Guilford Education Alliance Newsletter

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January 9, 2013

Greetings!

COURAGE: Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. (Mark Twain)

Guilford County Schools character trait for January and February is courage.

We look forward to continuing our work in 2013 to keep our public schools the TOP priority for Guilford County citizens. If you would like to make a donation to Guilford Education Alliance to help support our program of work, we welcome you to visit our website by clicking here to donate online.

Happy 2013!

Sincerely,

Guilford Education Alliance

In This Issue

Guilford Education Alliance News

Guilford County Education News

National Education News

Community Program and Calendar of Events

Guilford County Schools
Board of Education

Next Meeting:
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Meeting Materials not yet available.

Last Meeting:
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Meeting Materials

2012 Legislative Agenda

2013- 2014 Traditional School Calendar

Guilford Education Alliance News

Principal for a Day

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Interested in shadowing a principal?

Please contact Guilford Education Alliance at

GEA@GuilfordEducationAlliance.org or 336.841.4332.

Kick Off to Kindergarten Parent Days

11 - 1pm and 5 - 7pm

Monday, February 11 - Greensboro Children's Museum

Monday, February 18 - High Point Museum

ON STAGE!

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Tickets coming soon!

Sponsorships available. Contact our office to learn more!

Guilford County Education News

19 New Charter Schools for Guilford?

GREENSBORO - North Carolina continues to see strong interest in charter schools more than a year after state lawmakers eliminated a 100-school cap.

The Office of Charter Schools received about 160 letters of intent from people who want to apply to open charter schools in fall 2014. Nineteen of those letters came from Guilford County. Read more...

Guilford County Schools Drops Plans for Airport Area High School

GREENSBORO - Guilford County Schools no longer plans to build a new high school and middle school near the airport in western Guilford County.

Instead, school board members hope county officials will clear the way for the district to spend more than $70 million on other construction projects, including school renovations. Read more...

North Carolina Education News

Deferring Six Figures on Wall Street for Teacher Salary

Four years after the financial crisis, Wall Street hiring has remained weak, and many college graduates have searched for jobs and even careers in other fields. In the past several years, hundreds of such would-be finance professionals and management consultants have taken their high-powered ambitions and spreadsheet modeling skills to the classroom. Read more...

NC Leads Nation in Board Certified Teachers

North Carolina's public school classrooms continue to lead the nation with the most teachers certified by the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards, according to results released by the organization Tuesday. Read more...

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/01/08/2591330/nc-leads-nation-in-board-certified.html#storylink=cpy

National Education News

School Project Blurs Lines Between Public, Private

An unusual public-private school improvement partnership in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., school system is raising hopes about its potential for improving the lives of some of Charlotte's neediest students and generating concerns about its nontraditional funding and governance structure. Read more...

New Science Standards Draft Includes Many Changes

A second and final public draft of common standards aimed at reshaping K-12 science education was released today for comment, following eight months of review and rewriting.

Organizers emphasized that the latest version reflects substantial changes from the draft issued last May, with a clear focus on taking to heart feedback gathered from more than 10,000 individuals and organizations. Read more...

Guilford Education Alliance Community Programs,

Partners and Calendar of Events

Guilford Education Alliance Corporate Education Council