Note: This article is about Steve Aveson, a one time Baltimore Journalist. It mentions a Providence, RI charter school run by a Christian Brother.
Whatever happened to... Steve Aveson?
The Baltimore Sun
Jacques Kelly
February 23, 2008
When WJZ-TV's Evening Magazine went off the air at the end of 1990, its popular co-host, Steve Aveson, went on to gain a national audience.
He moved to New York and spent four years at ABC News as a Good Morning America and 20/20 correspondent. He also was an anchor for ABC News programs, including World News This Morning, Good Morning America Sunday and Discovery News, a science program. He also had a stint with the broadcast division of The Christian Science Monitor and then returned to a metro market as an anchor at Fox 25 in Boston.
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In his free time, he mentors at-risk boys in a Providence charter school run by a Christian Brother. He also works with the Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Rhode Island and the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
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Saturday, February 23, 2008
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Notre Dame Catholic School closing
By Nancy Pasternack
The Appeal-Democrat
Marysville, CA
When teachers at Notre Dame Catholic School received the bad news last week, they gave their students an extra-long recess outdoors, and cried.
Then they pulled themselves together and threw the Valentine's Day party the children were expecting.
After more than 150 years of offering catechism instruction along with reading, writing and arithmetic, Notre Dame Catholic School in Marysville will graduate its last eighth-grade class this year.
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Broughton and an advisory board made up of parents and students already have begun the process of trying to create a new public charter school within the Marysville Joint Unified School District.
Hopefully, Broughton said, "we'll be able to continue the school, but without the religious instruction."
The group will model the charter school on one in Paradise that has a similar history and population, Broughton said.
Eisermann, Kemmerly and the school's other teachers say they support the charter school idea, and that they will teach at the new school, if it comes to fruition.
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The Appeal-Democrat
Marysville, CA
When teachers at Notre Dame Catholic School received the bad news last week, they gave their students an extra-long recess outdoors, and cried.
Then they pulled themselves together and threw the Valentine's Day party the children were expecting.
After more than 150 years of offering catechism instruction along with reading, writing and arithmetic, Notre Dame Catholic School in Marysville will graduate its last eighth-grade class this year.
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Broughton and an advisory board made up of parents and students already have begun the process of trying to create a new public charter school within the Marysville Joint Unified School District.
Hopefully, Broughton said, "we'll be able to continue the school, but without the religious instruction."
The group will model the charter school on one in Paradise that has a similar history and population, Broughton said.
Eisermann, Kemmerly and the school's other teachers say they support the charter school idea, and that they will teach at the new school, if it comes to fruition.
Follow this link for the full original article.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Ross County Christian Academy is growing
Ross County Christian Academy is growing
Officials still hoping for permanent home
By JONA ISON
Gazette Staff Writer
Ross County Christian Academy is gearing up for a second year of operation and hopes to expand services.
Although the academy still hopes to have a permanent home of its own one day, Brookside Church on Egypt Pike has agreed to allow the academy to operate there again for the 2008-09 school year, said Mike MacCarter, co-director of the academy.
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The school serves students in kindergarten through sixth grade, but if enrollment warrants it, the academy will expand to include seventh grade in 2008-09. Also, an interest survey has been distributed to the academy's endorsing churches to determine if there enough families interested in preschool to create a preschool program at the academy.
Beginning next school year, MacCarter said the academy hopes it will be approved as a state charter school.
"They have some regulations with curriculum, which we're doing most of those already," MacCarter said.
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Officials still hoping for permanent home
By JONA ISON
Gazette Staff Writer
Ross County Christian Academy is gearing up for a second year of operation and hopes to expand services.
Although the academy still hopes to have a permanent home of its own one day, Brookside Church on Egypt Pike has agreed to allow the academy to operate there again for the 2008-09 school year, said Mike MacCarter, co-director of the academy.
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The school serves students in kindergarten through sixth grade, but if enrollment warrants it, the academy will expand to include seventh grade in 2008-09. Also, an interest survey has been distributed to the academy's endorsing churches to determine if there enough families interested in preschool to create a preschool program at the academy.
Beginning next school year, MacCarter said the academy hopes it will be approved as a state charter school.
"They have some regulations with curriculum, which we're doing most of those already," MacCarter said.
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Friday, January 25, 2008
Catholic school closings: Parents race
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
On Tuesday morning, Carolyn Hanna toured Archangel School in Irondequoit, where she plans to send her three children if Bishop Matthew Clark follows through with closing St. John of Rochester School in Perinton.
In addition to pictures of Martin Luther King, Amelia Earhart and Anne Frank, students at the school had decorated the walls with colorful renditions of Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Elizabeth Seton.
