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KEY: If an officer's actions are so grossly negligent that a reasonable person would believe that it would lead to the person's death, then that would be the standard to prove involuntary manslaughter.
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LOU REITER: I'll be honest with you, there's not many departments where that officer would not face retaliation.
KASTE: If prosecutors can't make a criminal case, there's still the possibility of administrative punishment for violation of department policies. That's what internal affairs investigators do. Baltimore's investigators have often been accused of being too lenient. So last year, the department hired attorney Karen Kruger to audit its imitation clover necklace van cleef Internal Affairs Division.
KAREN KRUGER: There are some very competent detectives who are doing investigations. But they are overworked. Some of the detectives are actually assigned to other duties sometimes, which distract them from the internal investigation.
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KASTE: But internal affairs could well be where this case ends up if prosecutors decide not to bring criminal charges and barring some action by the Justice Department, which has also opened its own investigation. Martin Kaste, NPR News.
NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc., an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Accuracy and availability may vary.
And that new information Jeff spoke of now goes on to the Baltimore state's attorney. NPR's Martin Kaste reports on what happens now.
MARTIN KASTE, BYLINE: The Freddie Gray case is now in the hands of prosecutors. And when someone dies in police custody or from injuries suffered in custody, prosecutors are often faced with this question.
KASTE: Joe Key is a retired Baltimore police lieutenant who's worked on investigations of other officers. Now he's a consultant who's been an expert witness on similar cases involving people injured or killed in custody.
KEY: If an officer's actions are so grossly negligent that a reasonable person would believe that it would lead to the person's death, then that would be the standard to prove involuntary manslaughter.
KASTE: Police officials in Baltimore have already said that Freddie Gray was not buckled up in the van. That violates department policy. And it might be evidence of gross negligence, depending on other circumstances.
KEY: If, however, the officer that's driving the wagon and I'm again, hypothetically, slams on the brake on purpose; the guy's banging around replica van cleef and arpels necklace alhambra in the back of it; the wagon driver gets tired of hearing it and this is sheer speculation and he slams on the brake, they might be able to bring that to knock off van cleef and arpel necklace the level of a second degree murder charge.
KASTE: But proving intent for that second degree murder charge can be difficult. It often requires testimony from other officers. Lou Reiter is one of the country's top trainers of police internal affairs investigators. And he says in his experience, it's hard to get one cop to testify against another.
LOU REITER: I'll be honest with you, there's not many departments where that officer would not face retaliation.
KASTE: If prosecutors can't make a criminal case, there's still the possibility of administrative punishment for violation of department policies. That's what internal affairs investigators do. Baltimore's investigators have often been accused of being too lenient. So last year, the department hired attorney Karen Kruger to audit its imitation clover necklace van cleef Internal Affairs Division.
KAREN KRUGER: There are some very competent detectives who are doing investigations. But they are overworked. Some of the detectives are actually assigned to other duties sometimes, which distract them from the internal investigation.
KASTE: That's unusual for a big city police department, that the internal affairs investigators also do regular police work. Kruger thinks it risks making things a little too familiar.
KRUGER: You might be standing on the corner with the guy that, you know, tomorrow you'll be investigating.
KASTE: But internal affairs could well be where this case ends up if prosecutors decide not to bring criminal charges and barring some action by the Justice Department, which has also opened its own investigation. Martin Kaste, NPR News.
NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc., an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Accuracy and availability may vary.
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Some animal lovers got more than they bargained for at a weekend fundraiser that left a bad taste in the mouths of their pooches and a Cadboro Bay Village pet shop owner.
Erin Van El, owner operator of Paw Space Pet Boutique and Spa, said she was "dumbfounded" after learning late in the day that small sample bags of Northwest Naturals dog treats contained Styrofoam nuggets instead of freeze dried, chicken flavoured morsels. community event and fundraiser last Saturday for Raincoast Rescue Dog Society.
She said that, after speaking with a supplier's representative, she was told "you're supposed to add water" to the freeze dried treats, explaining their unusual appearance, until he took a closer look.
"He took them apart and said 'Omigawd, these are Styrofoam,' " she said, echoing concerns aired on social media by pet lovers, confirming the fake treats were bits of Styrofoam.
