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Some parents at Prospect Point Elementary school are not happy at having to give up their full time librarian next year. As part of the district’s $3.5 million cost savings plan, the district’s six elementary school librarians are being scaled back to three, who will each split their weeks at two schools. Susanne Karrels, a Prospect Point [...]Here’s one to share
I found this story on LA Times the other day and immediately sent it to my 14-year-old stepdaughter. The story is about Khadijah Williams, 18, a high school student who has been homeless her entire life and lived from shelter to shelter, and is now Harvard-bound. Williams shares an amazing story about the value of education [...]A Blue Ridge farewell
Blue Ridge parents didn’t want to see their principal, Connie Taylor-Randall, leave the school quietly. The district announced earlier this year that Taylor-Randall would be leaving the school to oversee Title I and staff training in district offices. Parents have grown attached to Taylor-Randall over the past several years, and attribute a change in the school, [...]Where are the parents?
It was almost two years ago that we covered the dedication of a new information and resource center geared for the area’s low-income families. The Walla Walla Parent Information and Resource Center — PIRC for short — was one of five that opened in the state in the fall of 2007. Funded with nearly $4 [...]A free pass and other treats
We have some coupons worth a free admission to any of the state’s children’s museums, as well as a recipe for making edible finger paint in our lobby this morning. These came courtesy of Thrive by Five, a state early learning agency. Anyone with young children (I’d have to say 5 and younger) can stop by [...]maria p. gonzalez's Page
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- What news organization do you work for?
- Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
- Which of these best describes your day job?
- Reporter
- About Me:
- I cover education and occasionally crime for a p.m. daily in Walla Walla, Wash. I'm also a working mom, with a 2-year-old boy at home and another boy on the way.
I keep a personal blog at www.beingmama.wordpress.com
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- http://www.union-bulletin.com
Maria p. gonzalez's Blog
Online comments on stories
We've had another backlash at our paper regarding online comments on the articles we publish online. We ran two stories (both written by me) that stirred a lot of emotion and angry responses. I've had more than one reader ask me why we allow comments on such controversial stories. One involved a middle school teacher being placed on leave for possibly touching a student inappropriately, the other a drug bust where we ran a photo of a toddler being carried out of the residence.
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Posted on January 28, 2008 at 1:56pm — 15 Comments
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