Tomorrow @ 6 pm in the Lynn Public Schools Administration building at 100 Bennett Street we are having the next to the last PAC meeting of the school year. A call goes out to the parents of all the SPED parents in LPS for a monthly reminder.
This will in fact be the last meeting I attend as a parent of an LPS student since Trippy graduates June 1 and has been accepted into Salem State College. I has been a long ride but if you stay involved the system works.
Sunday, April 30, 2017
Saturday, April 29, 2017
Friday, April 28, 2017
NO FACE, NO GUILT
A spotlight on the shadows
Only makes sure the anger grows.
The population sought to protect
Highlighted to object.
Maybe born good of good intentions
Providing questionable preventions.
HEY LOOK OVER HERE.. . .
City seeking student sanctuary
I am sure the symbolism makes some people sleep a little easier. I'm all for that. In fact I even had a wife once, the first one, who thought sleeping should be an Olympic sport.
BUT. . .,
you know what is also a symbol? A flashing light to identify danger up ahead or the screaming sound of a smoke detector to alert you of a possible fire.
In LPS's case we have the MAYOR going around on national TV, newspapers, or anyone who will listen to blame all our problems on refugees (unaccompanied minors) and questioning their legal status. Anything to attract the attention of, I don't know,ICE agents.
IT JUST SEEMS KIND OF HYPOCRITICAL TO ME.
SATTERWHITE-NEW BLOOD FOR THE FIGHT
My name is Michael Anthony Satterwhite. I am a long time Lynn resident and I am running for Lynn School Committee.
masforlynn.com
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
DECODING
Police and fire chiefs ask for more resources
It appears the MAYOR is again blaming the schoolClearly playing the citizens for fools.
In growth are city is not alone
Still answers others have shown.
No one has as large of a problem with school spending net
As our city always seems to get.
She advocates changing NSS how the do calculate
So teachers would become irate
And LPS's budget bear the burden of the brunt
See crying foul is no more than a publicity stunt
Either way the city will lose
It's just who to layoff you choose.
THE POLITICS OF THE APOLOGY
Mother to mayor: Your comment was hurtful
To reassure the public a statement was givenOnly turns out it's not how we're livin'.
To explain the brazen attacks
Required the use of alternative facts.
In an attempt for political cover
Sacrificing the grief of a mother.
Sorrow may be expressed,
The sincerity to be guessed.
Sunday, April 23, 2017
Saturday, April 22, 2017
THE DAY THE EARTH WAS SCORCHED
The choking smell of exhaust
Has replaced the odor
Of award-winning vegetables
Growing on the asphalt.
The humming of the diesel engines
Drowned out the not
So silent protests destined
For ears unprepared to hear.
Days of salad off in the distance
As if history had not been remembered
And could be rewritten, resurrected
In order to stroke swollen egos.
WHAT IS THE EARTH WORTH?
Salad days ahead for Ford School
This nice considering what they once had there (NOT)!
Friday, April 21, 2017
NO FORM FOR THE NEW NORM
When the mayor and others say that crime is like a stumbling block and say that this isn’t Lynn — as if we aren’t Lynn. This is where we live, this is our community. Those statements sounded like Lenny and his friend deserved what they got because they might have known these people.”
It's all in who you know
For respect some to show.
Says more about them than you
Cause respect for life no clue.
A position without shame
When the victim you choose to blame.
MAKE WAY FOR O'SHEA
Election fight looms in Lynn’s Ward 1
Now I usually don't like lawyers as a rule
But to ignore the obvious would make a fool.
Turns out there's a candidate in my ward
Against costs we cannot afford.
He asks questions that I have asked
On the costs we are tasked.
The answers may be at the state not the city
Still not to raise them would be a pity.
Thursday, April 20, 2017
THE NEXT STEP FREE?
NSCC will be the first community college in the Northeast to offer a self-funded free college program.
itemlive.com
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
A POLITICAL PARTY
JUN7
Campaign Kickoff
Public
· Hosted by Jared Nicholson
- Wednesday, June 7 at 6 PM - 8 PM
- Rincon Macorisano350 Washington St, Lynn, Massachusetts 01902
- Find TicketsTickets Availablewww.jarednicholson.org
NO TIME TO HIDE
Calling the violence RANDOM to make me feel better only makes it worse
When it comes time for re-election this will be your curse.
For danger that comes without prepare
Leads to constant need to beware.
Trying to shift the blame
Always brings more shame.
As long as responsibility you abdicate
The violence will only escalate.
