Prep football 2010 schedules: Sierra Valley League

July 11 2011 by Taylah Cosgrove in Education Sport Tips |No Comments | Tags: League

Every weekday through Thursday, we are publishing the regular-season schedules for each of the 13 high school football leagues in our coverage area.

We plan to publish one league schedule at noon every weekday for three weeks.

Take a look, and see what you think of how your team’s schedule sets up for the season.

Editor’s note: schedules are subject to change, and coaches or ADs are asked to e-mail with any updates or fixes:

SIERRA VALLEY LEAGUE

Teams: Cosumnes Oaks, El Dorado, Galt, Liberty Ranch, River City, Union Mine, Vista del Lago

COSUMNES OAKS

Division: I-IV; Enrollment: 1032; Coach: Ryan Gomes

Aug. 27 vs. Yuba City, 7:15 p.m.

Sept. 3 at Kimball-Tracy, 7:15 p.m.

Sept. 10 vs. Sheldon, 7:15 p.m.

Sept. 18 at Johnson, 1 p.m.

Sept. 24 at Union Mine#, 7:15 p.m.

Oct. 1 vs. Galt#, 7:15 p.m.

Oct. 8 at El Dorado#, 7:15 p.m.

Oct. 15 vs. Vista del Lago#, 7:15 p.m.

Oct.

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Year-round Wake County students head back to school

July 11 2011 by Lara Snider in Education News |No Comments | Tags: School, Students Head, Wake County

The summer is not over, but more than 40,000 year-round Wake County public school students headed back to class Monday.

The school system faces deep budget cuts this year, and Superintendent Tony Tata has been busy preparing teachers for the reality of the cuts.

Tata said he hoped to speak with all teachers before all schools are back in session.

Wake County school officials say this year’s state budget is $40 million less than last year. So far, the school system has laid off more than 200 clerical and administrative positions.

On Tuesday, the school board will vote on more cuts, including proposals to lay off custodial staff and to reduce teacher assistants’ contracts from 10 months to 9¼ months, effectively cutting their pay by 7.5 percent.

While year-round schools started Monday, five elementary schools that were year-round will now be on a single-track for two years. These schools – Alston Ridge Elementary, Highcroft Elementary, Lake Myra Elementary, Rand Road Elementary and Timber Drive Elementary –start Aug. 1.

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Comics in College?

July 11 2011 by Eden Osburn in University Advisory |No Comments | Tags: College

Kathleen Dunley is the faculty chair for the English department at Rio Salado College and holds a doctorate in English from the University of Colorado with a concentration in contemporary American and experimental writing. Sounds very academic, right? Not the type of person you would expect to find hanging out at Comi-Con, right? Riiiiight.

As a matter of fact, Dunley was a speaker at last years ComiCon where she caught the attention of internationally recognized cartoonist, designer and historian, Seth. This guy is so cool he doesnt even use a last name!

Dunley and Seth will be sharing the stage for the headlining panel at the San Francisco Comic Arts Conference. The conference is being held in conjunction with the WonderCon event taking place from April 1-3.

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Offered chance, few failing schools close doors

July 11 2011 by Lara Snider in Education News |No Comments

SAN FRANCISCO – Over the last decade, San Francisco’s Willie Brown Jr. College Preparatory Academy has seen enrollment plummet and student performance lag. Just 15 percent of students scored proficient in reading on state tests in 2010 and 17 percent in math.

When the school shut for summer recently, it was for good. The district has chosen the most drastic of four options — closure — in a federal program to help students at poorly performing schools. About $45,000 in federal money will pay for a counselor to help families enroll elsewhere for the coming school year. Eventually, a new school will be built at the site.

“It will provide a fresh start,” Assistant Superintendent Patricia Gray said. “This is about closing it, starting something new and having something much better.”

In the past year, more than 800 schools around the country have been identified as “persistently low achieving” by states and given a chance to receive part of a $3.5 billion federal fund — the largest ever dedicated to turning around the nation’s failing schools. Schools

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LD Debate Video: Mercer Island SA vs. Harvard-Westlake JS

July 11 2011 by Jake Frodsham in School Section |No Comments | Tags: Island, Mercer Island

This is one of the two final rounds from the Voices Round Robin 2011. The affirmative debater is Steven Adler from Mercer Island. The negative debater is Jake Sonnenberg from Harvard-Westlake.

In this round, the debaters used modified Lincoln-Douglas Debate times as an experiment to try to find ways to improve the quality of LD rounds.

Voices 2011-Finals: Mercer Island SA v Harvard-Westlake JS from Mike Bietz on Vimeo.

1AC – 5 min
CX – 2 min
1NC – 7 min
CX – 2 min
2AC – 5 min
2NC – 6 min
1AR – 4 min
NR – 5 min
2AR – 4 min

*There will be 5 minutes prep.

Proposal to merge community colleges criticized

July 11 2011 by Lara Snider in Education News |No Comments | Tags: Colleges, Community Colleges

Lawmakers are considering consolidating some of North Carolina’s 58 community colleges to save money, but college officials panned the idea Wednesday.

A recent legislative study found that the community college system is inefficient because each of the campuses is locally autonomous. They lack uniform policies and procedures, and administrative costs per student are about 50 percent higher at smaller colleges, according to the study.

Merging colleges with fewer than 3,000 students into larger campuses nearby could save the state more than $5 million a year by 2018 by combining back-office functions like payroll and information technology and eliminating some administrative positions, according to the study.

“It would be devastating to our citizens and our students,” Charlotte Griffin, board chairwoman at Martin Community College, in Williamston, told a legislative oversight committee.

Johnston Community College is large enough that it wouldn’t be directly impacted by the proposal, but President David Johnson said he felt compelled to speak out against the idea of creating more multi-campus colleges.

“If we’re changing a name and we’re merging a campus with another, you are closing that institution,” Johnson told lawmakers.

Sen.

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