a new computer program that she knew all of her students would be able to enjoy and learn from. The mobile computer lab was a very hot commodity in the Middle School amongst all the teachers because they were new and they supported all the software that was coming out. Ms. Jones tried to see if the new computer program would work on the older computers so the class would be able

DC Public Schools (DCPS) has an overall mission to provide a “world-class education” that furthers provide all students with the necessary skill sets and learned experiences to take the students beyond high school and college (DC Public School, 2017). Through this bigger goal, that creating of smaller objectives guidelines that are more manageable that set to the overall agency. My program tasked with strategically planning objective to help reach agency, local/federal mandate, while providing first class services to each program. Therefore, assessing our customers and understanding their needs is crucial. Adversely, it can be a difficult task if not capable of differentiate and segmenting students accordingly.

Full-service community schools are based on two principles, “that the purpose of schooling is to educate youth for democratic citizenship, and that schools and communities are inextricably intertwined and interdependent (Benson, Harkavy, Johanek, & Pucket, 2009, p. 22).” The idea of a full-service school is not new and has been around for more than 100 years. Inspiration for today’s version of a full-service school can be traced to 1889, when Jane Addams built the Hull House in Chicago, based on Victorian-era settlement houses. Addams’ program focused on art, recreational activities, kindergarten programs, visiting nurses, and college extension courses, for the mainly working-class, immigrant neighborhood. Addams believed that social problems were interconnected and could only be solved with a holistic approach (Benson, et. al., 2009).