Inclusion of such religious heroes matters to Hanna, whose children attend one of 13 Catholic schools in Monroe County that are slated to close in June.
Since the decision was announced Friday, hundreds of parents have met to devise strategies to persuade the bishop to save their schools. Catholic schools not affiliated with the diocese, such as Archangel, have been flooded with requests for enrollment information.
Some Catholic school supporters have called for the Rochester Roman Catholic Diocese to follow a national trend of converting doomed schools to "values-based" charter schools.
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On Tuesday morning, Carolyn Hanna toured Archangel School in Irondequoit, where she plans to send her three children if Bishop Matthew Clark follows through with closing St. John of Rochester School in Perinton.
In addition to pictures of Martin Luther King, Amelia Earhart and Anne Frank, students at the school had decorated the walls with colorful renditions of Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Elizabeth Seton.
Inclusion of such religious heroes matters to Hanna, whose children attend one of 13 Catholic schools in Monroe County that are slated to close in June.
Since the decision was announced Friday, hundreds of parents have met to devise strategies to persuade the bishop to save their schools. Catholic schools not affiliated with the diocese, such as Archangel, have been flooded with requests for enrollment information.
Some Catholic school supporters have called for the Rochester Roman Catholic Diocese to follow a national trend of converting doomed schools to "values-based" charter schools.
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
Brazoria County Year in Review
April 27, 2007: Columbia Christian School announces it will close May 31, but longtime students can take classes in the same buildings as a public charter school, West Columbia Charter School, is set to open in its place.
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Monday, December 24, 2007
A ghost of 19th-century bigotry haunts New York City
By GEORGE F. WILL
The Washington Post
HARLEM (or maybe not) — Asked whether his brownstone residence is in Harlem, the Rev. Michel Faulkner says, well, that depends. "When something bad happens, the neighborhood is called Harlem. When something good happens, it is the Upper West Side." Faulkner is trying to make something good happen, but is opposed by a U.S. speaker of the House who died 114 years ago but whose mischief goes marching on.
Faulkner, 50, is an African-American who played defensive line for Virginia Tech and, briefly, the New York Jets. Recoiling from what he calls "the social and community chaos" he saw growing up in Washington's Anacostia section, and that he blamed on Lyndon Johnson's Great Society welfarism, Faulkner served as vice president for urban ministry at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. He left that sedate environment to minister to the down-and-out around Times Square, before its sinfulness had been scrubbed away.
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The Washington Post
HARLEM (or maybe not) — Asked whether his brownstone residence is in Harlem, the Rev. Michel Faulkner says, well, that depends. "When something bad happens, the neighborhood is called Harlem. When something good happens, it is the Upper West Side." Faulkner is trying to make something good happen, but is opposed by a U.S. speaker of the House who died 114 years ago but whose mischief goes marching on.
Faulkner, 50, is an African-American who played defensive line for Virginia Tech and, briefly, the New York Jets. Recoiling from what he calls "the social and community chaos" he saw growing up in Washington's Anacostia section, and that he blamed on Lyndon Johnson's Great Society welfarism, Faulkner served as vice president for urban ministry at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. He left that sedate environment to minister to the down-and-out around Times Square, before its sinfulness had been scrubbed away.
Link to the full article
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Fighting History In Harlem
George F. Will
Thursday, December 6, 2007; Page A29
Washington Post
Faulkner, 50, is an African American who played defensive line for Virginia Tech and, briefly, the New York Jets. Recoiling from what he calls "the social and community chaos" that he saw growing up in Anacostia, and that he blamed on Lyndon Johnson's Great Society welfarism, Faulkner served as vice president for urban ministry at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. He left that sedate environment to minister to the down-and-out around Times Square, before its sinfulness had been scrubbed away.
Now he wants to create a charter school -- a public school enjoying considerable autonomy from, among other burdens, teachers unions. It would be affiliated with his New Horizon Church. But New York's constitution has a Blaine Amendment.
Link to the original article
Thursday, December 6, 2007; Page A29
Washington Post
Faulkner, 50, is an African American who played defensive line for Virginia Tech and, briefly, the New York Jets. Recoiling from what he calls "the social and community chaos" that he saw growing up in Anacostia, and that he blamed on Lyndon Johnson's Great Society welfarism, Faulkner served as vice president for urban ministry at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. He left that sedate environment to minister to the down-and-out around Times Square, before its sinfulness had been scrubbed away.
Now he wants to create a charter school -- a public school enjoying considerable autonomy from, among other burdens, teachers unions. It would be affiliated with his New Horizon Church. But New York's constitution has a Blaine Amendment.
Link to the original article
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