Avafina Pet Products acknowledged in a comment on the Paw Space Facebook page that "sadly, a very unfortunate event occurred" at the event that doubled as the store's grand opening.
It acknowledged that display Styrofoam nuggets created for demonstration purposes at trade shows had "accidentally been distributed" in place of samples of Northwest Naturals Freeze Dried Chicken.
"There is no chance of this happening again," the distributor's online apology stated. It noted only a small number were distributed and said most dogs would be unlikely to consume them.
While the company said all remaining Styrofoam nuggets had since been discarded, animal rights advocates were unsettled by the presence of a product that can be harmful to animals.
Cheyanne Cave, owner operator of Happy Tails Teeth Cleaning, said she was relieved that Jake, her miniature Pinscher and one of the first to receive a treat shortly before closing time, turned it down.
"My dog usually eats anything. He's never turned down any kind of treat," said Cave, who took four bags of the free samples before realizing what they contained.
Cave and others spread the news via social media, posting on sites such as the Victoria Dog Owners Facebook page.
The Styrofoam van cleef bracelet knock off replicas are usually used to give potential purchasers an idea of whether a nugget is the right size for their breed of replica van cleef diamond bracelet dog, Cave said.
"How many treats have been handed out already?" wondered Jesse Adams, founder of Raincoast Dog Rescue. "We don't want anyone's dog to get sick."
Adams, whose non profit did not hand out the treats at its table, said he was relieved to hear only eight people received them.
Van El, knock off van cleef bracelet who raised hundreds of dollars for the rescue society at the event, does not sell the dog treats in her store.
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"Honestly, I don't really have words for it," she said at a press conference announcing the team. "I'm just completely overwhelmed and happy to be representing my sport."
When she was a child, Van amazed people with her ability to fearlessly fly through the air. As a young adult, she was one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the organizing committee for the Vancouver Olympics, whose goal was to force the committee to let women compete. The legal effort failed because the Canadian court decided it couldn't impose local law on an international organization.
Olympic officials and other international sporting organizations argued that women's ski jumping wasn't advanced enough as a sport and that too few women competed worldwide at too low a level.
Van and other athletes believed that this amounted to discrimination.
"[It's] just pretty painful to watch people I grew up training with be able to have that opportunity, and me sit there knowing that I don't even have that opportunity because I'm not a male," Van said in 2008.
Times have changed. After years of fighting, in 2011 Van and the world's other female ski jumpers got the news they had been waiting for: The International Olympic Committee announced that women's ski jumping would make its debut at the Sochi Games. Then began a new struggle making the team.
Thousands of people came out to watch the trials in Park City in December. Van was soaking it all in.
"I try not to think about the historic nature of it today," she said. "Not put too much pressure on myself."
Over the years, representing her sport has taken a toll on her.
"She's a great and talented athlete who loves to fly, and all the rest is just stuff she has to endure," says Bill Kerig, the filmmaker behind a documentary about Van's efforts called Ready to Fly. She has suffered ulcers and sleep loss from the stress of it, he says. "It was a really tough go on her."
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Opening on day one of Semester 1, the new Swanston Street stairway has already welcomed tens of thousands of students, staff and visitors into the City campus.
Pedestrians are using the new stairway to stream into Building 8, where they are greeted by a campus map and quick, easy access to the heart of the campus.
Using bluestone as a core material and with a dramatic new concrete balustrade, the entry offers another access point to the Swanston Library off Swanston Street and direct access to the former level 4 caf, which, subject to RMIT Council sign off on the project mid year, will house The Hall.
Importantly, the new entry, one of three planned campus entries off Swanston Street, includes a new disabled access lift to level 2. It also alleviates pressure on the lifts in Building 8, which is part of the overall plan to improve pedestrian traffic through the precinct.
Paul Minifie, of Minifie Van Schaik Architects, said he was very pleased with the entry's already popular usage.
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The primary customers are road trippers, say a couple looking for something to bunk in while visiting Yosemite, but in an ad posted on CraigsList last week, Allen targeted Silicon Valley tech workers and specifically makes a call out to Googlers.
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Does Google even allow its employees to live in vans? Google didn't return messages requesting comment on their company policy, but the online world is full of stories of Googlers living on campus. A 23 year old who called himself Brandon S. famously lived in a truck at Google for many months.
