12.06.99 - Ed.Net Briefs The debate was provoked by a louisiana case in which two Jefferson Parish parents Tony Mauro, Court debates funding for parochial schools USA Today, http://www.edbriefs.com/usa99-00/12.06.99usa.html
Extractions: http://www.ccclearn.com/ Ed.Net Briefs is a free weekly online education newsletter. Each issue is filled with summaries of the week's important education stories, including the source citation for those who want more information. Ed.Net Briefs is sent to subscribers via e-mail and posted here on the Simpson Communications Web site each week. RECEIVE A FREE SUBSCRIPTION BY E-MAIL . Fill out this online subscription request form and you will receive Ed.Net Briefs via e-mail each Monday morning. QUESTIONS? Contact us via e-mail. http://www.nytimes.com SUPREME COURT DEBATES PAROCHIAL SCHOOL FUNDING The Supreme Court is trying to develop a formula for deciding how much public aid to parochial schools is too much. The debate was provoked by a Louisiana case in which two Jefferson Parish parents challenged a federal program that loans instructional equipment, including computers, to parochial schools. A federal appeals court panel struck down the program as a violation of the First Amendment, which prohibits government establishment of religion. The appeals judges said they approached the case with caution because of the Supreme Court's confusing precedents in the area. In a string of cases over three decades, the Supreme Court has upheld some forms of aid to parochial schools, such as textbooks, but not others, evaluating each program differently. A decision in the case could come any time before the end of the Court term next summer. Tony Mauro, "Court debates funding for parochial schools" USA Today, December 2, 1999, 11A
New Orleans And Louisiana Music Calendar to students from public, private, and parochial schools across Louisianathrough schoolday, afterschool, weekend, and summer sessions. http://www.wwoz.org/cgi-bin/events2/events_search.pl?8=New Orleans Center for Cr
State/Church Bulletin, Freethought Today, September 1997 US District Judge Marcel Livaudais ruled against louisiana s Tangipahoa Parish to offer onsite remedial help to students attending parochial schools. http://www.ffrf.org/fttoday/1997/sept97/sc_bulletin.html
Extractions: The Ohio chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit in early August requesting that the state motto"With God, all things are possible"be declared unconstitutional because it promotes Christianity. The motto, adopted in 1959, paraphrases a quote from Jesus Christ found in the Gospels of Mark and Matthew. Ohio Tax Commissioner Roger Tracy, who has the motto printed on state tax forms, said: "I've been waiting for these First Amendment banana-heads to sue. In America, we believe God exists." The Capitol Square board unanimously approved a plan in December to engrave the state seal and motto outside the Statehouse. The suit seeks to block the placement of the motto on Capitol Square Plaza or any other part of the Statehouse grounds and its future use as a state motto. "While encouraging students to maintain their belief in the Bible, or in God, may be a noble aim, it cannot be one in which the public schools participate, no matter how important this goal may be its supporters," Livaudais wrote. "Section 7.3 describes the theory of evolution. The theory of evolution includes ideas about origin and development of life which have not been conclusively proven. Scientists continue to make new discoveries which change their ideas about the theory of evolution."
Collections Overview In 1942, louisiana State University s General Extension Program picked up theproject private, and parochial schools; a few are with college professors. http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/williams/collections/overview/
Extractions: The Acadian Handicraft Project existed from 1942 until 1962. It grew out of an earlier effort by the General Education Board to support French language and culture in Louisiana. In 1942, Louisiana State University's General Extension Program picked up the project. Louise Olivier (d. 1962), served as the Extension Program's field representative and purchased crafts, mostly textiles, from Acadian women and marketed them throughout the state. Interviewers Pam Rabalais of LSU's School of Human Ecology and Yvonne Olivier conducted these interviews with women who participated in the project for the Southeastern Crafts Revival at the University of South Carolina's McKissick Adrienne Lacour Series Interviews conducted by Adrienne Lacour for a graduate class in landscape architecture on land use patterns and community history in the predominately African-American community of Four Corners, located south of New Iberia, Louisiana. Topics covered include growing and processing sugar cane; South Coast Plantation and other area plantations; plantation stores and debt peonage; recreation, including gambling and baseball; impact of World War II; and religion. Americans in Vietnam Oral History Project LSU Professor Beatrice Spade and student conducted these interviews with American servicemen and a few Vietnamese people now living in America. The interviewees discuss their experiences in Vietnam and their attitudes toward American involvement in Southeast Asia. In addition, the soldiers, representing a variety of ranks and all branches of the military, discuss their military training and contact with the Vietnamese people and their culture, and the civilians relate their background and the experience of immigrating to the United States.
