...Miami School District Negotiation MGT/445 An increase in student enrollment has caused the demand for a restructure of the Miami School District. The school board has hired experts to redraw school boundaries to be submitted for next year. Under the restructure, there will be many students that will not be able to stay at his or her present schools. There will also be local businesses, homeowners, and other areas that are affected by the redistricting. At first talk of the redistricting the school district did not mention anything to the current stakeholders of the district. When the word of the redistricting gained the attention of parents, they starting voicing their opinions to the school board with the concerns of the quality of education, increased travel time, the crossing of economic and cultural boundaries, the effect of property values and the social effects of this move on the children. The following paper will address the concerns of the stakeholders, and the best way to handle the negotiation process between the Miami School District and its stakeholders. Quality of Education Parents of the children in the Miami School District are concerned of how the transition into a new school is going to affect their children. For the younger children in preschool and elementary the concerns are being in new surroundings, having new teachers and trying to make new friends. Some children will be taken away from their comfort zone. In the middle school and high school...
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...Miami School District Negotiation Paper The Miami school district has had an unexpected increase in enrollment. Thisunexpected increase has forced them to re-evaluate the upcoming year’s school boundaries. TheMiami school district has hired experts to redraw the school boundaries. The new plan meansthat many students will not be able to remain in their present schools. Parents are upset by thisand have voiced their concerns and objections to the proposed plan. The Miami school board willhave to educate the parents about the need for the new boundaries and the consequences if thenew boundaries are not established. The forthcoming paragraphs will evaluate the parentsconcerns and ways the board plans to address the various concerns and issues.Quality of EducationParents are concerned that the quality of their children’s education will be compromised by the new plan. Parents argue that their children are established in their current schools, withtheir current classmates, and moving them will be disruptive to their learning. Many parents havechosen the schools their children are currently attending, and purposely purchased homes in thearea because they wanted their children to attend the schools in the area. Parents are concernedthat the faculty in the other schools may not be as good or as qualified as the current schools.Parents of high school aged children entering their senior years are upset that the students willhave to change schools during their senior year possibly affecting...
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...Capetown High School [pic] Taking a Bite out of Education!!! Cougar ISD Capetown High School 1979 Shoreside Drive Capetown, Texas 73911 Principal- Scott Thomison Assistant Principal- Guillermo Altamirano Academic Counselor- Travis Cole Athletic Director- Mike Nelson Health & Fitness- Matt Tarbutton Counselor- Emilio Luna IT- John Kenna Mascot- Sharks School Colors- Navy Blue and White Motto- Taking a Bite out of Education! Mission Statement: To provide all learners with the leadership and knowledge of today. To prepare learners for the rigors of life, today, tomorrow, and the future. Principal- Scott Thomison Curriculum • There will be one core curriculum with equal access for all students regardless of the program/s. • To assure that students leaving the District's school possess the skills and knowledge to have a successful experience in higher education and in the workplace. • All teachers must turn in a bi weekly lesson plan to their department chair and approved before final approval from Principal. Faculty and Staff • All Faculty and Staff must sign in at the beginning and end of their day. Name badges must be visible above the waist and photo facing out. • You must park your car in your assigned space with tag hanging from rear view mirror facing out. • Teachers must be available to students at all times during the school day unless other arrangements have been prior. This falls under our open door...
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...Miami School District Negotiation MGT 445 August 30, 2011 Miami School District Negotiation When children move to a new school, it not only affects the children. It affects their families, the community, and the school. The school boundaries in Miami must be redrawn to concentrate on overcrowding. Experts are choosing and evaluating these boundaries. The affected stakeholders are experiencing concerns. One must first identify the stakeholders and their concerns before he or she can establish each of the concerns. Choosing a strategy for negotiation and reviewing the ethics and culture effects will ensure that the negotiation approach is applicable for the circumstances. In this paper the subject to analyze is a negotiation strategy that favors the board’s requirement to redraw school boundaries, identification of the stakeholders and how culture, and ethics affect the strategy. Stakeholders To originate an efficient negotiation strategy, one must identify the stakeholders and stakeholders concerns. The stakeholders in the Miami School District project are the students, parents, teachers, and school staff, and the community. The students are primary stakeholders because students who change schools will encounter a new teachers, campus, and classmates. Students will depart from the comfort of familiarity. The parents will experience the effects of a new environment for their children, and a different location of the new school. Teachers and staff will experience class...
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...1. What school district meeting did you attend? What was the date of the meeting? What issue(s) or topic(s) seemed to be the most important business before the board of education during your observation? The School district meeting that I attended was Fort Zumwalt School Districts board meeting. The date of the meeting was November 16th, 2015. During my observation, the most talked about topic at the meeting was the tax increase they wanted to put on the ballot in April. When they were talking about the 48 cent increase there was a man who was attending the meeting that wanted to know exactly what every cent was going towards if they were going to be doing this tax increase. Dr. Dubray explained to the man that we could not exactly break...