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Last New Year's Day at the Penguin Swim, Dick told local TV stationKTLA that he participated year after year for good fortune.
'I do it for luck. And every year I'm lucky, so I'm not going to stop doing it,' he told the news organisation.
Eileen looked a complete natural as she prepped herself to face the chilly waters once again, standingbarefoot on the sand beside her husband and their son, Jesse, 12.
The reality star looked makeup free as she awaited the moment until she was to rush into the water.
Family tradition: Vince's father Dick Van Patten was the first to start the challenge before the remainder of his family jumped on board
When that moment arrived, the blonde had a wide smile on her face as she and her fellowparticipants jogged towards the surf.
After plunging into the water, the Daytime Emmy award winning actress emerged looking overwhelmed, no doubt adjusting from the cold.
The couple headed out of the surf hand in hand before relaxing on dry land, where her husband took a snap to remember the big day.
Eileen also shared a photo from the sunny day on Twitter.
'I know it's LA but the water is still cold! penguinswim,' she captioned an image of herself alongside her husband.
Eileen got her big television break on The Young and the Restless in 1984 playing Ashley Abbott. In 2006 she was fired from the soap drama.
She joined Days of Our Lives in 1993 when she starred as Kristen DiMera during which Lisa Rinna played Billie Reed from 1992 to 1995.
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Amanda van cleef clover necklace replica Righetti, the 30 year old van cleef and arpels necklaces fake actress who plays special agent Grace Van Pelt on CBS' hit show, The Mentalist, has confirmed that she is set to be leaving the series. Righetti says that she and co star, Owain Yeoman ('Wayne Rigsby,' her on screen love) will both be exiting the show after this season's finale.
Righetti has played special agent Van Pelt since the pilot episode of the series; The Mentalist airs Sunday nights on CBS.
The first reports of Righetti leaving the show surfaced back in August. At that time, creator Bruno Heller didn't comment on whether or not those rumors were true.
We now know that van cleef and arpels necklace imitation they probably were, though Heller has not officially commented since Righetti announced the news of her exit. As for her reason for the departure, the actress told TVLine, "I feel like the time is probably right. It's the end of one thing but the beginning of something new."
The 30 year old can't comment, however, on the specifics of how the pair will be written out of the drama and not just because she is sworn to secrecy.
Righetti explains the lovers' roles in the 'future' episodes, saying, "Basically, they have their own private security company. So we sort of are outsourced and freelanced with the FBI, and that's how we fit in.".
Amanda van cleef clover necklace replica Righetti, the 30 year old van cleef and arpels necklaces fake actress who plays special agent Grace Van Pelt on CBS' hit show, The Mentalist, has confirmed that she is set to be leaving the series. Righetti says that she and co star, Owain Yeoman ('Wayne Rigsby,' her on screen love) will both be exiting the show after this season's finale.
Righetti has played special agent Van Pelt since the pilot episode of the series; The Mentalist airs Sunday nights on CBS.
The first reports of Righetti leaving the show surfaced back in August. At that time, creator Bruno Heller didn't comment on whether or not those rumors were true.
We now know that van cleef and arpels necklace imitation they probably were, though Heller has not officially commented since Righetti announced the news of her exit. As for her reason for the departure, the actress told TVLine, "I feel like the time is probably right. It's the end of one thing but the beginning of something new."
The 30 year old can't comment, however, on the specifics of how the pair will be written out of the drama and not just because she is sworn to secrecy.
Righetti explains the lovers' roles in the 'future' episodes, saying, "Basically, they have their own private security company. So we sort of are outsourced and freelanced with the FBI, and that's how we fit in.".
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For years, politicians and policy leaders have been running the nation public education system basically by fake van cleef clover necklace sale the seat of the pants, drafting and passing legislative doctrine that mostly ignores the input from classroom teachers, research experts and public school parents.