Extractions: Whats Inside Charter schools impact unclear Open enrollment flourishing Home schooling works for some Vouchers still controversial School Choice Vol. 1, No. 1, May 1999 Education Commission of the States 707 17 th Street, Suite 2700 Denver, CO 80202-3427 303-299-3600 fax 303-296-8332 www.ecs.org School choice is one of the fastest-growing innovations in public education. Today, nearly one in 10 American public-school students participates in some form of choice, ranging from charter schools to vouchers to open-enrollment programs that allow youngsters to attend any public school within or, in some cases, outside their district. Proponents of school choice contend that such programs will bring about change and improvement by forcing public schools to compete for students, and will expand and diversify the range of learning opportunities, experiences and environments available to students. Critics of school choice, on the other hand, argue that using marketplace reforms in the education arena treats learning as a commodity and has the potential to jeopardize the cherished American ideal of providing a quality education to all children. Whatever the pros and cons, the school-choice movement continues to gain ground. Increasingly state choice programs include a mix of inter- and intradistrict enrollment options, charter schools and home schooling. Several states are trying out or considering programs that provide cash certificates, tax credits or tax deductions to allow students to attend any school of their choice whether public or private.
NSTA WebNews Analysis: School Vouchers children to private or parochial schools at taxpayer expense generated newspaper louisiana lawmakers, on the other hand, have not been supportive of http://www.nsta.org/main/news/stories/education_story.php?news_story_ID=48345
Extractions: The Elementary School Grade schools produce men and women leaders Top principal named M. Germaine Roussel to get NCEA award Grade Schools Produce Men and Women Leaders "Give me the child of today and I care not for the rest of the world," someone once said, "for today's child will be the rest of the world tomorrow." Not only did the nuns teach girls who became women, but they taught, inspired and challenged boys who became men. Shortly after their arrival in 1860 the Dominican sisters at St. John's accepted boys too young for the Christian Brothers.When yellow fever and hardship forced the brothers to leave, the sisters agreed to teach "boys of manageable age." Among the alumni of their coeducational parochial schools are priests, bishops, business men, lawyers, doctors, judges, professors, engineers and others; they honor the sisters who awakened them to the magic of knowledge and the gift of God's love. Elementary school teachers have the first and the longest opportunity to reach children. "Give me the child of today and I care not for the rest of the world," someone once said, "for today's child will be the rest of the world tomorrow."
Americans United SUPREME COURT HEARS ARGUMENTS IN IMPORTANT SUPREME COURT HEARS ARGUMENTS IN IMPORTANT parochial SCHOOL AID CASE Helms,was originally brought 14 years ago by louisiana parents who challenged http://www.au.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr006=t4rrz2yng1.app7b&abbr=pr&page=Ne
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The Role Of Archbishop Joseph F Rummel led the movement towards the integration of the parochial school system . At this time, the louisiana Legislature, in opposition to the Supreme http://www.loyno.edu/history/journal/1993-4/Smestad.html
Extractions: The Role of Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel in the Desegregation of Catholic Schools in New Orleans by John Smestad Jr. "We are still convinced that enforced racial discrimination inflicts incalculable mental and emotional cruelty and pain, physical and social privations, educational and economic restrictions upon 16 millions of our fellow citizens, and that these discriminations are unjustifiable violations of the Christian way of life and the principles of our American heritage" (Rummel, "Blessed" 1). These words of Most Reverend Joseph Francis Rummel, the Archbishop of New Orleans from 1935 through 1963, reflect the beliefs which guided him in directing the racialintegration of all Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of New Orleans. An historical analysis of Rummel's role in the civil rights struggle shall be made through the presentation of the background of Catholic school segregation in New Orleans, a brief biography of the man, and the events between 1953 and 1963 which led to the actual racial integration of the Catholic schools. The Background of the Struggle Desegregation in New Orleans In 1954 the United States Supreme Court handed down its decision in Brown v Board of Education. The ruling held that segregation, as espoused in the "separate but equal" doctrine of 1896, was unconstitutional. Following that sweeping decision, Archbishop Rummel began formulating plans for the racial integration of parochial schools. At this time, the Louisiana Legislature, in opposition to the Supreme Court ruling, passed laws reaffirming and requiring segregation in all schools (McCulla 63). Rummel protested these actions, but "promised that desegregation of Catholic schools would not be rushed into" (McCulla 66).
