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The National School Boards Association October 14 at 4:11pm Report
Have you ever considered running for your local school board? Many school board candidates are concerned parents who want to make a difference in their children’s classrooms. But before you throw your hat in the arena, or cast your vote for a candidate o...n November 3rd, consider the advice of Paula Campbell, a school board member from Nevada City, CA and President of the California School Boards Association: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ95l_oT_ Eg.
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Have you ever considered running for your local school board? Many school board candidates are concerned parents who want to make a difference in their children's classroom. But before you throw your hat ...
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Here's an interesting post from David Warlick
Here's an incredible data visualization that Brenda brought to my attention, "How different groups spend their day." http://bit.ly/P61gi
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The American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day. Here is how people over age 15 spent their time in 2008.

North Carolina School Boards Association The State Board of Education meets today. You can follow the meeting through Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/vjeter.
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Budget negotiations have completely fallen apart. The revenue package has been withdrawn. http://www.wral.com/news/local/politics/ story/5642096/
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Gov. Beverly Perdue scolded lawmakers Thursday for proposing an extra tax on individuals and businesses that didn't pay enough income tax during the year.

North Carolina School Boards Association Senate & House Dem Caucuses have agreed on rev pkg. Last area to be negotiated is education. Goal is to read the report in Mon and vote Tues & Wed.

North Carolina School Boards Association Harrison resigns as state schools CEO http://bit.ly/YJ7Yz
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Six months after Gov. Beverly Perdue plucked Bill Harrison from Cumberland County Schools to serve as chief executive of North Carolina's public education system, Harrison resigned abruptly Wednesday, citing the ongoing dispute with the state's elected education superintendent.

North Carolina School Boards Association What do you think new school board members need to know during their first 90 days on the job? Go to our discussion board and share your thoughts. Thanks.

North Carolina School Boards Association Senate caucus accepts revenue plan http://bit.ly/SXcET
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Senate Democrats agreed Wednesday to a plan to raise state revenue. None of the senators like the tax increases inherent in adding $982 million to state coffers for 2009-10, but told WRAL News they are willing to support the outline floated Tuesday by the finance committee.

North Carolina School Boards Association Senate budges on budget http://bit.ly/ts4C0
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In the ongoing stalemate between the House and Senate over a new state budget, the Senate finally blinked Tuesday.

North Carolina School Boards Association Finance package ran into some trouble this afternoon. Looks like final budget next week may not happen.

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Judge rules in Superintendent June Atkinson's favor. http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/559 3239/
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A Superior Court judge ruled Friday that Gov. Beverly Perdue cannot appoint a separate CEO for the public schools aside from the state superintendent of education.

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The NC Virtual Public School provides some great info/ideas if your interested in using technology in education. Consider joining their Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=43 333994941. I've posted Dr. Setser's recent message to the group here on Cell Phones in the Classroom. Enjoy!
This is a global group for North Carolina students, parents, and friends to learn about how to do school "their way" online through the North Carolina Virtual Public School (NCV)) and to get "free co...

For your learning this week, I have summarized a presentation from the National Education and Computing Conference https://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2009/ from my time in DC before the July 4, 2009 holiday...

North Carolina School Boards Association On July 14, 2009 NC will hold the state's first virtual school administrator's conference: http://www.wresa.org/virtual/default.htm. Also check out activities in Second Life at: http://slurl.com/secondlife/North Carolina Virtual/139/156/32.
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