Good Evening Commissioners: Thank you for providing the opportunity to address you tonight. My name is Robin Lane. I live at 3526 Primrose Avenue, Greensboro, NC 27408. Tonight I am speaking with the third annual request from Project ONE, the group I represent. This year the Covid 19 pandemic adds a real sense of urgency […]
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Letters to the editor-Nurses are still lacking in our public schools
Nurses are still lacking in our public schools Before the COVID-19 crisis crashed into our daily lives, you may have recognized the value in having a health professional available to students during their school day. The school nurse is that professional. Nurses keep students healthy, in their classes, ready to learn. With or without pandemics, […]
It’s More Than Pay: Striking Teachers Demand Counselors and Nurses
In a typical week, Adrienne Vaccarezza-Isla, a school counselor in Chicago, might help a dozen eighth graders apply to high schools across the city. Or try to convince a mother that her daughter, who had seen her get shot years earlier, should join a group for students dealing with trauma. Or work with sixth and […]
School Nurse Shortage
Spring 2019-In national news: CBS aired this story about the national school nurse shortage crisis in their “School Matters” series. See the link to watch or read the whole story. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nurse-shortages-at-schools-could-be-putting-your-child-at-risk/ Lets continue our advocacy efforts to ensure ONE nurse in every school in Guilford County!
Report shows worrisome trend of suicides among N.C. youth increasing
Child health experts are startled by the steady increase of adolescent suicides in North Carolina, with the state experiencing twice the rate of deaths among older children as it did a decade ago. Suicide is now the second-leading cause of death of children from age 10 to 17, topped only by motor vehicle deaths, according […]
Los Angeles Teachers’ Strike to End as Deal Is Reached
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles public school teachers reached a deal with officials on Tuesday to end a weeklong strike that had affectedmore than half a million students, winning an array of supplementary services after an era in education marked by attacks on traditional public schools and their teachers. The deal showed the clout the teachers’ […]
Los Angeles’ striking teachers reach ‘historic’ settlement with school district
LOS ANGELES — A tentative deal announced Tuesday could end the six-day teachers’ union strike in the nation’s second-largest school district. Negotiators for the Los Angeles Unified School District reached an agreement with the United Teachers Los Angeles in the early hours of Tuesday morning after a 21-hour bargaining session. Teachers are scheduled to vote […]
Governor’s Leandro commission looks at North Carolina’s school support personnel
Student success has to do with more than academic instruction and performance. School support personnel provide much-needed services to address other factors of the “whole child” — physical, social, and behavioral health and wellbeing. Yet in schools across North Carolina, these “specialized instructional support personnel” (SISP) are stretched thin. In presentations from school nurses, psychologists, […]
THE LOS ANGELES TEACHERS’ STRIKE IS ABOUT MORE THAN MONEY—HERE’S WHY SCHOOL NURSES MUST BE SAVED
Think back to all the schools you went to growing up, and then picture them without the nurse’s office. That’s right, nowhere to seek refuge when you scraped up your knees playing kickball, felt nauseous after downing too many pizza slices at lunch, or unexpectedly got your period during pre-calc. It’s even more distressing than […]
State to overhaul formula for funding school nurses
RALEIGH, N.C. — The state is poised to make changes in how it pays for school nurses. The Joint Legislative Program Evaluation Oversight Committee voted Monday to ask state school and health officials to overhaul the funding formula, which has been based for years on a per-student ratio. Low-income and rural school districts say that […]