Here's an update on the late campaign finance report issue involving Wake Schools Community Alliance.
The state Board of Elections is investigating the complaint that Perry Woods filed against the WSCA for not having filed updated reports. But according to Wake County Board of Elections officials, it looks to have been a result of a series of innocent mistakes.
The WSCA had received a notice warning that the group had failed to file a mid-year report. Barbara Sucato, campaign finance manager at the Wake Board of Elections, said she had mistakenly told the group that the report was not necessary.
As for the 35-day pre-election report, the WSCA did attempt to file the report electronically by Sept. 1 deadline. But the group used an incorrect e-mail address at the state Board of Elections, which would have forwarded it to the county.
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Wake's schools need new priorities -- and more money
Fri, 09/18/2009 - 17:06 — AngelaWhttp://www.northraleighnews.com/news/story/1326.html
Wow....she said it better
Fri, 09/18/2009 - 19:02 — SouthEastWakeMomWow....she said it better than I ever could. And she chairs the District 3 Advisory Council for the BOE. Do you think we could get the BOE to actually listen to their Advisory Councils???? October 6th can't come fast enough......
one might wonder if Mr.
Fri, 09/18/2009 - 19:05 — AngelaWone might wonder if Mr. Hill would agree with her....
How could he?
Fri, 09/18/2009 - 21:20 — TrailerParkGirl"To adopt these best practices, we first need two things:
1) A change in our cultural belief that children of poverty cannot be educated."
Mr. Hill is a firm believer in the >40% F&R schools can't be healthy theory (i.e. F&R students cannot be educated).
OT-since this one is moot anyway....
Fri, 09/18/2009 - 15:08 — AngelaWNot Too Adept at the Monkey Bars
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/09/16/03fryshman.h29.html?tkn=TTQF9vgD1egyRhVYQl2i91CGgh8Otalh6FSU
We must think about children as individuals, rather than members of an undifferentiated whole. Children have different likes, talents, desires, and potential, and must be treated as such.
In the end, we must find strategies and educational arrangements for teaching young people according to their needs, rather than according to ours.
Some of this sounded familiar
Fri, 09/18/2009 - 15:59 — TrailerParkGirlSome of this sounded a bit familiar. There was an educator who figured out these things many years ago.
"If only children would have been allowed to learn how to learn! If only the classroom had afforded flexible programs to take care of students’ individual differences for human growth along the way!
Why all the suffering for youngsters who do not learn? They suffer because they failed from the start. Failure experienced over and over again suffocates the growing individual. We must go to the start of the educational process; and wherever we start we must start with growth." -- Grace Pilon, from 50 Years of the Workshop Way, 1986
She also believed that 100% of students can learn academically regardless of environmental factors.
...
Fri, 09/18/2009 - 14:19 — SideburnsWhew -- Thank heavens that Perry was watching. All this hub-bub about filing correctly has drawn even more attention to the efforts of WSCA and the need to un-politicize the education of our children.
I can feel the tremors -- change is a-comin'!
We voters must remember this
Fri, 09/18/2009 - 08:07 — Dadof3Trying to shoot down a wet-behind-the-ears, God-honest grassroots effort over a detail that was the result of poor guidance. Not very pretty.
We Wake County voters must remember the cynical machinations of Perry Woods, the "Eddie Haskell" of Wake County Politics. We need to duct tape this albatross to any campaign that seeks his consultancy.
You can not have special
Fri, 09/18/2009 - 09:41 — user12345You can not have special rules for some people ... process was not followed... Perry reported ... corrections made ... it makes WSCA more creditable and transparent ... no penalty imposed, the general public could care less...
"Special rules"
Fri, 09/18/2009 - 10:55 — Dadof3It was Perry that raised the issue, and choose to raise the issue, not the "system" itself. Don't be naive in your gambit to reframe every stinking thing you comment on.
I would not depend on the
Fri, 09/18/2009 - 11:23 — user12345I would not depend on the "system" (government) to be self reporting (aka financial meltdown) and correcting ... a free country depends on alert individuals to do their duty when rules are not being followed ...
"Alert individuals to do their duty"
Fri, 09/18/2009 - 13:11 — Dadof3Yep, Germany and USSR had such "alert" individuals a little while back, too. My point remains.
hmm ... does not sound like
Fri, 09/18/2009 - 14:01 — user12345hmm ... does not sound like you went to a school with an honor code ...
If your point is (ironically noted, btw)
Fri, 09/18/2009 - 15:27 — Dadof3that is is lousy when people make horrible attributions to you when they don't know you, maybe now you know how it feels when you write your calumnious tripe?
don't blame it on naivete,
Fri, 09/18/2009 - 11:15 — AngelaWdon't blame it on naivete, more like an odious attempt to "spin"
desperate times, desperate
Fri, 09/18/2009 - 08:26 — AngelaWdesperate times, desperate measures, I suppose....the status quo is feeling the challenge and cannot compete on "facts", must resort to...well....this.