Just the latest example of this fly by night leadership came from Rand Paul, the senator from Kentucky and expected GOP presidential contender. According to the Politico newsletter, Paul is a major push on education reform, including choice, school choice, vouchers, charter schools, you name it. love the name it proposal, don you? So reassuring to parents. we enrolling your kid in the Name It program this year. Everything will be fine. an astonishing display of incoherence, he told the Politico reporter how much he, and his children, had benefited from traditional public schools grew up and went to public schools. My kids have gone to public schools and then suggested we create something that looks nothing like them.
one person in the country who is, like, the best at explaining calculus teach every calculus class in the country, he rambled, in belief, somehow, that having million people in the classroom would ensure more children a teacher that may be having a more hands on approach. Really?
Have education policies from the Democratic Party been any better?
Apparently, most teachers don think so. As Politico, again, reported, teachers are organizing at an unprecedented level. Through their unions, teachers have amassed of millions in cash and have acquired data mining tools that let them personalize pitches to voters, in an effort to a huge get out the vote effort.
convergence, observers say, is the product not only of the unions' need to assume a defensive posture in the face of legislative and legal attacks, but also of the pressure brought by internal factions that have urged the unions to take a tougher stance against market based education policies. got teachers stirred up? How real and potent is this upsurge of their activism? Why should people who identify with progressive causes care? Salon recently posed those questions, and others, to Lily Eskelsen Garca, the new president elect of the National Education Association, the nation largest teachers union, at the recent Netroots Nation conference in Detroit.
First of all, congratulations on becoming the new NEA president.
Still president elect. I take office Sept. 1. We have an incredible president, Dennis Van Roekel, who basically said a transition period should be a transition period, not go stand in the corner. So he gave me the president elect title and told me I would take the press calls, go to Netroots, meet with Arne Duncan, start establishing where you want to go and be as vocal and as visible as you can possibly be. Our members have asked NEA to step up and take things to another level. There too much at stake for us. There are policies that need addressing and we have some of the best policy expertise in the nation, but those ideas need a face to the NEA, a face for the American teacher that is channeling the voices of these 3 million educators, and when you hear the words come out of her mouth it not just her opinion it a whole lot of teachers and support staff who are saying here an important thing for the American people to hear and an important thing imitation van cleef and arpels bracelet alhambra for Arne Duncan and President Obama to hear. So he told me to start being that voice today.
The voices of these teachers are important, aren they? And too often we don really hear their stories about what it really like to teach in American schools, do we? For instance, I was just at a meeting of the American Federation of Teachers, where a teacher told us about showing up to school one morning and finding a man had been shot to death in front of the building the night before. The body was still on the sidewalk as the kids were coming to school, and the teachers had to decide how they were going to handle this with the children. So many of our teachers are really serving as first responders for kids, aren they?
That true. So how did the teachers handle this?
They quickly had to abandon all they had planned to do with the children that day and spend the day addressing what the children had experienced, how they felt about what they had seen in front of their own school.
That was very wise of them. I taught for 10 years in a regular school. I also taught for six years at a homeless shelter two different shelter schools. The needs of these students were so different. What you just described happening to that school is never going to happen at Orchard Valley Elementary School in West Valley, Utah, the fairly affluent school where I started teaching. But think about what teachers are being called on to deal with today, depending on where they are. I was teaching in the homeless school on Sept. 11, 2001, the day the twin towers fell. I was teaching students who didn know where their parents were because these were hard to place foster kids. I had to tell my students what was going on because they saw everyone was riveted to the news and couldn avert their eyes from what was going on. These were terribly frightened kids. Look what happens these days without the social workers and the counselors, and the class size going through the roof. People say that class size may not matter to the test score, but class size mattered to me being able to have a relationship to my students and being able to put my arm around them when they were having a bad day. So God bless the teachers you describing and everybody in that school. They had to come together as a family. That the kind of thing that is going to give kids nightmares. So they had to assure the kids that their school was still going to be a safe place to come to every day. You reminded us of your experience in Utah a deeply red, conservative Republican state where the electorate stood with the teachers union to defend public schools and defeat a universal voucher bill.
That true.
But we know there are politics involved. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is a sore spot for both your union and the AFT. Both NEA and AFT have asked for Duncan resignation. Your demand was unconditional, and AFT had some very interesting conditions
Yes, The Arne Duncan Improvement Program. I love it.
So what the politics of this? Why is this happening now?
