stories from an ordinary life …
For Your Approval posted a great list of career advice for new PR students. In short:
Yep, completely agree.
From the Houston Chronicle’s School Zone blog:
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After meeting in closed session for about an hour, the board also unanimously approved his amended employment contract — which, in a nutshell, guarantees Saavedra his $327,010 base salary through next March, even if the board finds a new superintendent before then.
That means the district could be paying Saavedra and a new superintendent at the same time, though Saavedra’s attorney, Vidal Martinez, predicts the overlap won’t be much since superintendent searches can take a while.
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KIPP expanding single-gender school program
Charter for boys will soon have a girls’ campus nearby
— Houston Chronicle2
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The campus, KIPP Voyage Academy, is expected to be Houston’s first all-girls public school. Nationally, the number of single-gender public schools has jumped from 11 in 2002 to 518 now, according to the National Association for Single Sex Public Education.
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Footnotes
2 = article may expire in a few weeks.
The Cision blog lists “eight terrific conferences” for media relations in 2009:
And I’m probably not going to make a single one.
On the corner of Waugh and Hyde Park in Houston, Texas a typical 20 foot shipping container has been adapted into a sustainable “green” design for the offices of Mirabeau B. Condominiums.
Powered by the solar panels, their last energy bill was NEGATIVE $193.
Their proposed development boasts an array of sustainable design components from green screens and roofs to energy efficient HVAC systems and a water retention system.
Interesting. I wonder what you can do to an existing house to help with energy efficiency.
