This provocative forum will bring together many of DC’s mayoral, Council chair and at-large candidates to debate and discuss public education issues in this important election year.

Date/Time/Location

Wednesday, August 18, 2010 6:30pm – 8:30pm   The Charles Sumner School 1201 17^th Street NW Washington, DC 20005

  About the Event

This provocative forum will bring together many of DC’s mayoral, Council chair and at-large candidates to debate and discuss public education issues in this important election year.

Confirmed Candidate Participants

Leo Alexander (mayoral) Suliamon Brown (mayoral) Ernest Johnson (mayoral) Kwame Brown (Council chair) Vincent Orange (Council chair) Ann Wilcox (Council chair) Michael Brown (at-large) Phil Mendelson (at-large) David Swartzman (at-large) Darryl Moch (at-large)

Organized by

The forum is organized by The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region in conjunction with Communities for Education Organizing (CEO), a coalition of DC-based organizations working to improve public education in the District of Columbia. The coalition is comprised of progressive nonprofit organizations including DC Language Access           Coalition, DC VOICE, Empower DC, S.T.E.P. Up DC, and You

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In the wake of the news that Penn State was considering a move to Division I hockey, a few bits of information have come out in response to it.

The first is a quote from CCHA commish Tom Anastos saying the CCHA is interested:

“They are a very attractive choice — very attractive,” CCHA commissioner Tom Anastos told The Detroit News on Tuesday. “They’re in a different market than we’re in, more and more U.S. players are on college rosters, and there’s tremendous growth of the sport in Pennsylvania.”

Again, Huntsville meets all those criteria as well. Pretty much all of the growth of the sport in Pennsylvania is centered in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, both about a solid 3-hour trek to the wilderness of State College, PA. That same radius put around Huntsville gets you the growing hockey markets of Nashville and Atlanta. Of course there are other huge advantages Penn State has, likely biggest among them is a huge alumni network of potential fans. You could probably draw more interest for PSU hockey in Atlanta than you could for UAH hockey.

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Just a few more days until things get wonderfully crazy. If you are a blog reading person you should be following the the tag “SHOTime” on PSU blogs (or just click here). Our upperclass mentors are sharing about their favorite courses, the summer reading projects, and engagement opportunities at Penn State.

This morning our Leadership Jumpstart students and TAs have arrived and are off to Camp Blue Diamond for their retreat. Mentors arrive Tuesday and first year students get here on Wednesday! It should be a great three days and we are all geared up and ready!

If you have any questions be sure to take a look at the schedule and information online: SHO Time. See you soon!

And for our parents, it is going to be OK:

by Zyglis

An article in the Aug. 9 edition of the Richmond Times-Dispatch celebrates the life of Alice Cole, an alumna of the St. Philip School of Nursing. Raised in Richmond, Va., Cole worked as a public health nurse in Petersburg from the 1960s until she retired in 1985. Throughout her life, Cole made significant contributions to nursing, education and civil rights.

Revenue Increased 33% to $13.6 Million Adjusted Cash Flow from Operations Increased 32% to $5.0 Million Adjusted Diluted EPS was $0.10 Company Reiterates 2010 Guidance

Archipelago Learning, Inc. (Nasdaq:ARCL), a leading subscription-based online education company, today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2010.

Second Quarter Highlights (2Q10 vs. 2Q09):

Archipelago Learning Including EducationCity:

• Revenue increased 33% to $13.6 million
• Adjusted cash flow from operations (non-GAAP) increased 32% to $5.0 million (excluding approximately $3.3 million of EducationCity acquisition related cash costs)
• Invoiced sales (non-GAAP) increased 33% to $15.7 million
• Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP) increased 30% to $7.8 million
• Adjusted diluted earnings per share was $0.10

Archipelago Learning Excluding EducationCity:

• Revenue increased 27% to $13.1 million
• Invoiced sales (non-GAAP) increased 23% to $14.6 million
• Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP) increased 21% to $7.2 million

Tim McEwen, chief executive officer, stated, “We are very pleased with our second quarter results, as our high impact and low cost value proposition continued to resonate with educators, even in a time of difficult school budget pressures.

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