The conflict has been building for quite some time, and it just spilled over. The resolutions are not new. Similar ones have been introduced ever since Race to the Top. We really expected something better from the Department of Education after living under Child Left Un Tested. For these many years, Duncan has said, going to collaborate with teachers and not do reform to teachers we going to go forward with you I have a list of beautiful things the secretary has said about not reducing a child to a standardized test score, but then insisting, we will, by demanding that students standardized test scores be used to evaluate teachers even though there no scientific research or evidence that says there any connection.
What wrong with basing teacher evaluations on test scores?
The years I taught at the homeless shelter, I had different kinds of students than the year I taught at Orchard Elementary. Also, there was the year I had 24 kids and the year I had 39 kids. You can put that in a value added formula. It doesn work. Then there was the year I had three special ed kids with reading disabilities, and I did a bang up job with them. So the next year they gave me 12. I had all of the special ed kids that year. No other teachers had any. Just me. So in a class of 35 kids, 12 had reading disabilities. Now I guessing if we had just used test scores back then to evaluate me, you maybe would have thought that I had suddenly become a really crappy teacher that year. Test scores alone wouldn have told you what happened. They wouldn have given you an analysis of why.
Other than being unfair to individual teachers, does basing evaluations and school ratings on test scores hurt students too?
Using test scores is basically saying to educators, your number or you get punished. Or even worse, your number in El Paso, if you an administrator, and we give you a bunch of money. That would encourage the administrator to use a push out program for low scoring students like those who don speak English. That what Lorenzo Garcia did as district superintendent in El Paso, and he is in jail now. He was the first person to go to jail for lining his pocket with bonus dollars because he could hit his numbers. And he made presentations about how you can a fire under lazy teachers to get those numbers up. But what really happened is he would call individual students into his office to threaten and humiliate them with deportation if they wouldn drop out or transfer. He pushed out over 400 students in his high school. It was the El Paso Teachers Association that got the community together to talk about what van cleef and arpels necklace imitation was happening and to make sure that never happened again. That NEA chapter just won a national human and civil rights award for establishing a way for parents and teachers to alert the community when they see district administration engaging in unfair practices to students.
What does Arne Duncan think about this? Why does he still insist on basing his policies on test scores?
I spoke with Secretary Duncan yesterday [July 16]. He very upset with the NEA Representative Assembly decision to call for his resignation. We had a hard conversation. He was very straightforward with me. He felt he wasn being given enough credit from NEA for advocating for expanded early childhood education and greater access to affordable college. And it true there is no light between us on those issues. So he asked why we didn explain to people all the good things he has advocated for. I said I would send him copies of speeches I give where I been supportive of the good things the Obama administration has done, and I give him position papers from the NEA addressing the need to work closely with his department.
So what the frustration for teachers?
Here the frustration and I not blaming the delegates; I will own this; I share in their anger. The Department of Education has become an evidence free zone when it comes to high stakes decisions being made on the basis of cut scores on standardized tests. We can go back and forth about interpretations of the department policies, like, for instance, the situation in Florida where teachers are being evaluated on the basis of test scores of students they don even teach. He, in fact, admitted that was totally stupid. But he needs to understand that Florida did that because they were encouraged in their applications for grant money and regulation waivers to do so. When his department requires that state departments of education have to make sure all their teachers are being judged by students standardized test scores, then the state departments just start making stuff up. And it stupid. It absurd. It non defensible. And his department didn't reject applications based on their absurd requirements for testing. It made the requirement that all teachers be evaluated on the basis of tests a threshold that every application had to cross over. That indefensible.
So any good the Obama administration has tried to accomplish for education has been offset by the bad?
For years, politicians and policy leaders have been running the nation public education system basically by fake van cleef clover necklace sale the seat of the pants, drafting and passing legislative doctrine that mostly ignores the input from classroom teachers, research experts and public school parents.
Just the latest example of this fly by night leadership came from Rand Paul, the senator from Kentucky and expected GOP presidential contender. According to the Politico newsletter, Paul is a major push on education reform, including choice, school choice, vouchers, charter schools, you name it. love the name it proposal, don you? So reassuring to parents. we enrolling your kid in the Name It program this year. Everything will be fine. an astonishing display of incoherence, he told the Politico reporter how much he, and his children, had benefited from traditional public schools grew up and went to public schools. My kids have gone to public schools and then suggested we create something that looks nothing like them.
one person in the country who is, like, the best at explaining calculus teach every calculus class in the country, he rambled, in belief, somehow, that having million people in the classroom would ensure more children a teacher that may be having a more hands on approach. Really?
