Report: IND. principal pay more than obvious

Posted on March 26, 2012 by admin

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP)-Indiana School Superintendent receives almost 300 more compensation than was reported in their contract, with an additional payment for benefits such as health insurance that count towards their overall salary for pension purposes, a newspaper investigation has found.

Evansville Courier

School leaders say accounting maneuvers that simple is a common practice as it tries to keep the District Superintendent is good at the time when the Education Fund to decrease.

"There are some people who try to stretch your budget and still reward people and encourage people to stay," said the Evansville Vanderburgh school Corp. Superintendent David Smith, a list of contracts on a year's salary of $ 160,000. Smith also received a $ 20,000 annually, which he says he invested.

The practice of law and the guidelines of the Indiana State teachers ' retirement fund, the pension will be a five-year average of the highest compensation for calculate pension payments monthly. The money paid for the benefits can lead to higher pension checks.

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Homecoming game? That’s so HIGH

Posted on March 21, 2012 by admin

Virginian-Pilot reporter Rich Radford consists of the Old Dominion Monarchs return to the Foreman of the field. Follow this blog for insider insights — and hit it to the question. Find stories, photos, video, breed of interactives and tim ODUBlitz.cominfo in.

The great thing about having a blog is that it can be a wonderful place to empty the notebook, rest a little bit of news, letting the public in what my vote is for national football poll … and the occasional rant a bit.

Homecoming games are so passe. So High School. Unnecessary, especially in the ODU.

Indeed, all people have the game homecoming. Virginia Tech is next weekend against Boston College. It is also homecoming this weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia where Georgia Tech is hosting so obviously it is … needs College engine.

But look, choose patsy homecoming game is not the case in the college ranks. What happens is that the school is seen in mid-October and see what team they are playing that week and that have been considered homecoming.

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Ind. District bus routes that end up facing lawsuits

Posted on March 16, 2012 by admin

Indianapolis woman who sued the school district which stopped running free school buses can join thousands of parents, said his lawyer.

Lora About filed a lawsuit against the Franklin Township School Tuesday in Marion County Court. His lawyer said he planned to seek class action status for the suit, which can then be over 8,000 families in the school district.

The district sold the bus this summer for a cooperative education now provide transportation. About disabled, but like thousands of parents he drives his two sons to and from school because he was unable to pay nearly $ 50-per-child cost monthly.

About, 38, had initially wanted the district to put his two sons, ages 10 and 13, special needs bus because they both have a serious medical condition, he said. But after the fight went nowhere, he said he decided to expand his business

If a judge grants class action status for lawsuits, it's going to be over

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Harper college student charged with videotaping in woman’s bathroom

Posted on March 11, 2012 by admin

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Elk Grove Village men were arrested Wednesday for using a camera phone to video of women in the restroom at Harper College in Palatine, authorities said.

The authorities have accused of Christopher Byers, 21, of the 1000 block of Florida Lane in Elk Grove Village, unauthorized video recording, a crime that carries a penalty of grade 4 up to three years in prison or probation.

Byers appears in Rolling Meadows courthouse Thursday morning where a bond set at $ 2,000, he posted a 10 per cent.

Authorities said Byers, a student in College, sitting on the toilet stall in college women s s building d at about 10: 50 PM Wednesday, made a recording of the victims women next to the kiosk.

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After the new law, adult education enrollment drops

Posted on March 6, 2012 by admin

In the four months since Florida began charging tuition for programs adult education, enrollment has dropped dramatically, prompting concern from some lawmakers that the legislature may have gone too far.

Since the need not only a lesson, but also the documentation to determine residency, registration in adult education classes are offered at community colleges have dropped 45 percent and enrollment is offered through several school districts was down 38 percent, according to preliminary data by State Education Departments.

The last legislative session, lawmakers took a close look at charging for adult education programs, which are usually offered free of charge through the school districts and colleges, as they grapple with a big budget shortfall.

Normally, students who do not have a high school diploma are taking courses to study for GED them, learning the language, or the United Kingdom takes the basic adult education classes. The new law was passed that required on-country students to pay $ 45 for half a year or $ 30 per term in the school for the course. Non-paying three times the amount.

Senator Evelyn Lynn, R-Ormond Beach, said ed's intention to ensure students are mature "have some skin in the game", and a clamp on the low level of completion for the course for free. "(Mature students) it is necessary that education, but they also have to look at the value of it and which is worth something," said Lynn.

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