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		<title>Does Education Need To Help Boys Too?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 08:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When schools report their scores to the WCUSD board, I many times will ask for break outs on gender differences. We get information on race, economic status, special education, english language learners etc.. The state doesn&#8217;t require a breakout on gender. Too many, including at least one WCUSD board member refuse to acknowledge what the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insidewcusd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2580612&amp;post=12&amp;subd=insidewcusd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Which Teacher Will Get The Lay Off Notice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 08:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This cartoon was published byLAObserved.com. WCUSD has many wonderful teachers. We do have a few bad ones and once they have tenure it is almost impossible to protect our classrooms from them.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insidewcusd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2580612&amp;post=10&amp;subd=insidewcusd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John Shewmaker, Leave My Kids Out Of It!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For over a year I have been attacked falsely on various blogs. These attacks were always anonymous. Today, I finally found out whom the coward was that was doing it. As it turns out that someone was John Shewmaker. John Shewmaker is a failed several times over school board candidate and gadfly that is also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insidewcusd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2580612&amp;post=7&amp;subd=insidewcusd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WCUSD Majority Support Tax Increases</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the last meeting of the West Covina Unified School District the board majority, (Jessica Shewmaker, George Fuller and Camie Poulos) voted to support a resolution to support &#8220;new revenue sources” to solve the state&#8217;s budget problem. The resolution itself contains no effort to streamline bureaucracy or cut out waste in the budget, the only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insidewcusd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2580612&amp;post=6&amp;subd=insidewcusd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Convicts to run West Covina Unified?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new board majority thinks convicted felons, those that have abused their spouse or child and those that leaked information sould be board President. I&#8217;m not making this up.  Three Board members (Jessica Shewmaker, Camie Polous and George Fuller) changed board policy over the last month to automatically rotate the top positions of the board like President, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insidewcusd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2580612&amp;post=5&amp;subd=insidewcusd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The dirty secret behind the Edison School Renewal.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[West Covina&#8217;s top performing school&#8217;s charter was renewed last week. While the vote was 5-0, the vote doesn&#8217;t end the problem with the numbers the district is using. At the beginning the District claimed the the Edison School was costing the district over a million dollars. They and a few board members claimed that this money [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insidewcusd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2580612&amp;post=4&amp;subd=insidewcusd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why a WCUSD Blog?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why a blog about WCUSD? It is  pretty simple. I want more people to know what is going on in the West Covina Unified School District. A few weeks ago we had a discussion as a board about televising or webcasting our board meetings. For along time I was concerned about the cost of televising [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insidewcusd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2580612&amp;post=1&amp;subd=insidewcusd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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