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Search results for "Title 1" ...
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East of St. Louis School District 189 investigation
This investigation into East St. Louis School District 189 shows misuse of funds and highlights questionable decisions at administrative levels for both academics and athletics. About 7,500 students attend classes in the district that has received constantly failing grades when compared to educations achievement statewide. The district receives millions in federal "Title 1" money because more than 90 percent of its students live blow the poverty line. However, this investigation revealed questionable use of those taxpayer funds. In September, the story took a turn and focused on the champion East St. Louis Flyers football team that was eventually kicked out of the state playoffs despite having an undefeated recored. In these stories, questionable practices by district officials regarding strict residency rules were revealed.
Tags: Title 1; academics; athletics; school; students; low-income; taxpayer; East St. Louis Flyers; football; School District 189; corruption; finance; FOI
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The F-School Bomb
"F-School Bomb" tells the story of English teacher Erika Selig's attempts to address a serious lack of discipline at Allapattah Middle School where she taught. Through Selig's eyes, readers were able to get a first-hand look into the daunting problems facing children, teachers and administrators inside a title 1 school. From racially charged fights between Hispanic and black students to the pressures of teaching students to pass Florida's standardized tests, Allapattah Middle School exemplified everything that is wrong with inner-city failing schools.
Tags: inner-city schools; education; standardized tests; race; public schools; juvenile delinquents; teaching
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How Much Is This Child Worth?
This series focuses on the discrepancies in school funding among the 537 schools examined by the magazine. They found a range of $2,200 to $8,600 in per-pupil funding for elementary schools;the range was $5,400 to $16,800 at the high school level. They also found that magnet schools who had selective enrollment practices and schools with better-off students tended to get more than their fair share. They used a tool they obtained from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform to analyze school district resources.
Tags: Arne Duncan; Chicago schools; federal Title 1 funds; school security; poverty funds; school budgets; Annenberg Institute for School Reform
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Questionable course
The Star-Telegram reveals how the Fort Worth school district spent $15 million for a largely untested computer math program that the superintendent proclaimed would eliminate the need for qualified math teachers. The program, doubted initially, ultimately fell short of promised achievements, yet superintendent Thomas Tocco charged ahead, blaming teachers, failing to inform the school board of problems, improperly diverting Title 1 money from the program and lobbying Congress to earmark money for the program maker, and persuading other school districts to buy the problematic program. Many educators endorsing the program had financial ties to the company.
Tags: CAR; Title 1; Fort Worth; Congress; Department of Education; Thomas Tocco; I CAN Learn; JRL Enterprises
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"Big - Time Jump", "NDSU Hits the Road for Donations", "Bison Jump on Fast Track", "Wealth of Potential at NDSU"
This investigation is "An analysis of the financial implications of North Dakota State's move from NCAA Division II to NCAA Division I athletics." Kolpack found that the school had to raise $1 million more to break even for the 1002-05 academic year, most of which went to fund an additional 50 athletic scholarships allowed by higher Division I regulations. The university's total budget is going form $6 million in 03-04 to almost $7.7 million for 04-05.
Tags: sports; college athletics; NDSU; bison; Title IX; athletic scholarships; athletes; tuition hikes
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AIDS office has stumbled in meeting needs
The Virginian-Pilot reports that "Norfolk has one of the worst track records in the country for using federal money to care for low-income AIDS patients. Over the past four years, the city has failed to spend an average of nearly $1 million annually from Title 1 of the Ryan White CARE Act, which pays to treat uninsured people with the disease."
Tags: AIDS; Norfolk; Virginia; AIDS clinics; funding; AIDS patients; public health; healthcare; federal money; low-income AIDS patients; grants; Eastern Virginia Medical School; Ryan White Title 1 program
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Women run up scholarship score, and it's men who are sold short. At many colleges and universities in eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois, male athletes still get more money --but less than their fair share, according to federal law.
The University of Missouri at Columbia spend $1.6 million a year on women's athletic scholarships and $1.9 million on athletic scholarships for men. In that $300,000 gap lies a violation of an aspect of Title IX, the federal law born to eliminate discrimination against women in education, especially in intercollegiate athletics. Other schools show similar gaps. A Post-Dispatch analysis shows that even while spending more in total for scholarships for male athletes, these schools are giving men less and women more than their fair shares under Title IX. The newspaper's findings contradict an impression of widespread discrimination against women in college athletic scholarships.
Tags: women; sports; scholarships; universities
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Tourney behind on bills; PGA even lost big since ' 98
The Baltimore Business Journal reports on the "financial trouble at the State Farm Senior Classic, a PGA Tour-sponsored golf tournament." As the tournament lost its title sponsor, State Farm Insurance, it accumulated $1.15 million in debts, and is now facing demise. Meanwhile, the organizers kept on increasing the prize money, the Journal reports.
Tags: FOI request; 990 form; IRS; sports; debts; creditors; business
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Keystone Bank Series
Messina chronicles the downfall of the First National Bank of Keystone, which was closed in early September 1999 after a federal fraud investigation. The bank, which had been listed as one of the most profitable community banks in the country, apparently listed $515 million in assets that it simply didn't have. Many depositors in impoverished McDowell County, in southern West Virginia, lost money when the bank closed. One couple lost $123,000 of their $223,000 retirement account fund (FDIC covered the remaining $100,000). Later articles revealed the possibility of insider trading by the bank's major stockholders: More than 59,000 shares of bank stock were sold between the time that investigators began a probe of the bank and its Sept. 1 shutdown. "The stockholders who sold their shares got $15 million. Those who bought the stock woke up Sept. 1 with worthless holdings."
Tags: FHA Title 1 loans; FDIC
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Our Town
"Take a look at the sad statistics of the Southeast Police Division, the deadliest neighborhood in Los Angeles. Now look again. While some are killing each other, others are working, raising kids and building dreams." In the LAPD's Southeast Division, also known as South-Central, crime and violence is a way of life. From January 1, 2000 to mid-December 76 people were killed, of those 23 were 21 years or younger. The area has been given the title of "deadliest police division in the city." But as Stewart finds, people in South-Central aren't willing to give up. Resident's are trying to revitalize the community through clean-up programs and make it a safer place for children through watch programs. Stewart collects stories of hope and devastations from the people who live in the "deadliest police division in the city."