Attorney William Grimm has filed suit in Ventura County Superior Court, alleging the Rio School District board broke state law in several closed-door meetings leading up to Sherianne Cotterell’s removal as superintendent.
Grimm, who is married to Cotterell, wants the court to order trustees to follow California’s open meetings law — the Brown Act. He also wants the court to declare null and void the split board’s March 2 action to terminate Cotterell’s contract without cause.
Cotterell was given 60 days’ notice of the termination following the board’s 3-1 vote that night.
The board majority has demonstrated a complete disregard for laws and policies, Grimm said this week in an email response to questions.
“They have done so because no one stands up to them,” he said. “It is time they are held accountable. The court needs to send a message to the board majority that they are not above the law.”
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Last week, Common Sense Media released its 10 worst TV role models – a list specifically devoted to what children are learning from TV characters.I expected fun kid faves like Strawberry Shortcake and Candace (from Phineas and Ferb), and I wasn’t shocked by Snooki – or even Tyra Banks. Discussing these personalities gives parents relevant opportunities to talk about body image and drinking with their kids. And they’re shows that – for better or for worse – kids tend to watch.
At #8 on the list I did a double take: Nancy Botwin from Weeds (TV-MA). In case you’re not familiar with this suburban mom-turned drug dealer-turned murderess, she’s not exactly kid fare. I get that every 11-year-old knows Jersey Shore (whether they’ve watched it or not). But Weeds?
Then, over the weekend I got a giant dose of reality. Sitting next to me at the 10 pm show of Hangover 2 (R) was a 9-year-old kid. Next to him: Two more kids in the 8 to 11 range (mind you, I didn’t ask any of the kids their ages, but they were Y-O-U-N-G). These three kids we
The City University of New York wants to make it easier for students to transfer from the system’s two-year institutions to bachelor’s degree programs.
According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, the new transfer policy was proposed by university officials after a University Office of Academic Affairs report showed that students were taking too many credits that did not transfer. In order to graduate, CUNY students need 120 credits; however, many end up taking more than that when transferring because coursework often does not transfer to their receiving campus. The report noted that such inefficiency costs the system and students $73 million a year.
Indeed, the press release cited many examples in which the current CUNY transfer process acted as a barrier to students’ graduation goals. Gregory Bradford, vice chair of the CUNY Coalition for Students with Disabilities, for instance, transferred from York College to Borough of Manhattan Community College and finally Brooklyn College.
My two sons, seven and eleven respectively, enjoy games. They quite enjoy a game of Uno, Monopoly or Sorry, but their favourite form involves digital formats. They both own a Nintendo DS, we had a Nintendo Wii and an aging Playstation 2, plus they share the family Windows desktop where they are very adept at finding different forms of games to play. The portable DS systems go with us a lot over to the grandparents house on a Friday or in my office or classroom when one of them is dropped to me while the other goes to swimming or speech therapy. The boys go through phases with games, feeding off each others choices with my younger, Joshua, usually leading the way and his older brother joining in when he feels he can see what the whole thing is about and whether there is an appeal for him. The phases sometimes tie to other media last year, Joshua started getting into the Star Wars series of films where he started buying Star Wars themed Lego with his pocket money and we ended getting the Star Wars Lego Wii game that he promptly and systematically starting working his way through.
The City University of New York wants to make it easier for students to transfer from the system’s two-year institutions to bachelor’s degree programs.