Extractions: (Photo by Peter Finney Jr.) Voters overwhelmingly favor giving parents the choice to remove their children from failing public schools and place them in better-performing schools, a statewide poll conducted by Dr. Ed Renwick of Loyola University indicates. The poll results were released last week as the state Legislature convened in Baton Rouge to consider various bills that would provide low-income parents with the opportunity to seek a better education for their children. Louisiana Citizens for Educational Freedom, a statewide organization committed to providing choice in education, and the seven dioceses of the state of Louisiana are backing a "Parental Choice in Education" bill that gives parents with children in schools identified as "failing" by the state an opportunity for a state-funded educational scholarship to pay for tuition at a private, parochial or charter school. The legislation also would allow parents to keep their children in the failing public school but with extra tutorial assistance. Parents also could simply move their child from a failing public school to a public school of their choice.
Are School Vouchers Constitutional? Secular school books were allowed in the parochial school. It should be notedthat louisiana had a large Catholic population which could account for this http://members.tripod.com/~candst/tnppage/vouch3.htm
Extractions: Separation of Church and State Home Page In a word, no , at least when they are used to pay for sectarian education. Vouchers, since they involve direct government funding of private school tuition, violate the Constitution whenever the private school involved uses this money to pay for religious instruction. Since the passage of the 14th Amendment the Supreme court has gradually made most of the Bill of Rights applicable to the states. The states, in other words, must now obey the guarantees embodied in the Bill of Rights, including the Constitutional prohibition against establishment of religion. This article explains the history of Supreme Court decisions relevant to school vouchers since the passage of the 14th Amendment. Briefly, our position is that, even though the Supreme Court has not gone far enough in enforcing the prohibition of religious establishment (note our criticisms below), there is no question that, on the basis of the law, voucher systems and other schemes for providing direct financial aid to religious schools are unconstitutional. Research and writing by Susan Batte After the Fourteenth Amendment made the Establishment Clause applicable to the states, the Supreme Court became the final arbiter of whether states could support religious schools through either direct or indirect funding. Before the Court could even reach this controversy, however, it first had to decide cases that arose as a result of the public right to educate all children colliding with a parent's private right to educate his child as he deemed appropriate (
LPB: National Teacher Training Institute From louisiana State University, Ruth received her BA in Elementary I amcurrently teaching at St. Louis of King France parochial School in Baton Rouge. http://www.lpb.org/education/classroom/ntti/teachers.html
Extractions: From Louisiana State University, Ruth received her B.A. in Elementary Education and M.Ed.+30 in Curriculum and Instruction specializing in math/science instruction. She participated in a 5-year National Science Foundation project sponsored by LSU which resulted with two resource publications. Other projects include AIMS, ForSea, Project Wild, and Bronx Zoo Project. Melinda Billings Melinda Jeffers Billings is the Magnet Lead Teacher and Technology Coordinator at Ryan Elementary School. She has a B.S. in Early Childhood Education and she taught Kindergarten for 7 years. She will graduate in August with a M.S. in Educational Technology. She has been teaching Computer Literacy for five years. The past three years she has been teaching Broadcast Communications and produces a daily, live, closed-circuit television show staffed completely by students. Her students also script and film commercials and public service announcement for the show as well as film school functions for use on the television show. Ms. Billings has presented at LACUE, GAETC, and PTNET conferences.
