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Medtronic commits $6 million to address cardiovascular disease, diabetes care in India
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Washington: One year after the historic United Nations High Level Meeting on Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), Medtronic on Friday announced a five-year, $6 million (Rs 32 crore) philanthropic commitment in India to accelerate programmes specifically designed to expand access to quality care and management of diabetes and heart disease, two of the world?s leading killers.
?Coming out of the UN High Level Meeting, it?s been our pledge to help drive action at the country level, and then share those results globally,? said Dr Jacob Gayle, executive director of the Medtronic Foundation and vice president, Medtronic Community Affairs. ?By focusing on diabetes and cardiovascular disease, we hope to strengthen overall health systems in order to expand access in underserved communities. Given both the need and opportunity in India, it was clear that we needed to ramp up our support to help those already working to improve care.?
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is currently the leading cause of death in urban and rural India, killing three million people each year. India is also home to more than 60 million diabetics ? more than any other country.
?Chronic diseases have reached epidemic proportions in India,? said Dr K Srinath Reddy of the Public Health Foundation of India, who spoke with Gayle at a September 21 press briefing. ?Less than half of the people living with these diseases are diagnosed and receiving treatment. A concerted effort toward addressing this burden of NCDs requires strengthening the health system through an innovative, multi-sectoral approach.?
On September 20, the Medtronic Foundation convened a group of community health experts, non-profits, academia and the private sector in New Delhi.
Among those attending were several Medtronic Foundation grantees in India including Dr D Prabhakaran from the Centre for Chronic Disease Control in New Delhi and Dr Nikhil Tandon from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), who recently launched a pilot programme funded by the Medtronic Foundation in Himachal Pradesh using high-tech healthcare tools and community health worker training to better screen, diagnose and treat diabetes and CVD patients.
Using a ?continuum of care? framework to guide the conversation, participants identified barriers and gaps within the current health system in order to collectively explore solutions to strengthen health systems.
Since 2010, the Medtronic Foundation has committed more than $7.5 million in NCD-related grants, including $1.2 million to NCD-related efforts in India. Moving forward, the Foundation will continue to increase global funding to expand access to NCD care for underserved communities, specifically focusing on efforts to recruit, train and equip frontline health workers, and to help reinforce patient-centred approaches to health promotion.
With NCDs accounting for more than 60 per cent of all deaths worldwide, UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon called upon the world?s businesses to help address NCDs, which are expected to increase by 50 per cent in developing countries by 2030. NCDs account for roughly 75 per cent of healthcare costs in both advanced and developing economies, according to the World Economic Forum.
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Chinese-language fliers get Nebraska's message out
If you want to tell your story around the world, make sure you communicate.
That's the idea behind hundreds of Chinese-language fliers that Nebraska officials handed out to business owners and others during their recent trade mission to Beijing, Xi'an and Shanghai, China.
Alongside a color image of Warren Buffett, the flier tells in Chinese why Buffett chose to work and live in Nebraska, how he started his investment company here and how successful it has been.
The title, as translated by Pingan Huang of the Confucius Institute at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln:
?To choose Nebraska to live and work is a decision no easier to make.?
The overall message is that long-term investments in Nebraska succeed, said Joe Chapuran, international development manager for the Nebraska Department of Economic Development. ?It seems to be almost the No. 1 piece of marketing material we have.?
International business people often are surprised that Buffett lives and works in Omaha, Chapuran said, so the flier attracts attention and resonates with business owners who are deciding where to make investments.
Besides contact information for the department and ?Berkshire Hathaway,? the poster uses only three other words in English ? a description of Buffett's investment philosophy: ?Buy and Hold.?
Giving Pledge
The Giving Pledge has 11 more signers, bringing the total to 92 wealthy individuals or families who have committed to giving away at least half of their money to charity.
The pledge, started in 2010 by Buffett and fellow philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates, aims at billionaires and near-billionaires. Besides their pledges of support for nonprofits, signers are invited to occasional get-togethers to compare notes about charitable giving.