Have education policies from the Democratic Party been any better?
Apparently, most teachers don think so. As Politico, again, reported, teachers are organizing at an unprecedented level. Through their unions, teachers have amassed of millions in cash and have acquired data mining tools that let them personalize pitches to voters, in an effort to a huge get out the vote effort.
convergence, observers say, is the product not only of the unions' need to assume a defensive posture in the face of legislative and legal attacks, but also of the pressure brought by internal factions that have urged the unions to take a tougher stance against market based education policies. got teachers stirred up? How real and potent is this upsurge of their activism? Why should people who identify with progressive causes care? Salon recently posed those questions, and others, to Lily Eskelsen Garca, the new president elect of the National Education Association, the nation largest teachers union, at the recent Netroots Nation conference in Detroit.
First of all, congratulations on becoming the new NEA president.
Still president elect. I take office Sept. 1. We have an incredible president, Dennis Van Roekel, who basically said a transition period should be a transition period, not go stand in the corner. So he gave me the president elect title and told me I would take the press calls, go to Netroots, meet with Arne Duncan, start establishing where you want to go and be as vocal and as visible as you can possibly be. Our members have asked NEA to step up and take things to another level. There too much at stake for us. There are policies that need addressing and we have some of the best policy expertise in the nation, but those ideas need a face to the NEA, a face for the American teacher that is channeling the voices of these 3 million educators, and when you hear the words come out of her mouth it not just her opinion it a whole lot of teachers and support staff who are saying here an important thing for the American people to hear and an important thing imitation van cleef and arpels bracelet alhambra for Arne Duncan and President Obama to hear. So he told me to start being that voice today.
The voices of these teachers are important, aren they? And too often we don really hear their stories about what it really like to teach in American schools, do we? For instance, I was just at a meeting of the American Federation of Teachers, where a teacher told us about showing up to school one morning and finding a man had been shot to death in front of the building the night before. The body was still on the sidewalk as the kids were coming to school, and the teachers had to decide how they were going to handle this with the children. So many of our teachers are really serving as first responders for kids, aren they?
That true. So how did the teachers handle this?
They quickly had to abandon all they had planned to do with the children that day and spend the day addressing what the children had experienced, how they felt about what they had seen in front of their own school.
That was very wise of them. I taught for 10 years in a regular school. I also taught for six years at a homeless shelter two different shelter schools. The needs of these students were so different. What you just described happening to that school is never going to happen at Orchard Valley Elementary School in West Valley, Utah, the fairly affluent school where I started teaching. But think about what teachers are being called on to deal with today, depending on where they are. I was teaching in the homeless school on Sept. 11, 2001, the day the twin towers fell. I was teaching students who didn know where their parents were because these were hard to place foster kids. I had to tell my students what was going on because they saw everyone was riveted to the news and couldn avert their eyes from what was going on. These were terribly frightened kids. Look what happens these days without the social workers and the counselors, and the class size going through the roof. People say that class size may not matter to the test score, but class size mattered to me being able to have a relationship to my students and being able to put my arm around them when they were having a bad day. So God bless the teachers you describing and everybody in that school. They had to come together as a family. That the kind of thing that is going to give kids nightmares. So they had to assure the kids that their school was still going to be a safe place to come to every day. You reminded us of your experience in Utah a deeply red, conservative Republican state where the electorate stood with the teachers union to defend public schools and defeat a universal voucher bill.
That true.
But we know there are politics involved. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is a sore spot for both your union and the AFT. Both NEA and AFT have asked for Duncan resignation. Your demand was unconditional, and AFT had some very interesting conditions
Yes, The Arne Duncan Improvement Program. I love it.
So what the politics of this? Why is this happening now?
The conflict has been building for quite some time, and it just spilled over. The resolutions are not new. Similar ones have been introduced ever since Race to the Top. We really expected something better from the Department of Education after living under Child Left Un Tested. For these many years, Duncan has said, going to collaborate with teachers and not do reform to teachers we going to go forward with you I have a list of beautiful things the secretary has said about not reducing a child to a standardized test score, but then insisting, we will, by demanding that students standardized test scores be used to evaluate teachers even though there no scientific research or evidence that says there any connection.