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...Miami School District Paper MGT/445 Miami School District The purpose of this paper is to help understand negotiation strategy that can be used to assist the Miami School District. It will also deal with understanding economical and cultural differences that rezoning can cause. The school district has made the decision to redraw the school attendance boundaries. This decision is based upon a higher number of applications for enrollment. This decision while a positive for the school system could pose unclaimed issues for parents. Another issue may be in effect on the students and their ability to deal with a new school. Many parents have banded together to oppose the rezoning of the school district. They are basing this on quality of education at new schools, increased travel for children and issues with socioeconomic differences. Objections Many parents are unhappy with the school districts plans for re-zoning the schools. Most opponents feel that re-zoning will decrease the education their child receives. One key issue is the lack of knowledge concerning the faculty of the new school. Another reason is that busing students to schools increases travel time to areas away from their home. It is possible that traveling far away from home can cause a hardship on the student as well as the parent. Lastly, some parents in more affluent areas will choose to register their children in private schools rather than have the mix with lower economic status students. Parents also feared...
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...The Miami school district is experiencing a common problem which many thriving cities face, rapid increase in enrollment. Increase in enrollment occurs due to the following reasons; demographics, location and economy (Miami Dade County School District, 2012). In order to adjust and accommodate the unexpected increase in enrollment, the school boundaries for the following year will be revised. The school board has hired experts to redraw the boundaries and notified parents of the changes that will occur next year. This paper addresses the concerns of the stakeholders, the negotiation strategy used by school board, and the ethical/cultural effect of the decision. Under the revised plan many students will not be able to continue their education at their present school. The decision was unexpected and many parents are outraged by the school board’s decision. The school board received several complaints from parents which voiced their concerns regarding the decision. The parents raised the following concerns: - Quality of education - Increased travel time - Crossing economic and cultural boundaries - Effect on property values - Social effects on children Parents are concerned that the quality of their children’s education will be compromised by the new plan. Parents argue that their children are established in their current schools, with their current classmates, and moving them will be disruptive to their learning. Many parents have chosen the schools their children are currently...
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...Miami School District Negotiation This essay on the Miami school district will help analyze the negotiation on the dramatic increases in enrollment and the proposed plan to redraw school boundaries. Also what are some of the major issues that will arise from this change and who are the key stakeholders that may be impacted? Anytime there is change it is expected to raise some eyebrows because of the number things affected, in this case there were several issues that needed to be addressed. What would be the best negotiation strategy for this change and will it work, also should the cultural and ethical aspects be taken into consideration because it may influence this decision. The Miami school district has recently announced a drastic increase in enrollment for the upcoming school year. Therefore, because of the nature of the change the school system had to hire some experts to redraw these school boundaries for next year. What this did was bring a natural reaction from the parents and that was complaints and voicing his or her concerns regarding this major decision. The chief concern with parents was with the soon to be quality of education there kids would receive and the affect from the implementation of the new changes. Most of the parents are curious and have tons of uncertainties with his or her child learning environment and the quality of teachers. With this new change it would leave many students no other choice but to change schools with maybe looking at...
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...Jamie Slorf Business entities, laws and regulations paper Bus. 415 9-12-11 University of Phoenix Pg.1 In this paper I ma going to write about the importance of following a business plan when opening a new business. When opening a new business you need to first have motivation. This is what will drive you to get the things done that are necessary to open your business. Having a business plan that is simple and easy to follow will help in the success of your business. Everything to get a business started relies on how much money you have to get started. If you don't have enough then you need to find ways to raise the fund needed. You don't want to start on something for your business unless you have the funds. This will only make it more difficult and stressful for you. The two businesses I would like to discuss are the restaurant and extermination business. First the restaurant business. Opening a sports bar today in not a new idea. Lou and Jose are going to need a fresh new idea when entering this market. It could be from the choices of food to the choices of entertainment...
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... Hazelwood School District V. Kuhlmeier in APA style Wilkes University Abstract In 1982, the principal of Hazelwood High School deemed two articles submitted by students to be unsuitable for circulation in the school newspaper, and had the pages removed. Principal Renalds felt the content of the articles, which referenced teenage pregnancy and divorce, would disrupt the learning environment at the school and endanger the wellbeing of students. The students felt that their first amendment rights were violated, and filed a suit against the school district. The case eventually reached the United States Supreme Court, which ruled that as long as the school had “a substantial and reasonable basis (Brandsberg-Engleman et al., 2002).” in removing the pages from the newspaper, it did not offend the first amendment rights of the students. The students of Hazelwood High School have the opportunity to add journalism to their curriculum. Journalism I is an introduction to the profession, and completing the requirements of the class allows students to advance to Journalism II. One requirement and privilege for Journalism II students is the responsibility of producing and publishing the school newspaper, titled “SPECTRUM.” The main goal of this project is to familiarize students with the “legal, moral, and ethical restrictions imposed upon journalist within the school community”, as well as teach them “responsibility...
