- Advocate Capitol News Bureau
- Published: Jan 21, 2011 - Page: 8A
Students from a Baton Rouge middle school and a Baton Rouge teacher were recognized Thursday by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.A robotics team from Kenilworth Science & Technology Charter School was given a resolution from BESE, which sets state policies for public schools statewide.The team, called “Alienbots,” earned first place for overall performance during the state’s First LEGO League Championship in New Orleans.The students were also picked as the best rookie team.The competition was held in November.Students built autonomous robots to perform tasks related to a biomedical and engineering theme.Teams were also required to present judges with a biomedical problem and proposed solution. Students were rated on teamwork and professionalism.Members of the Kenilworth team are Jabir Abdullah, Fazil Ozcelik, Matthew Kingsley, Emma Lacy, Dylan Aguiluz and Nathaniel Batiste.The coach is Irfan Demir, a computer teacher and robotics coordinator at the school.BESE also recognized Laura Hill, a teacher at Cedarcrest-Southmoor Elementary School, who recently won a Milken National Educator Award.The award includes a $25,000 gift from the foundation, which issues the honors annually to teachers around the country.Hill teaches fourth grade. In 2009 all of her home room students passed the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program.Passage of the test, which measures math and English skills, is required for promotion to the fifth grade.The state’s other Milken winner, Renee Lee Ward, was also recognized by BESE.
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
BESE honors teacher, students from charter school
Monday, December 6, 2010
See How Informed (!) the People Attacking Harmony Schools and Cosmos Foundation are
Nothing much to say. This video is worth thousand words, watch and draw your own conclusions. They call them Gulen charter schools, connected to Fethullah Gulen, Bill Gates worshipers, you name it…
If I was an administrator at Cosmos Foundation or Harmony Schools, I would send flowers to these people for making their lives so easy:)
Here is the script of the video:
As CBS 7 first reported Tuesday, a West Texas group is claiming that a charter school coming to Odessa this fall has ties to radical Islam in Turkey. But tonight’s statements from school administrators and new information seem to indicate that claim is not true.
As parents poured into Harmony’s future school building for an information session this evening, “West Texas Patriots” members stood outside handing out fliers that encourage parents to research the school online. As CBS 7 first told you Tuesday, The Patriots believe the Harmony Schools have connections to “Radical Islam”. However, continued research of our own found that is unlikely. For example, Congressman Randy Neugebauer supports Harmony, and President George W. Bush invited Harmony Academy students to the Whitehouse in 2008.
West Texas Patriot representative, Georgia Bustamanti, couldn’t provide any source for her information.
Georgia Bustamanti: “We found this on the website.”
Beau Berman: “Which website?”
Bustamanti: “What is the name of it?”
Berman: “Do you think that maybe you should know the name of the website before you spread this information to parents who are just trying to find out about a school?”
Bustamanti: “Well… yes, probably. I will admit that.”
Visit the Patriots’ website and they provide links to personal blogs, which backup their claims about Harmony with links to other blogs, which in turn, use other blogs as their proof. A primary source is never identified on these websites either.
Beau Berman: “Who is the source that claims they’re connected to Fethullah Gulen?”
Georgia Bustamanti: “I don’t think I’m going to say that.”
Berman: “Why?”
Bustamanti: “I just don’t think I’m going to.”
Berman: “Do you know who the source is?”
Bustamanti: “I’ll sure (sic) send you an email later.”
This article from harmonyparent.com
If I was an administrator at Cosmos Foundation or Harmony Schools, I would send flowers to these people for making their lives so easy:)
Here is the script of the video:
As CBS 7 first reported Tuesday, a West Texas group is claiming that a charter school coming to Odessa this fall has ties to radical Islam in Turkey. But tonight’s statements from school administrators and new information seem to indicate that claim is not true.
As parents poured into Harmony’s future school building for an information session this evening, “West Texas Patriots” members stood outside handing out fliers that encourage parents to research the school online. As CBS 7 first told you Tuesday, The Patriots believe the Harmony Schools have connections to “Radical Islam”. However, continued research of our own found that is unlikely. For example, Congressman Randy Neugebauer supports Harmony, and President George W. Bush invited Harmony Academy students to the Whitehouse in 2008.
West Texas Patriot representative, Georgia Bustamanti, couldn’t provide any source for her information.
Georgia Bustamanti: “We found this on the website.”
Beau Berman: “Which website?”
Bustamanti: “What is the name of it?”
Berman: “Do you think that maybe you should know the name of the website before you spread this information to parents who are just trying to find out about a school?”
Bustamanti: “Well… yes, probably. I will admit that.”
Visit the Patriots’ website and they provide links to personal blogs, which backup their claims about Harmony with links to other blogs, which in turn, use other blogs as their proof. A primary source is never identified on these websites either.
Beau Berman: “Who is the source that claims they’re connected to Fethullah Gulen?”
Georgia Bustamanti: “I don’t think I’m going to say that.”
Berman: “Why?”
Bustamanti: “I just don’t think I’m going to.”
Berman: “Do you know who the source is?”
Bustamanti: “I’ll sure (sic) send you an email later.”
This article from harmonyparent.com
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