You just know the Frogs have only increased their disdain for us, if that is indeed possible. And why shouldn't they? The average American is working two and half jobs, gets two weeks off, and has all the employment security of a one-armed trapeze artist. The Bush Administration has preached the "ownership society" to America: own your house, own your retirement account; you don't need the government in your way. So Americans mortgaged themselves to the hilt to buy overpriced houses they can no longer afford and signed up for 401k programs that put money where, exactly? In the stock market! Where rich Republicans fleeced them.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
09/21/08 Greenwich Political Wire
You just know the Frogs have only increased their disdain for us, if that is indeed possible. And why shouldn't they? The average American is working two and half jobs, gets two weeks off, and has all the employment security of a one-armed trapeze artist. The Bush Administration has preached the "ownership society" to America: own your house, own your retirement account; you don't need the government in your way. So Americans mortgaged themselves to the hilt to buy overpriced houses they can no longer afford and signed up for 401k programs that put money where, exactly? In the stock market! Where rich Republicans fleeced them.
09/21/08 Around Here When Bill Clark Says Frog We Jump. When The Scribe Of Greenwich Says Jump We Ask,"How High"?
Bill "The Scribe Of Greenwich" Clark says......
I agree.
Can you find out what happened to the June survey than many of us filled out about the educational system here in town? One of the questions was, should Betty Sternberg lose her job? I was told at one point that she had agreed to resign if that's what the survey said.
The survey was machine-readable, filled out with #2 pencils (like the SAT exam). Surely the results are now available over 3 1/2 months later?
Oh - and if you check out the Hartford Courant web site for today (9/21/08), you will see a video clip on the front page, "Greenwich Losses Affect Everyone." It features yours truly and First Selectman Peter Tesei. Is there any way you can download the clip to "Greenwich Roundup?" I think your readers would find it interesting.
Comment:
That survey may be stored inside Betty Sternberg's Office safe, unless the Greenwich Board Of Education has ordered it shredded.
Seriously, the survey is a public document that anyone can request via the freedom of information laws. The Board of education is required to respond less than 5 Business days.
On the fifth day, if there is no response then a parent or taxpayer could ask the state freedom Of information commission to force the Board Of Education to release the document.
Maybe, Betty will get fined by the freedom of information guys like Jim Lash was. Or maybe it will Nancy since she is the the Board Of Education Chairman.
The reason there is so many problems at the Board Of Education is because there is no transparency and accountability.
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09/21/08 Greenwich Press Release - The Flying Psychologist Of Greenwich
PRWEB
The Civil Air Patrol is the official auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force and is a nonprofit organization with more than 56,000 members nationwide. CAP performs 90 percent of continental U.S. inland search and rescue missions and was credited with saving 103 lives in 2007. A purely volunteer organization, CAP also performs homeland security, disaster relief and counter-drug missions at the request of federal, state and local agencies. Its members play a leading role in aerospace education and serve as mentors to nearly 22,000 young people currently participating in cadet programs. CAP has been performing missions for America for more than 66 years.
For more information about the local Civil Air Patrol visit
09/21/08 Greenwich Press Release
“We see the Park Angels as the heart and soul of our whole cause,” says Jim Martin, executive director of the Charleston Parks Conservancy. “Our parks and trees will be here long after all of us are gone, and we are hoping to create a movement that will last generations, as well. We absolutely can’t do that without the passionate commitment of these dedicated Charlestonians.”
THE RELEASE:
"Park Angels" Take Flight
PR.com
The Charleston Parks Conservancy, an organization dedicated to upgrading City of Charleston parks and green spaces and rallying community support and pride behind the effort, is adding a few more angels to the Holy City.
Charleston, SC, September 21, 2008 --(PR.com)-- The Charleston Parks Conservancy, an organization dedicated to upgrading City of Charleston parks and green spaces and rallying community support and pride behind the effort, is adding a few more angels to the Holy City. The organization has selected six volunteers to become its lead “park angels” who will head the charge to create a sustained movement behind preserving and beautifying Charleston parks.....
... designer of fabrics, Kappes has lived all over the world, including Paris, New York and China. In her hometown of Greenwich, Conn., Kappes was a member of the Green Fingers Garden Club, where she directed the annual flower show. Park Angel Cathy ...
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09/21/08 Greenwich Education Press Release - Greenwich Alliance For Education
The alliance will use the occasion to introduce its 2008 grant recipients, which include Hamilton Avenue, New Lebanon and Riverside elementary schools; Western Middle School; Greenwich High School; the Greenwich Boys and Girls Club; and SoundWaters Inc.
This year the alliance will distribute nearly $110,000 in grant funding to those seven recipients. To R.S.V.P. to the reception, call (203) 698-7730 or e-mail info@greenwichalliance.com.
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09/21/08 Greenwich Time News Links For Sunday
Hedge funds can 'hang in
WASHINGTON - When it comes to his legislative priorities in the 110th Congress, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama has had no better friend in Connecticut than .....
Tahira Piracha is a snowbird. However, instead of escaping to Florida every winter, the Stamford resident travels to Islamabad, Pakistan.
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09/21/08 Greenwich Obituary Notice
Cape Cod Times
...Felicity Johnston Craven, 57, of Chatham, died unexpectedly at Cape Cod Hospital on Thursday, Sept., 18, 2008. Born in Greenwich, Conn., a daughter of the late Rev. Arnold B. Craven and Primrose (Johnston) Craven, she lived in Chatham since 1963 ...
09/21/08 Greenwich Educationline: Greenwich Time Cub Reporter Colin Gustafson Can't See That Failed Aministrators Are Causing Low Test Scores
By Colin Gustafson
Only a fool would call these results mixed. Here's the truth. That giant sucking sound that taxpayers and parents hear is the sound of failed school administrators flushing their children down the drain.
