Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 06:21:57 -0700 (PDT) From: jessea@uclink4.berkeley.edu (Jessea NR Greenman) Subject: RAINBOW PRIDE WEB PAGE || action alert re PA Parental Rights bill || CA Curriculum Commission Alert -- June meetings || (NH) Culliton Case Update 5-28 Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 16:49:47 -0700 To: jessea@uclink4.berkeley.edu From: WHITE_MIKE/NEWHAV_LO@mail.nhusd.k12.ca.us Subject: RAINBOW PRIDE WEB PAGE On Thursday, May 23, the Rainbow Pride Club at James Logan High School posted its first web page on the school's home page under "Student Groups - Rainbow Pride". The page is made up a history of the club, back ground on the school district's efforts concerning GLBT youth and employees, statements from students with recommendation for events and programs for the high school, and a statement from the page's creator. The page is the result of a Masters project I have been working on all year, and th e club and I would like people to visit our site, and give us feedback. The page can be found at: http://www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us - under Student Groups - Rainbow Pride Mike White Co. of Non-Inst. Services James Logan High School e-mail mike_white@nh.nhusd.k12.ca.us --------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 21:50:23 -0400 To: pa-expose@critpath.org (Pennsylvania Expose List), ftr-pa (Fight the Right PA list), schools@mtcc.com (The Schools List) From: Maggie Heineman Subject: PA Parental rights Bill We have a report that HB 2105 (PA Parental Rights) will be up for a vote in the Pennsylvania House on **June 5.** Parental Rights legislation has a nice title and it's a favorite of the religious right. The article below describes the federal legislation so details may be somewhat different in the bills in each state, but you get the idea. Pennsylvanians: contact your State representatives and tell them you oppose HB 2105. Reason- it's a part of the religious right attack on public education. Do you know who your state legislator is? Do you have the phone number, address, and fax number? [The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project adds: The state goverment's Home Page is at URL: http://www.state.pa.us/government.html The State Senate's Home Page (lists members and committees, etc): http://www.pasen.gov/senate.html ] ============ The following article was published in the March 22, 1996 issue of "Pennsylvania Expose." B. HB 2105--The "Parental Rights" bill in Pennsylvania Compiled from alerts from the Pennsylvania State Education Association's Committee for the Preservations of Public Education and The Fight the Right Network's Research Working Group This contradictory piece of legislation voids existing decisions and usurps local control. The title, "Local Control Restoration Act" misrepresents its intent. HB 2105 is sponsored by Rohrer, Gamble, Pitts and others and contains the Parental Rights Amendment favored by the hard right. Control is shifted not to the local community but to individual parents. The nationwide movement is promoted in the March 20 issue of the faxletter from the Focus on the Family. The faxletter, "Family Issues Alert" pushes the U.S. HR 1947 "Parental Rights and Responsibilities Act" which now has 140 sponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Pennsylvania Family Institute has launched a new publication, "Families and Schools." The lead article in Vol.1. No.1. is by Rep. Samuel E. Rohrer (R, 128, the lead sponsor of PA HB 2105. Rohrer writes, "Outcome-based education (OBE), Goals 2000, and just about every other initiative of official departments of education strike at the heart of traditional education. The one common element of all these `new' educational approaches is the embracing of secular humanism, which is the exalting of man's philosophy of life and the trampling of the Christian view of life. . . . This bill is the first in the nation [P.E.R.S.O.N. note: WRONG! PA's bill is NOT the first in the nation...be on the alert, as there may well be a similar bill working its way through YOUR state legislature right now!] and focuses strictly on the issue of control." --------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- [folks, whatever state you live in, please consider getting on your state board of education/ state department of education mailing lists to stay informed about meetings. Then, attend public meetings to advocate for inclusion in the curriculum of fair and accurate information about LGBT people and sexual orientation.] CA Curriculum Commission Alert: Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission An advisory body to the California State Board of Education PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE ***English-Language Arts Curriculum Framework and Criteria Committee*** June 5-6, 1996 Sacramento City Unified School District Headquarters First Floor Conference Room 520 Capitol Mall, Sacramento PURPOSE To begin work on the development of the English-Language Arts Framework The meetings will begin: June 5: 10:00 am June 6: start 8:00 am The ending times will vary and will be determined by the committee. Lunch will be called at the discretion of the committee chair. THESE MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FOR MORE INFORMATION: Danae Luke Curriculum Frameworks and Instructional Resources Offfce California Department of Education 721 Capitol Mall, 6th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 657-3023 (or, by mail P O Box 944272 Sacramento, CA 94244-2720) Distributed and posted May 21,1996 --------------------------- [ANOTHER PUBLIC MEETING, ALSO IN JUNE...] PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE Curriculum Commission June 23-28, 1996 ***Instructional Resources Evaluation Panel Deliberations*** Red Lion's Sacramento Inn 1401 Arden Way, Sacramento (916) 922-9041 PURPOSE Instructional Resources Evaluation Panel Members Deliberations on Programs Submitted for the 1996 Adoptions in English-Language Arts and English as a Second Language Instructional Resources Evaluation Panel Members (IREP) members will discuss the programs submitted for adoption and prepare written evaluations. Publishers participating in the adoptions will also be responding to questions from the IREP. The meetings are scheduled to begin: June 23: 7:00 pm June 24 - June 28: 7:30 am The meetings will include working sessions, which will likely extend into the evening. Each panel will determine the need to meet in the evening. THESE MEETNGS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Seating is **very limited.** FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO CONFIRM STARTING TIMES: Nora Reed Curriculum Frameworks and Instructional Resources Office California Department of Education 721 Capitol Mall, 6th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 657-3023 (or, by mail: P. O. Box 944272, Sacramento, CA 94244-2720) Distributed and posted May 21, 1996 ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 13:10:31 -0400 To: jessea@uclink4.berkeley.edu From: culliton@handel.jlc.net (Penny Culliton) Subject: Culliton Case Update 5-28 Culliton Case Update 5-28 BELOW IS AN UPDATE ON WHAT IS HAPPENING IN MY CASE. IF YOU RECEIVE THIS MESSAGE AND ARE UNCLEAR ON THE ORIGIN OF ALL THIS, PLEASE E-MAIL ME PRIVATELY AT culliton@jlc.net (make your subject line "Need Culliton Info".) and I will send you an whole chronology. --- Penny Culliton =============Begin Update================= April 1, 1996 Mascenic Board votes to create a new course, an elective for juniors and seniors entitled "Literature in Society" in which the books will be included. The Board also votes that the books may never be used in any other class. April 2, 1996 Arbitrator rules that Culliton should receive a one-year suspension instead of a dismissal and be reinstated at Mascenic starting with the 1996-1997 school year. c. April 16 The course Literature in Society will NOT be offered the following school year because as of this time, according to school officials, not enough students have signed up for it. April 15, 1996 The Mascenic School Board announces its decision to appeal the arbitrator's ruling, saying they will take the case to Superior Court. Board also vetoes a proposed policy banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in the district. Board's attorney claims that such a non-discrimination policy would open the door for "more repugnant forms of sexual orientation." April 18, 1996 MEA files Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) complaint against Mascenic Board with NH Public Employee Labor Relations Board (PELRB), citing that the contract at the time of the original dispute did not give either the party the right to appeal a binding arbitration decision to Superior Court. Either side could appeal PELRB's findings to NH Supreme Court. April 24 and May 2, 1996 Mascenic District files response to MEA ULP and files a Petition for Declaratory Judgement and Stay of Arbitration Decision.These documents ask that the PELRB declare the arbitrator's ruling illegal under NH law on the basis that the arbitrator overstepped his authority in changing the penalty for Culliton's insubordination from dismissal to suspension and that he made a plain mistake of fact in saying that Culliton had no prior history of discipline; and also that while any findings are being made, that the arbitrator's decision not be implemented. (District does not file anything with Superior Court.) May 17, 1996 MEA files an objection with the PELRB to the District's Petition for Declaratory Judgement and Stay of Arbitration Decision, asking that the arbitrator's decision be implemented immediately so that Culliton can immediately begin her preparations to return to the classroom in the 1996-97 school year. (Teachers in the district are supposed to receive course assignments for the next year by the last day of this school year or June 30, whichever comes first. For the arbitrator's decision to be stayed would mean that Culliton would not have the same amount of time as other teachers to prepare for the coming year, thus placing her at a disadvantage.) June 20, 1996 PELRB Hearing on both the ULP and the District's petition. =============End Update================= (You may re-post) Penny Culliton culliton@jlc.net Wilton, NH *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ OK TO RE-POST. Jessea Greenman The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project (Public Education Regarding Sexual Orientation Nationally) CHECK THIS OUT FOR TONS OF INFO - - http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/ Please cc us (for our files) on correspondence you send or receive re our action alerts. "As a straight, caucasian adoptive mother of two daughters of African ancestry, I'd much prefer to have RuPaul teaching my children in a classroom than any one of your hate-mongering ilk." said by one of our new subscribers to the religious political extremists in her area.