Today I’m posting an excerpt from my novel, Chain Gang Elementary, that deals with issues of race and testing.
Chain Gang Elementary storyline: After a murder at Bonaire Elementary, Richard and Anna Lee Gray seek a good school for their son Nick in a safe neighborhood. Their search leads them to Malliford, a [...]
What freedoms are Obama trying to take away from us? Well, here’s one, and it’s not made up: The right of the press to aggressively investigate wrongdoing by the government.
This excerpt comes from a must-read article in the Huffington Post by Dan Froomkin and Michael Calderone about the Obama Administration’s repeated attempts to crack [...]
I don’t think I’ve had three PTA embezzlement stories on the Chain Gang Blog’s front page before. For the record, it stinks. This case comes out of Culver City, California and involves $23,000 in missing funds. The twist in this case: Former El Rincon Elementary School PTA treasurer Cheryl Noda has been charged with commercial burglary in addtion to the [...]
Continue Reading →Maybe she should have thought about that earlier.
Aleta Taylor, ex-treasurer of Roosevelt Elementary School PTA in Olympia, Washington, has been charged with stealing nearly $15,000 from the PTA over two years. Taylor, 40, was the PTA treasurer 2007-09 and 2010-11. Her husband, Paul Taylor served in that role 2009-10.
From The Olympian:
(Current PTA [...]
Continue Reading →From Inside Higher Education:
People with higher degree attainment and their families have healthier lives, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among the findings:
In 2007-2010 in households where the head of household had less than a high school education, 24 percent of boys and 22 percent of girls were [...]
Continue Reading →It may be hard to work up sympathy for the guy, but it does appear that the Paulding County School Board upped his punishment because he appealed his case and talked to the media. That ain’t cool, nor is it legal. So sayeth the judge.
From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
A federal judge in Rome on Thursday [...]
Continue Reading →Montclair is six miles from my house. The child was shot near an elementary school he didn’t attend. In fact, police say he was committing hookie when the shooting occurred.
From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
A child shot behind a DeKalb County elementary school late Thursday morning was playing hooky with two other youths and was [...]
Continue Reading →This is a student-standing-in-front-of-tank moment, and worth noting.
The purge continues in Rome, Georgia. More than 50 Shorter University faculty members have resigned rather than sign the evangelical Christian school’s mandatory ”personal lifestyle statement” that requires church membership, private alcohol consumption, if any, and rejection of adultery, premaritial sex, and homosexuality. (See [...]
Continue Reading →(Originally posted Jan. 17, 2012)
The Scream Rooms. Sounds like a horror movie title, but it turns out to be school policy in Connecticut.
And we wouldn’t have known about them if a PTA president hadn’t stepped up and gone public. Kudos to Apryl Dudley, then. We need more like her.
I first heard about [...]
Continue Reading →It appears that another PTA mom has succumbed to the lure of easy money. This time, it’s a North Carolina woman in the crime spotlight. Brandy Marie Jones, president of the Brentwood Elementary School PTA in Fayetteville, has been charged by the Cumberland County sheriff’s office department with embezzling more than $3,000 from the school’s [...]
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