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Louisiana The history of louisiana forms an important part of the history of the United the actual residence of the pastor, the parochial school buildings and http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09378a.htm
Extractions: Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... L > Louisiana A B C D ... CICDC - Home of the Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan Louis XIV Louis XIV wished to colonize Louisiana, and unite to his possessions in Canada by a chain of posts in the Mississippi valley. England would thus be hemmed in between the Atlantic Ocean and the Appalachian range of mountains. la Salle endeavoured in carry out this scheme in 1684, but his colony, Fort Louis, established by mistake on the coast of what is now Texas, perished when its founder was murdered on the Trinity river by some of his own men on 19 March, 1687. In 1688 James II was expelled from England, and the war which ensued between Louis XIV Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville succeeded him in the command of the colony. Iberville ordered Bienville to remove the seat of the colony from Biloxi and form an establishment on the Mobile River. This was done in January, 1702, when Fort Louis de la Mobile was constructed at a point eighteen leagues from the sea. In 1711 the settlement was moved to the site which is now occupied by the city of Mobile. In 1704 the devoted friend of La Salle, Henry de Tonty, died at Mobile, and on 9 July, 1706, Iberville, the founded of Louisiana, died at Havana of yellow fever. Jesuit Father The Province of Louisiana had been divided on 16 May, 1722, into three spiritual jurisdictions. The first, comprising all the country from the mouth of the Mississippi to the Wabash, and west of the Mississippi, was allowed to the Capuchins, whose superior was to be vicar-general of the Bishop of Quebec and was to reside in New Orleans. The second extended north from the Wabash and belonged to the
Education Member universities in the WES Graduate Institute include louisiana State This school system is a secondary parochial institution operating under a http://www.vicksburg.org/pages/education.htm
Extractions: Vicksburg-Warren County offers an opportunity for public, private, parochial, and higher education. Fourteen colleges and universities are located within a 50-mile radius of Vicksburg. These institutions provide students with a varied selection of post-secondary educational programs close to home. Higher Education Hinds Community College Hinds Community College (HCC), located in Warren County, is one available choice. HCC offers a well-rounded curriculum within three divisions. Hinds offers 28 courses of study under the umbrella of the High School Division. These studies include basic academic courses and specialized vocational-technical preparatory courses. Hinds specializes in vocational and technical courses offered within its college division. In addition to the academic transfer program, trade apprenticeship programs, GED preparation and adult literacy programs, Hinds offers several career training choices. These courses of study award students vocational/technical certificates and/or an Associate of Applied Science Degrees upon successful completion. Fourteen additional educational services are provided by HCC. These services include job placement at MSES job Bank, the mobile literacy unit and the educational test center. Hinds Community College is accredited by the Southern Association of College and Schools. Although financial aid is available, the low tuition costs at Hinds are easily affordable for many students.
Welcome To Louisiana Crawfish Festival! 2005 marks the 29th anniversary of the louisiana Crawfish Festival. public andparochial schools in St. Bernard, youth programs such as the Boy Scouts, http://www.st-bernard.la.us/tourism/LCF/lcf.htm
Extractions: (8245 W. Judge Perez Dr.) in Chalmette, Louisiana. 2005 marks the 29th anniversary of the Louisiana Crawfish Festival. As in past years, the festival will be held on the grounds of the Frederick J. Sigur Civic Center (formerly the St. Bernard Cultural Center) located at 8245 W. Judge Perez Dr. in Chalmette, Louisiana. The festival draws people from the entire metro area as well as from other states and even other countries! Food and fun for all ages are available. The festival will offer over sixty amusement rides for children of all ages, forty booths of games and attractions of all kinds will be there for your pleasure as well as a large selection of arts and crafts vendors. And of course the Louisiana Crawfish Festival will have plenty of what it is most famous for CRAWFISH! The festival will feature over 25 different crawfish dishes. And for those who dont like crawfish (Do those people really exist?) the festival will have a wonderful selection of non-crawfish dishes. nd . And of course we cannot forget the World-Famous Crawfish Races!
Extractions: Few people have changed the lives of so many children as Elizabeth Anne Seton, the first American-born saint. Born in 1774 in New York City, just before the American Revolution, Elizabeth Bayley was home-schooled by her father, a Professor of Anatomy at King's College (now known as Columbia). At age 19, she married a wealthy young merchant named William Seton, and threw herself into social work; by age 23, she had founded the Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children. But she herself become a widow six years later, when her husband's death left her with five children to raise by herself. The family had traveled to Italy in attempt to improve William Seton's failing health; after his death in Pisa , she stayed on in Italy for two years, as she became increasingly interested in the novel (to her) religion of Catholicism. Having been raised as an Episcopalian, she converted to Catholicism at age 31. Her grandfather had been rector at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church on Staten Island, and neither her family nor friends accepted her decision. She was immediately ostracized. To support her children, she opened a school in New York City.
St. Edmund Catholic School Eunice, Louisiana Chambon had been instructed by Blenk to establish a parochial school for the the parochial school of Eunice, louisiana has been turned over to the http://www.stedmund.com/about_history.htm
Extractions: History Quick Facts Visiting Campus Contact Us It all started wi th a simple sketch of church property. St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church pastor Celestin Chambon sent a note and a small sketch to His Grace James H. Blenk, Archbishop of New Orleans. Several months before, Fr. Chambon exchanged parishes with Fr. Louis Laroche. Chambon had been instructed by Blenk to establish a parochial school for the religious education of St. Anthony parishs children. By the end of December Chambon had begun the ground work for the new school. The old High School of Eunice is to be sold next Saturday, he wrote Blenk in a December 31, 1910 letter.
