Schleifstein.net

In addressing faculty assignments, Superintendent Diane Roussel has exclusive authority to assign teachers to schools for the next two years. The annual job fair, which is traditionally used to recruit, will no longer be conducted, as all teacher assignments for the coming year will be handled by Roussel.

Teachers with advanced degrees and certification will be assigned in an effort to achieve an equal distribution across the parish, the document says. To achieve the stability required by the order, faculty positions will be frozen for three years after the initial two-year hiring window.

“This is going to help put some consistency in there,” Roussel said.

The order also supersedes the terms of the teachers union’s collective bargaining agreement, which typically dictates transfer procedures, attorneys said. But Roussel emphasized that she was not expecting any wholesale movement of faculty over the next two years.

Officials also mitigated potential problems by prohibiting cross-river teacher transfers as part of the order.

via NOLA.com

Now what do you think that means? And how can the teachers union protest when its wrapped in a desegregation law without looking racist? How would you like to be told you can’t apply for a transfer because we won’t be posting any jobs only the top person can move you (at her discretion) and then you are stuck for the next 3 to 5 years.

Or you can quit.

In Greenbay, WI this weekend there will be what should be seen as a Gulf Coast Championship Game. Two quarterbacks from the Katrina effected areas of New Orleans and Kiln will battle it out to see which gets to represent the Gulf Coast in the Super Bowl (we are the better coast by the by). Eli Manning is a Newman grad from New Orleans who led the Giants over the Cowboys on Sunday (what a great game that was, Ha Ha T.O.). Brett Farve is good southern boy from Kiln, MS (just an hour and a half away, been there and there ain’t much to do) who is extremely active in his home town community and led his Packers to a huge victory over Seattle on Saturday.

Go Gulf Coast!!

I have yet to understand what this means but: for Bloggingneworleans.com

And for the Bloggingneworleans.com podcast

and for schleifstein.net

and pathofdestructionbook.com

post test in the new upgraded version of wordpress… I got this pic on harrison ave in lakeview (search blogging new orleans for the full story… i think i should start blogging about personal stuff again and maybe post some art too… what do you think?

ps: congrats to kevin and andrea!!

nothing to see… search google for the screaming 2 year old landlord will ya

OK, that’s a little harsh, but it needed to be said. In yesterday’s Miami Herald he made an uniformed idiotic argument that the Pulitzers should be eliminated because they only award rich large circ papers and only give a couple token awards to smaller papers. As the son of a multiplu prize winner who has never worked for a large paper but has worked at three small papers (two of which have won pulitzers, Times Picayune and the clarion ledger) I find this argument invalid. First off I am not any where near the writer my father is so this argument may also be flawed, but i need to get it out there. Mr. Wasserman claims the awards are saved for the few large papers and they don’t recognize small papers with quality product. Plus he thinks the public service award is only for those papers who have been injured in some way. Wrong! In 1997 when my father’s series (co-written by four writers), “Oceans of Trouble,” won the Pulitzer Prize for Public service for the Picayune the paper was not flooded or otherwise effected by damage fo some sort. The Picayune decided to invest a number of months in a well thought out series lead by writers and editors including those who had been finalists before (my father had two series, one on chemical plants in louisiana and one on corruption in state gov’t {I think} before that one reach finalist status for the pulitzer). Large papers aren’t the only ones who invest time and effort in good writers over the long term. Maybe if more papers would decide to devote their resources to at least one really good series each year more papers would win, but if you don’t try you don’t win. Look at the LATimes. They were a perennial favorite, but this year… nothing.

Edward Wasserman you are an idiot.

So I obviously love the Camera() object, but what do all you Flash junkies out there get hyped over? Do you like the Microphone or Video classes? Maybe you have a really cool use for the Math functions. Of course there is always the extremely fun Object() object. Gotta love the obvious ones. So let me know, comment below.