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...to merge smaller school districts into larger school districts. This was done to improve education in rural areas, and also to deal with declining student populations in many school districts. The philosophy was that operating costs could be reduced by having larger districts that operate more efficiently. Larger districts would also allow for better utilization of teachers and availability of a larger variety of courses for students. There was the School District Reorganization Act of 1961 known as Act 561 of 1961; the School District Reorganization Act of 1963, known as Act 299 of 1963; and the School District Reorganization Act of 1968, known as Act 150 of 1968. For...
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...Thorton School District Do school uniforms violate a student's right to freedom of expression? Seniors at Thorton County School District recently challenged the schools uniform only dress code by coming to school out of uniform. Those students were expelled from school and were not allowed to graduate with their class for this act. These students were exercising their right to express themselves. Under the First Amendment, as long as you do anything that is not affecting or infringing on someone else's right, one should be able to do that. (www.firstamendmentcenter.org) Under the schools uniform dress policy students are prohibited from wearing hats or other head apparel as well. It can be said this may interfere with religious beliefs. Thus violating the first amendment to the constitution to “make no law respecting an established religion, or prohibiting the free exercise therof”… If a student is Jewish and wishes to wear his or her yarmulkes to school, should they be expelled for expressing their religion? The students at Thorton were not given a hearing prior to the expulsion, and many parents believe their children have the right to a hearing. The Constitution of the United States says we as Americans shall not deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of the law. Were the protesting student not deprived of the right to graduate with their class without a hearing for their actions? Thus violating the 14th amendment? Today many schools have adopted...
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...About two years ago a community meeting was held at H.M. Nailor IB World. In this meeting all parents were asked to vote if uniforms would be appropriate or inappropriate for students to wear. The controversy about implementing school uniforms in the school has been going on for quite some time now. The Cleveland School District is slowly enforcing the idea that students in grades kindergarten through third grade are already required to wear uniforms and fourth through eighth grade wearing uniforms is under deliberation. However the idea of wearing uniforms could prevent a lot of things. Wearing uniforms promotes safety, inequalities, and bullying. Uniforms are cost efficient. The parents do not have to worry about spending hundreds of dollars on expensive clothing like, Nike, Jordan, or Adidas. Keeping up with today’s trend has proven to be very costly. Parents can spend half the amount on uniforms that they would spend on clothing in today’s trend .For example, I have to buy uniform for my daughter and not my son because she is in grammar school where uniforms are worn but my son wears regular clothes. So that makes me spend more money on my son than my daughter. This will help a lot of parent to save money, pay bills on time, and buy other necessities. There are several stores around town that sale uniforms for a reasonable price. Looking Good and Wal-Mart are the best known sellers of uniforms in town. So parents do not have to travel out of their way and spend more money...
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...Organizational Challenges of District 60 School System Ian T. Snyder MGT 460 Leadership Priorities & Practice Instructor: Dr. Kathleen Henry May 22, 2014 Organizational Challenges of Pueblo’s District 60 School System Developing a strategy to provide the highest quality of public education to young people in the United States has proven to be a challenge for many school systems. Educators agree that one of the greatest factors that directly effects their students’ academic abilities is the existence of large individual differences in their learners. There are a variety of beliefs on how to deal with these individual differences which is illustrated in the variety of practices used to educate students in local school systems. This is a result from the fact that many school systems have a great deal of autonomy to create a varying mix of educational programs they feel will meet the needs of their respective diverse student populations. One school system in Pueblo, Colorado has faced such challenges as this school district is home to a very diverse student population that has experienced a significant decrease in the academic performance of its students over the last decade.(Report Card, 2011) In this paper, the author will discuss challenges faced by the administration of Pueblo’s District 60 school systems to provide diverse educational programs to their students and the impact re-organization has had on their academic performance. The author will...
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...in an action for declaratory judgment whereby the plaintiff seeks, first, a determination that the contract wherein the plaintiff agreed to supply milk to the defendant school district at an agreed price be terminated without further liability on the grounds of legal "impossibility" or "impracticality" because of the occurrence of events not contemplated by the parties which makes performance impracticable and, second, a determination that the defendant school district has authority to unilaterally relieve the plaintiff of its contract without violating Rules The courts look at two elements in determining whether a person is able to be excused from their contract. In looking at the element of just cause, courts further analyze two factors: reasonable actions and the environment in which the actions take place. If a person suspects that he is being deprived of property legally attached to him and he can show that his suspicions are reasonable then he is said to have a reasonable suspicion. Courts also look at whether the activity in question took place in an environment where contracts fluctuating is common. Public schools are considered to be more justifiable places where a person could have just cause for reasonable suspicion in comparison to private schools or sparsely populated areas with smaller districts. In looking at the other element of authority, the courts tend to favor people directly charged with handling the contract as people with the authority to determine if...
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