Monday, April 17, 2017
HORIZON HAPPENINGS
Reach out to your Senators and Congresspersons to Protect the Multiple programs that Support Community Schools
President
Trump's proposed budget for FY 2018 eliminates or severely cuts many
programs that support youth and families and community schools. We must stand together against these cuts.Take action here
Of particular concern to us is the proposed elimination of the 21st
Century Community Learning Centers program, which at $1.1 billion
provides core funding for after-school programs and community schools.
The Full-Service Community Schools program at $10 million is also
at-risk, as is Promise Neighborhoods and Title IV Part A, the new
program in ESSA authorized at $1.6 billion that can be used to implement
community schools.
Several other programs inside and outside the Department of Education are proposed for elimination, including:
- Title II-A ($2.1 billion) which provides professional development for educators
- Corporation for National Service that funds Americorps programs, a majority of which are located in schools ($1 billion)
- the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), which supports housing, community facilities, economic development, and social service projects, mainly for low- and moderate-income residents ($3 billion); and
- the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG), which provides anti-poverty services through local non-profit and public agencies ($714 million).
Taken
together, these proposed cuts would be devastating for youth, families
and communities who access these programs and supports and that are
shown to be effective. We need to tell Congress that this budget is
absolutely unacceptable. And we need to protect these programs
for the remainder of FY 2017 with the vote Congress will take by April
28 on the final FY 2017 budget.
We are partnering with the Afterschool Alliance on their outreach platform. Take action here
to call on Congress to maintain or increase funding for these programs
to ensure our young people and their families and communities can
continue to learn and thrive.
We encourage you to take a step further and take other actions to reinforce the message:
1) Call your Senators and Congressperson and urge them not to cut these programs
2) Join with other advocates for youth and families in your community and state and advocate to your members of Congress together
3) Visit the district offices of your members of Congress to share this message in-person (or call them)
4) To advocate more for 21st Century Community Learning Centers, follow the Afterschool Alliance and share their messages
Thank you in advance for taking a stand for the youth and families in your community and for community schools.
Sincerely,
The Coalition for Community Schools Team at the Institute for Educational Leadership
Coalition for Community Schools
4301 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 100
Washington, DC 20008-2304
www.communityschools.org
THE ROOT
Shots fired
Yet no one heard.
When history has no ears
We repeat the absurd.
Curse the present, blame the fast
All in an effort to get the last word.
CITY OF SIN WHERE TO BEGIN
Treat the cause not the effect
Symptoms just manifestations of neglect.
The answers found at the root
Otherwise treatment is mute.
Fighting to find who to blame
When there's no shortage of shame
For history to share.
THE ART OF THE AUDIT
Cuts to public safety, easy to blame the Mayor
Finding the money, I know not where.
Everybody cries when their budget's cut
And blames others for waste and glut.
Truth is the problems been long term
Avoid the choices, avoid the squirm.
Sacrifice the cause to treat the effect
Remember that when time to elect.
Saturday, April 15, 2017
FASHION FORECAST
Uniform program gets a green light
Every since I've been manning the WATCH I think every year LSC member MARIA CARRASCO puts forth such a proposal. With the addition of JARED NICHOLSON to the LSC iit appears that there is now the political will to enact the trial quasi-policy.
Since the trials are going to be at ABORN and CALLAHAN it will be interesting to see the probability of success. I wonder what went into the thinking of those two choices. I really have no idea since I haven't been hanging around the meetings.
I could make a good argument on both sides of this issue. It will be interesting to see how it plays out.
Friday, April 14, 2017
TECH TROUNCES CHELSEA
Thursday, April 13, 2017
GIRLS ON THE SIDE
Consider the progress we’ve made, Kennedy says
"CATCH THE SIDE-EYE, IT SAYS IT ALL"
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
LYNN'S LOOK AT RESISTANCE
How can you be expect to get reelected
When obviously the city's budget's been neglected.
All along there's been a strategy to deny
But it's now pretty clear that excuse won't fly.
So from the race you should withdraw
Or risk the worst beat-down you ever saw.
All your attempts to get on the national stage
Only serve to incite the voter's rage.
Think of with whom you align
And be prepared for a sign.
When obviously the city's budget's been neglected.
All along there's been a strategy to deny
But it's now pretty clear that excuse won't fly.
So from the race you should withdraw
Or risk the worst beat-down you ever saw.
All your attempts to get on the national stage
Only serve to incite the voter's rage.
Think of with whom you align
And be prepared for a sign.
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