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API and the Catholic Schools - A statement about why our schools don't participate in the API tests.
High School Exit Exams - A statement about Catholic high schools and the HSEE as well as links to the official California website, and a .pdf document of frequently asked questions. *On Thursday, October 11, Governor Davis signed legislation (AB 1609) that may delay the HSEE by another year. This law prevents ninth-graders from taking the test, and requires the state Board of Education to determine whether students received sufficient instruction on materials covered in the exam. Both the legislation and the HSEE only affect students attending government run schools.
NOTE: External links like these below are provided "as is." They are for your information. The information presented does not represent a policy statement by the Diocese of Sacramento or the Catholic School Department.
In
this time of national tragedy, we turn to our God for
comfort. President Bush has declared Friday, September 14,
as a National Day of Mourning. To help schools prepare a
Prayer Service for this day, or for any prayer service for
our September 11 tragedy, here are two resources.
St.
Mary's Press
has a variety of prayers and liturgies, and links to other
sites. The United
States Conference of Catholic
Bishops
also has a site containing a variety of prayers and
blessings that may be appropriate for your use.
Resources are
available to help children cope with terrorism. An
indication of the depth of the trauma caused by Tuesday's
assaults is provided by this stark news: the U.S. Department
of Education has compiled a Web page of resources to help
children understand and cope with the terrorist attacks. The
address is as follows: http://www.ed.gov/inits/september11.
Our prayers are with all children and citizens as we collectively deal with thefallout from these senseless and detestable acts.
A recent poll shows conflicting attitudes about education
proposals, according to an analysis by the Center for
Education Reform (CER). For five years CER has analyzed
surveys and polls on Americans' attitudes toward school
reform proposals. This poll, the Public's Attitudes Toward
the Public Schools by Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup, (PDK) has been
criticized for selectivity and bias in its polling.
Click
here for the latest news in education from The Center for
Education Reform,
Mitchell
v. Helms
- The recent U.S. Supreme Court's
6-3 decision in Mitchell v. Helms upheld as
constitutional Title VI of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act...
Internet
Literacy - Families should
pursue Internet literacy, the U.S. bishops declared in the
statement "Your Family and Cyberspace," which they passed
unanimously June 16, 2000 during their Spring meeting in
Milwaukee...
Here is an interesting article
from the Washington
Post about a teacher's
reaction to Virginia's SOL (similar to our HSEE), and some
comments by that teacher about the teaching profession. This
is a very interesting read.
This article is from the Anchorage Daily News and once again features a teacher talking about the teaching profession - especially the need for tough grading standards. This is a must read for parents and teachers.
Federal
Education Programs
- A listing of ESEA (Elementary
and Secondary Education Act) and IDEA (Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act) programs that are available to
Catholic school students. Note: not all programs are
available through every public school district. Please check
with your local Catholic school principal first to discover
what services are available at the local Catholic
school.
Browser
cookies are little bits of information that sit in your
computer and let companies know what sites you've visited.
This could be a good thing if you want a specific site to
remember you (for example the site you use for travel
reservations) but can be quite annoying at times since they
may broadcast information you'd rather keep confidential.
Here's how to get rid of those pesky files and set up
Internet Explorer to accept no cookies, or only cookies that
you choose. How
to Crumble Cookies.
Salina,
KS 8th grade final exam (1895)
- Remember when our grandparents, great-grandparents, and
such stated that they only had an 8th grade education? Well,
check this out. Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in
1895? Relate it to the state you were in.This is the
eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, KS. USA. It was
taken from the original document on file at the Smokey
Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, KS, and
reprinted by the Salina Journal.
"Catholic schools are no less
zealous than other schools in the promotion of culture and
in the human formation of young people. It is however, the
special function of the Catholic school to: -develop in the
school community an atmosphere animated by a spirit of
liberty and charity; -enable young people, while developing
their own personality, to grow at the same time in that new
life which has been given them in baptism; -orient the whole
of human culture to the message of salvation." General
Directory for Catechesis, # 259, USCC, 1998