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Dick Vaughan Directs Blue Ridge
School Summer Program
Dick Vaughan, IECA from Florida,
has moved to Charlottesville, Virginia to direct the Blue Ridge School
Summer Program. His educational consulting practice is on hold until
at least next Fall. Dick says the summer program has a lot of structure
and works well as a transition experience for graduates of Special Purpose
Boarding Schools.
Dr. Sydney Manning, Silver Springs,
MD, Child Advocate
Dr. Sydney Manning, Silver Springs,
Maryland, considers herself a Child Advocate; working with and recommending
programs in the public and private sector which meets the best needs
of the child, and keeps the child in the home when feasible.
Catholic Education Association
Acknowledges Aggressive Campaign
Leaders in the Catholic Education
Association readily acknowledge an aggressive, nationwide campaign to
recruit students whose parents feel public schools are failing to teach
basic skills, impart proper values and maintain order. The campaign
is buoyed by studies showing students in Catholic schools outperform
public school students, perceptions that Catholic schools have maintained
standards and traditional values, statistics showing Catholic school
enrollments increased this year reversing a 15 year downward trend,
and the feeling there is a growing trend toward parental rights to select
their child's school which could result in a voucher or choice system
in place in the foreseeable future
Boys Town in Nebraska
Boys Town in Nebraska, primarily
works with adjudicated or state referred youths for which there are
no other options.
Carol Gill, IECA in New York,
Temporarily Slowed Down
Carol Gill, IECA in Dobbs Ferry,
New York, has been temporarily slowed down by an accident to her foot.
Fortunately her Associate Margie Weston has been there to help keep
things going and by the time this is published, Carol hopefully will
be as good as new.
Franklin Academy Works to Revise
License to Residential Child Care
Donald W. Beattie, new Superintendent
of Schools for Franklin Academy in Maine, reports as of Feb. 1 they
have been working with the state of Maine Department of Human Services
toward revising their license to that of a residential child care facility.
Working closely with the state, the school has discharged several children
who did not seem to fit the profile, has changed the name of "House
Directors to Residential Assistants/Associates (with accompanying/expected
credentials and roles for these personnel)....," is "formalizing a passive,
non-abusive psychological/physical intervention training program," developing
for each child a Student Action Plan and Individualized Service Plan,
and is developing a Board of Directors/Trustees to be policy makers
of the school which it is planned will be not-for-profit rather than
proprietary in nature.
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