The Department Of Justice may soon visit the school district, because of the school administrator's failure to start to close the growing the achievement gap between white students and lower-income minorities.
The Greenwich School Administrators are repeatedly failing to address the longtime "gender gap" between boys and girls in math. and English.
Greenwich School Administrators allowed elementary and middle-school writing scores to fall for a second year on the Connecticut Mastery Test. (The percentage of students at goal tumbled from 81.2 in 2006, to 79.8 in 2007, to 77.2 in 2008. The "goal" to be satisfactory performance. That means that 23% of Greenwich elementary and middle-school students can not satisfactorily pass the State Of Connecticut's writing test.)
Elementary scores were a disaster. Only North Mianus School was a success story, as it was the only elementary program in the district where proficiency levels increased on the math, reading and writing portions of the CMT.
In 2007-08, Hamilton Avenue School posted the lowest proficiency levels of all elementary schools on every CMT test. It also saw the biggest year-to-year declines in proficiency, with the percentage of at goal students in the writing CMT plummeting from 72.7 percent to 48.1 percent between 2007 and 2008.
The number of black students reaching goal in that test dropped to 32.3 percent in 2008, lower than the at-goal percentages of Hispanics (54.2), whites (82.8) and Asians (87.9).
The poorest and most disadvantaged members of Greenwich Society are being screwed over as failed school administrators cash big fat paychecks.
The drop was so sharp - down from 71.6 percent reaching "goal" in 2007 to 61.3 percent this year, more than a 10-point decline and a five-year low - that one school district administrator, John Curtin, initially suspected there had been an error in scoring the exams of Greenwich students.
If not an error, perhaps other districts with a similar demographic make-up had fared similarly, he thought. Almost none had.
"We haven't found a smoking gun," Curtin said recently. "We were an anomaly."
The decline comes on the heels of slow-and-steady progress in the number of GHS students achieving goal, which, in the four years from 2004 to 2007, jumped from 67.3, to 69, to 71 and 71.6.
There was also a sharp drop in the percentage of 10th-graders scoring at the "advanced" level, which fell more than 13 points, to 28.2 percent this year, from 41.4 percent last year. Students scoring at the "proficient" level also dropped, though by a smaller margin, from 94.1 to 91.1.
The decline in performance is in sharper focus now that the state Department of Education has cited the district for failing to make "adequate yearly progress," in part, due to lackluster reading results at Greenwich High and Central Middle schools.....
There will be no overhaul to the curriculum, however, in response to what could be a one-year blip in reading performance, he added. "Sometimes anomalous things happen one year that don't happen again the next."
The Board of Education will meet Oct. 23 to discuss a yet-to-be-released "monitoring report" on reading scores
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09/21/08 Greenwich Sportsline: Greenwich Whitted Darians Comanding 17 Point Lead Down To A Five Point Loss
QUOTE:
"They have their tradition and everything, but we had the heart in this game," said Darien senior Nikki Dysenchuk, who scored on a pair of short runs in the second quarter helped the Blue Wave (2-0) build 24-7 halftime lead. "We took it to them in the first half and they didn't know what hit them."
THE STORY:
Darien shocks Greenwich 31-25
The conservative stuff just wasn't working. Though Darien was trying desperately trying to run out the clock on Saturday's FCIAC clash, Greenwich still kept coming.
It whittled the Blue Wave's once commanding 17-point lead to a mere five with plenty of time remaining.
So with his team and its upset hopes facing third-and-long from the Greenwich 35 yard-line, Darien coach Rob Trifone thought a more progressive approach might save the day.
"They outplayed us and they were better than us today," Greenwich coach Rich Albonizio said. "And we showed a lack of discipline."
Erik Camacho's 10-yard touchdown pass from Lefflbine with 1:47 left became moot when Michael Gencarelli recoverd the ensuing onside kick for Darien.
"We got a little nervous in the second half with No. 84 (Grant) jumping over everybody," Dysenchuk said. "But we hung in there. Kosnick's catch was amazing. It was incredible.
"This means everything. It's the first step to states. We can't wait."
GAME STATS:
Darien 31, Greenwich 25
GREENWICH 7 0 0 18 — 25
DARIEN 9 15 0 7 — 31
D — John Gardner 27 field goal
G — Mike Lefflbine 1 run (Oliver Ostrowski kick)
D — Matt Wheelock 12 run (kick failed)
D — Nikki Dysenchuk 4 run (Brian Kosnik pass Dysenchuk)
D — Dysenchuk 2 run (Gardner kick)
G — Matt Grant 23 pass from Lefflbine (kick failed)
G — Grant 25 pass from Lefflbine (pass failed)
D — Kosnik 35 pass from Wheelock (Gardner kick)
G — Erik Camacho 10 pass from Lefflbine (kick failed)
Records: Greenwich 1-1, Darien 2-0
Source: Connecticut Post
Reporter: SEAN PATRICK BOWLEY
Source URL: http://www.connpost.com/ci_10519308?source=most_emailed
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09/21/08 Greenwich Newsline; Firefighters Trade Three Ring Binders In For Laptop
The goal of the first phase is to install 10 to 14 of the computers - Panasonic Toughbook laptops that use HTE Sungard software.....
"That gives us a layout of the building, or the approximate square footage of the building, which helps us figure out the amount of water needed to extinguish a fire," Kick said.
As the installations move forward, Kick said firefighters are being trained on how to use the new equipment. There has been one training session so far, and more are scheduled in the coming weeks, Kick said.
"This will be a constant program- there will always be changes and new technology coming up and it's a constant job to upgrade, enhance and provide the information to the units," Kick said.
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