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January 26, 2011 by · Comments Off on News 12 Long Island 

News 12 Long Island, Everyone knows the great success those Massapequa High School athletic squads in the field. Their athletes also excel in the classroom. Lee Henderson, a student at Massapequa High School, was honored as “News 12 Long Island / MSG Varsity Scholar Athlete of the Week,” an award that recognizes significant achievements in both classroom and field.

A lineman talent in the football team, Lee was recently honored by the National Football Foundation and won the All-Conference honors. In addition to his football exploits, Lee is also a singer All County and a member of the House High School Choir. Lee has a 91 unweighted average and scored 2010 on his SAT.

Throughout the school year, News 12 Long Island and MSG Varsity “Scholar Athlete” segments appear every Monday from 12 to newsletter News from Long Island, 5:00 pm. Students who are selected are at the top of their class at school, and many participate and excel in more than one sport in high schools. Athletic Directors at each school can nominate any potential “Scholar Athletes, and he or another school representative may submit that nomination for the student to become a” News 12 Long Island / MSG Varsity Scholar Athlete of the week. ” At the end of the school year, all students honored and their team managers are invited to a commemorative dinner where some will be selected to receive cash awards.

“Lee Henderson is the high level of academic achievement and sports that are hallmarks of the News 12 Scholar Athlete and MSG Varsity program,” said Pat Dolan, News 12 Long Island News Director. “Congratulations to Lee, his family, and Massapequa High School to earn this recognition and we wish him much success this school year and in all his future endeavors. “

Amy Beck

January 21, 2011 by · Comments Off on Amy Beck 

Amy Beck, “Amy Beck,’‘the college professor who made national headlines and was sent to prison for two years for having sex with a teenage student?
Well, it took a few months, but the student’s family has finally had the opportunity to continue Beck, and the trial is spreading with more details that maybe someone would need to know.

Of course, it is the victim’s side of things, but he claims he was taken advantage of 15 to 20 times by Beck, they all had sex at her home in classrooms and halls baths David Starr Jordan Middle School, and her husband, an LAPD cop, threatened to kill the child once he discovered what was happening.

As for the so-called Beck thought her pupil’s ejaculate, and to read (if you dare).

According to the complaint, the first time by Courthouse News Service, the student met Beck in 2006 when he was placed in its 6th year history and English classes. “Meanwhile,” the claims of the victim’s family, “Beck has launched a coordinated campaign to deceive the [students] to have sex with her and eventually began sexually assaulting and abusing the victim. ”

Indeed, in March Beck admitted to having sex with the student and did not challenge unlawful sexual intercourse and committing a lewd act on a child. She received a prison sentence of 2 years.

The victim and her family said in the lawsuit that Beck told the student that she wanted “to teach” about sex, and she initially provided condoms but stopped when Beck began to take control Births and “directed” him to have sex with her.

In addition, students argued that, while he was too afraid to ejaculate several first time he had sex with Beck, she “wanted the victim to ejaculate while inside of her, “and that when he was finally able to release,” Beck perverse sexual pleasure in him. ”

One night, according to the complaint, during the fall of 2009, Beck’s husband walked on her wife and one set of student and knew something was wrong. It may be understandable, have entered into a rage.

The student claims that Beck has confessed to her husband and that he “has threatened to kill [the student] with her gun police if the parents of the victim did not immediately look at her home.”

The officer’s husband then apparently called the parents of the student on the student’s cell phone and reiterated the threat by telephone, before smashing the cell phone to bits and throwing it to the student.

The complaint, filed against Beck, LAPD, the city of Los Angeles and the Burbank Unified School District, states that the school did nothing to stop the unlawful sexual conduct and that LAPD did not investigate or discipline the husband for death threats to students, even after the family filed a complaint internally.

The husband of Amy Beck, a teacher of 33 years old Burbank, California College who admitted having sexual intercourse and oral sex with a student aged 14, threatened the life of the student, according to a complaint filed by the family of the student.

According the818now.com, the complaint filed Tuesday against the husband of the teacher, police officer in Los Angeles National Beck claims threatened to kill the teenager and the boy’s family. The threat allegedly occurred when Beck walked on her wife and the boy in her house.

Amy Beck pleaded no contest in March to unlawful sexual intercourse and committing a lewd act on a child.

Burbank Superior Court Judge Patrick Hegarty ordered the ex-David Starr Jordan College of Teachers to register as a sex offender for the rest of her life.

Amy Beck, married with three children, authorities surprised when she walked into a police station in March and confessed to an affair with one of her former students.

Beck said the relationship ended in December 2009, had left her consumed by guilt.

Beck, who has taught English and social studies, was popular with students, parents and fellow teachers, “said Gabe Soumakian, assistant superintendent for the Burbank Unified School District.

