| Boarding houses likened to 'mental health slums'
Hundreds of boarding homes across Dallas warehouse the elderly, the disabled and the mentally ill in privatized bedlam. They are what the head of the region's mental health system flatly calls "mental health slums." City officials believe at least 350 unlicensed, unregulated board and care homes house 2,500 people across Dallas – probably more. "Pretty much, you can open up a boarding home anywhere you want to, stuff as many people in there as you can, keep them at 85 degrees or worse in the summer and 50 degrees in the winter. You can nearly feed them dog food and get away with it," said one veteran caseworker in North Texas' privatized mental health system. "So many of the residents are clearly psychotic. We have clients who think they're God," the worker said.
Safford Schools increases salaries, adds bus drivers
After more than five hours of deliberation in executive session last week, the Safford School Board emerged with numbers and staffing in answer to the district's Meet and Confer Committee's re-quests. The district also contracted with a new food service company.Safford certified staff originally asked for teachers' base salaries to increase from $26,500 a year to $28,500. They received a base pay raise to $28,019, the 3.2-percent increase for each cell of the salary schedule given by legisla-tive action in 2006 and an increase for each cell of $1,600. .
Pearson School Systems Helps Rebuild Post-Katrina Community: Not ...
FOLSOM, Calif., April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Pearson School Systems, a business of Pearson Education-the world's leading integrated education company-recently hosted its second annual Advanced Learning Summit in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Advanced Learning Summit - a four-day exclusive training event for the nation's top PowerSchool Student Information System (SIS) administrators - is taught by PowerSchool's top developers, trainers, and analysts. This course is aimed at giving "the best of the best" a detailed and extensive "behind the scenes" view into PowerSchool. After spending a few days working through the advanced training curriculum, PowerSchool Administrators and trainers seized the opportunity to give back to the community, by applying their knowledge in a practical way.
Open Letter To Uri Avnery, Noam Chomsky And Jimmy Carter
This essay is prompted by a piece, Bed of Sodom, by Uri Avnery (1), posted on the Gush Shalom website on April 21st. It is amusing and instructive that the article's name provides its organizing metaphor, taken from the Old Testament, but without acknowledging that the story is a Jewish version of the older Greek myth that tells the tale of one Procrustes, who insisted that one size fit all. The piece is a spirited defense of the two-state solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, with Avnery contesting that the now popular comparison of Israel with the former South Africa is a force fit. No wonder Martin Luther said that "reason is a whore." For those who don't know, Gush Shalom is the Israeli Peace Bloc, the oldest and largest, and one might say, most prestigious "progressive" group on the Israeli Left.
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