Friday Snippets 1/16/08: Weather Caused School Closings in Hawaii?

Schools here in Lexington today were closed because of bone-chilling cold temps. Schools in Hawaii were closed this week because of high wind. I think I would prefer the wind.

Putting the sex, back in sex-education (nice, if slightly misleading title).

This is interesting on Newspapers.

Mandatory donations to get seats at a basketball game are becoming more popular. Louisville is "demanding" a $2,500 "donation" per seat, per year to be eligible to "purchase" seats. Once a donation becomes "mandatory" doesn't it cease to be a donation? This is a lawsuit in waiting.

Louisiana approves evolution teaching guidelines.

Watch for a whole lot of headlines like this one over the next few months.

Nevada's higher education budget cut proposals are the worst I have seen so far. A 36% proposed cut. Now, surely it will be less, but anything over 20% is unmanageable.

More teacher's unions asking for pay raises.  

Utah's Omnibus Bill lawsuit is an interesting one. The claim is that education bills should not have been lumped in together at the end of the session.

More states are competing to get out of state students with in-state tuition rates (and there's and SIU reference). Are we going to see a day when the out-of-state rate applies only to students coming from outside the State ... as in the United States.

Detroits schools are going to get the toilet paper they asked for. Ahh, Detroit.

A Hebrew language charter school? These charter schools have provided the space for a little langauge way because this follows on the Arabic language charter schools across the country. South Carolina has a charter school lawsuit that might see their Supeme Court.

Here's a problem for schools caused by the economy, more homeless students.

And, in 2009, I think I am going to cut back on the blogosphere links. I'll do a few that really catch my attention each week, but I am not going to run through all the ed. law blogs. 

There is a new blog I want to point you to this week: The Ability Law Blog by Randy Chapman. It focuses mostly on disability issues related to schools.

Leadertalk, another blog in the CASTLE empire, has officially moved over to an Education Week blog, so update your readers.

NASSP's Principal's Policy Blog has new guidance from ED. on choice and SES.

Friday Fun: The Wine Library -- this guy is awesome. Love to see people so passionate.