News 12

January 7, 2011 by · Comments Off on News 12 

News 12, (AP) – Teachers at Central Falls High School signed an agreement to return to their jobs last year after the entire staff was fired in a radical, last attempt to raise student achievement. But if the directors thought teachers would be grateful for a second chance, they were wrong.

Many teachers are not showing up for work, often shouting sick. Several abruptly quit during the first weeks of the school year. Administrators had to scramble to find qualified replacements and identified hundreds of student grades for absences of teachers.

The progress of school boards across the city – and the Obama administration – had hoped seems increasingly, and alarmingly elusive.

The problems come despite a labor contract that union leaders and administrators in this heavily immigrant city poor trumpeted as a breakthrough in Central Falls High, a wrestling school of nearly 840 students, where only 7 percent of the 11th-graders were competent in mathematics in 2009.

“I expected when everyone came to school there would not be a shared priority to ensure that everything was a success,” said state Education Commissioner Deborah Gist. “At this stage, we are concerned whether or not people will be able to let go of the past and work together to move forward.”

Exactly what causes all the problems is unclear, but both sides acknowledge persistent dissatisfaction with the firings and changes that followed.

Richard Kinslow, an English teacher who was not sick, crying, said a new management team that was established was inexperienced and did not provide support for teachers or take action against rampant discipline problems, including what he said was physical and verbal abuse to staff by students.

“We do not have a sense of clarity in our leadership. We do not have a clear idea of their mission or vision. Communication was, again, terrible,” said Kinslow. “If I’m going to be thrown into the bus by my supposed leaders every day, where is my hope? Where is my team? Why should I work?”

But he said he was hopeful that a team of mediators to come to school might encourage cooperation.

Central High Falls became Exhibit A in a national debate on education reform at the school board last February has authorized the firing of all teachers. The school has been identified as one of the worst condition, and after discussions with the union broke down, the superintendent used a new option created by the Obama administration, allowing the firing of teachers challenged schools stage.

President Barack Obama seemed to endorse the shooting; saying drastic measures may be justified when schools show no sign of improvement.

The White House declined comment this week.

After months of negotiations, the teachers have been rehired after agreeing to work another day in school, subject to more rigorous assessments and provide more academic support. At the time, Gist said that the changes would result in “dramatic realization.”

That did not happen.

More than a dozen teachers – and sometimes over 20 – about 90 staff persons were absent during an average day this fall, including six long-term leave, “said Central Falls School Superintendent Frances Gallo. Fifteen teachers have left since August, including six who quit after the return, if the directors said they had one vacancy to be filled.

“It’s extremely frustrating, but more than that, I think it is extremely unprofessional,” said Gallo. “Teaching is to get a black eye, and why? Because teachers are not all equal to their vocation. ”

The directors held more than 450 classes in the first quarter after having decided on the participation of teachers was too unequal to measure student performance.

A clutch of students disrupted classes last month, and the president of the American Federation of Teachers held a news conference to support teachers.

Some students said they were tired of negative attention, arguing that teachers are the scapegoats for problems beyond their control. But some also said there are teachers and administrators who are not equipped to deal with disciplinary and academic problems.

“If we do not work, they redirect us. They come to us out of the classroom. How do we learn to take a shot every day?” Frankie asked Dehoyos, 14, a freshman. But he added, “We should all be ashamed -. Not only teachers, students’

Some parents are angry – some of them teachers, some administrators at both sides.

“Teachers have used their sick days. Almost every day they are absent, so that students do not receive much education, “said Jose Ortiz, as his daughter, Kyara, a student Central Falls, translated from Spanish. “Students do not pay attention in class because teachers do not help them.”

Gallo said teachers’ absences have affected the positive developments in Central Falls, including new school on Saturday, a new math program – and the fact that nearly 20 teachers have not missed a day of work.

Very Hispanic Central Falls is the smallest city in the poorest and Rhode Island with a population of nearly 19,000. A quarter of families live in poverty and 65 percent speak a language other than English at home. The city is under the control of a receiver appointed by the state, which says its problems are so severe that Central Falls should consider merging with neighboring Pawtucket.

“It was not easy to be fired for failure to test results in English and math when they already know that children are not at that level when we give them tests,” said JoAnn Boss a Spanish teacher who was on long-term sick leave for this fall.

Gist said that the school could improve if it continues to monitor its reform plan, which sets targets to increase the academic competence, increasing the graduation rate and improving student discipline.

But she and other officials have acknowledged that other drastic measures such as school closure or the replacement of teachers may be considered if things do not improve quickly.

“There are good reasons to hope he can get better,” said Robert Flanders, president of the state Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education. “Because it can not be worse.”

Copyright © 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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