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June 26, 2009
Supreme Court Says Child’s Rights Violated by Strip Search By ADAM LIPTAK, New York Times

WASHINGTON — A strip search of a 13-year-old girl by officials at her middle school violated the Constitution, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in an 8-to-1 decision.

The student, Savana Redding, had been suspected of bringing prescription-strength ibuprofen to the school, in Safford, Ariz.

Justice David H. Souter, writing for the majority, said a search of Ms. Redding’s backpack and outer garments did not offend the Fourth Amendment’s ban on unreasonable searches. But the pills in question, each no stronger than two Advils, did not justify an “embarrassing, frightening and humiliating search,” Justice Souter wrote.

I Can Do What?

Allow any high school student to take one or two online courses at any self-scheduled time and place. (mentor teacher required)

Allow any high school student to take all of his/her courses online at school with up to two of them from home.

Allow any high school student to dual enroll for all but one high school course and the high school course may be an online course.

Allow any high school student to take one or two independent study courses per semester.

Allow any high school student to take up to half of his/her courses as work-based learning.

Build project based learning courses for any high school content.

Build online project based learning courses for any high school content.

Offer college courses on the high school campus.

The Emergence of State and Local Policies to Support the Recognition of Academic Credit for CTE Coursework

STATE OF MICHIGAN  DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION LANSING 

Sunday, January 25, 2009
Nolan Finley

Survey finds children lack hope and motivation to learn.

Michigan's funk is infecting its children. More than half the high school students interviewed in the latest Your Child survey have a bleak view of life after graduation, using words such as "hard," "stressful" and "scary" to describe the future.

The students say they are most worried about failing in the real world, according to the survey conducted by EPIC-MRA of Lansing.

January Revenue Estimating Conference have forecast Michigan’s K-12 student population will shrink by nearly 2 percent in the 2010-11 school year to a total population of 1.591 million students which would be the lowest total pupil count in 15 years

January 16, 2009

Do you have questions about Dual Enrollment?

• When should students sign up?
• How does a student qualify?
• What tests do your students need to take?
• What are the most common courses students take?

Sam answers these questions and Jim explains the laws related to Dual Enrollment and how certian college classes count towards high school credits.  Listen in! 

Listen In

BY LORI HIGGINS - FREE PRESS EDUCATION WRITER

Establishes a student's absence due to parent's being deployed or return from active duty as excused absence.
Public Act 141

View here or download pdf below.

A new report by WestEd highlights three high schools—all supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—that have successfully implemented programs to prepare all of their students for college mathematics. The report, titled Rethinking High Schools: Supporting All Students to be College-Ready in Math, is the latest in the organization’s “Rethinking High School” series of reports on secondary school reform and redesign.