What wrong with basing teacher evaluations on test scores?
The years I taught at the homeless shelter, I had different kinds of students than the year I taught at Orchard Elementary. Also, there was the year I had 24 kids and the year I had 39 kids. You can put that in a value added formula. It doesn work. Then there was the year I had three special ed kids with reading disabilities, and I did a bang up job with them. So the next year they gave me 12. I had all of the special ed kids that year. No other teachers had any. Just me. So in a class of 35 kids, 12 had reading disabilities. Now I guessing if we had just used test scores back then to evaluate me, you maybe would have thought that I had suddenly become a really crappy teacher that year. Test scores alone wouldn have told you what happened. They wouldn have given you an analysis of why.
Other than being unfair to individual teachers, does basing evaluations and school ratings on test scores hurt students too?
Using test scores is basically saying to educators, your number or you get punished. Or even worse, your number in El Paso, if you an administrator, and we give you a bunch of money. That would encourage the administrator to use a push out program for low scoring students like those who don speak English. That what Lorenzo Garcia did as district superintendent in El Paso, and he is in jail now. He was the first person to go to jail for lining his pocket with bonus dollars because he could hit his numbers. And he made presentations about how you can a fire under lazy teachers to get those numbers up. But what really happened is he would call individual students into his office to threaten and humiliate them with deportation if they wouldn drop out or transfer. He pushed out over 400 students in his high school. It was the El Paso Teachers Association that got the community together to talk about what van cleef and arpels necklace imitation was happening and to make sure that never happened again. That NEA chapter just won a national human and civil rights award for establishing a way for parents and teachers to alert the community when they see district administration engaging in unfair practices to students.
What does Arne Duncan think about this? Why does he still insist on basing his policies on test scores?
I spoke with Secretary Duncan yesterday [July 16]. He very upset with the NEA Representative Assembly decision to call for his resignation. We had a hard conversation. He was very straightforward with me. He felt he wasn being given enough credit from NEA for advocating for expanded early childhood education and greater access to affordable college. And it true there is no light between us on those issues. So he asked why we didn explain to people all the good things he has advocated for. I said I would send him copies of speeches I give where I been supportive of the good things the Obama administration has done, and I give him position papers from the NEA addressing the need to work closely with his department.
So what the frustration for teachers?
Here the frustration and I not blaming the delegates; I will own this; I share in their anger. The Department of Education has become an evidence free zone when it comes to high stakes decisions being made on the basis of cut scores on standardized tests. We can go back and forth about interpretations of the department policies, like, for instance, the situation in Florida where teachers are being evaluated on the basis of test scores of students they don even teach. He, in fact, admitted that was totally stupid. But he needs to understand that Florida did that because they were encouraged in their applications for grant money and regulation waivers to do so. When his department requires that state departments of education have to make sure all their teachers are being judged by students standardized test scores, then the state departments just start making stuff up. And it stupid. It absurd. It non defensible. And his department didn't reject applications based on their absurd requirements for testing. It made the requirement that all teachers be evaluated on the basis of tests a threshold that every application had to cross over. That indefensible.
So any good the Obama administration has tried to accomplish for education has been offset by the bad?
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While no direct threats were made against the schools, security measures were undertaken following threat assessment protocols that the district recently established with the RCMP.
A week of van cleef arpels earrings alhambra replica increased security at a number of Nanaimo's schools will end today after school officials and the RCMP determined the risk didn't warrant further action.
Donna fake van cleef alhambra diamond earrings Reimer, a spokeswoman for the Nanaimo Ladysmith school district, said a threat assessment concluded extra security was no longer required at Dover Bay and Nanaimo District secondary schools, Cilaire Elementary School and the district's administration centre.
A former teacher in the district, Francies Willem Van Der Voort Maarschalk, was recently sentenced to 18 months probation after pleading guilty to a charge of uttering threats to cause death or van cleef and arpels earrings alhambra replica bodily harm to staff members.
While no direct threats were made against the schools, security measures were undertaken following threat assessment protocols that the district recently established with the RCMP.