One of the new signers is Canadian native Charles R. Bronfman, the former chairman of Seagram Co., who is worth $2?billion. He wrote for the pledge's website that he began raising money for the United Jewish Appeal when he was 17, collecting 50 cents each from 20 of his friends in a poor Jewish area of Montreal.
?While I knew I could easily pay the 10 dollars myself and claim it came from them, I relished meeting those who were in lesser circumstances and yet still wanted to participate in helping others,? he wrote.
His foundation already has given away $325 million, focusing on education for young Canadians and improving the quality of life in Montreal, New York and Israel. The foundation will close in 2016, he said, although his children have their own foundations and he plans to continue giving on his own.
Other new signers and their companies or products: Manoj Bhargava. 5-hour Energy; Dan and Jennifer Gilbert, Quicken; Reed Hastings and Patty Quillin, Netflix; Peter B. Lewis, Progressive Insurance; Gordon and Betty Moore, Intel; Jonathan M. Nelson, Providence Equity; Jorge M. and Darlene Perez, the Related Group; Claire and Leonard Tow, New Century Holdings; Albert Lee Ueltschi, FlightSafety International; and Dr. Romesh and Kathleen Wadhwani, Symphony Technology Group.
Ueltschi, whose company is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, wrote: ?I have been lucky enough to live in the best country in the world. If I didn't have ten bucks in the bank, I would still feel this way.?
Enamored with flying as a youth, he started a hamburger stand called ?Kitty Hawk? to pay for flying lessons and was an airline pilot before starting his flight training business.
?I have never seen a hearse pulling a U-Haul trailer,? he wrote. ?You can't take it with you.?
Class B shares
As Berkshire's stock price continues to advance, Zacks Investment Research upgraded its recommendation and estimated that the company's Class B shares could reach $107 each within six months. The price closed last week at $89.54, its highest closing price since $93 on Oct. 3, 2008.
Zacks' report praised Berkshire's operating divisions and business model but said uncertainty over the successor to Buffett as chairman and CEO is ?the biggest matter of concern for the shareholders.?
Although Buffett has said his successor is well-qualified and ready, ?there is an air of uncertainty about the performance of the company under the new CEO,? the stock research company said. ?In our view, it would be a very difficult job for any new management to be able to make the company perform like it did under Buffett and (Berkshire Vice Chairman Charlie) Munger.?
Potential buyer
Berkshire may be a potential buyer of the U.S. life insurance division of Italian insurance company Assicurazioni Generali SpA, according to SNL Insurance Daily, quoting a report by the Italian publication Il Sole 24 Ore.
The industry newsletter said other possible buyers are Swiss Reinsurance Co. Ltd., Munich Re Group, Hannover Re Group and ACE Ltd., with a price between $1 billion and $1.3 billion.
Generali also is selling its Swiss division, Banca della Svizzera Italiana.
World-Herald staff writer Paul Goodsell contributed to this report.
The Omaha World-Herald Co. is owned by Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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New York (CNN) ? A 25-year-old man was charged with trespassing for jumping out of a monorail car into the Bronx Zoo?s tiger den because he wanted ?to be one? with the animal, police said Saturday.
David Villalobos, who is hospitalized in stable condition, said ?his leap was definitely not a suicide attempt, but a desire to be one with the tiger,? according to Paul Browne, the NYPD?s chief spokesman.
Villalobos was riding on the zoo?s Wild Asia monorail around 3 p.m. Friday when he jumped out of the rail car, ?clearing the exhibit?s perimeter fence? and landing in the den, according to Bronx Zoo Director Jim Breheny.
Villalobos suffered a broken right shoulder, broken rib, collapsed lung, broken ankle, broken pelvis and puncture wounds, according to police spokesman Brian Sessa. He later claimed to have pet one of the tigers before it backed off, Sessa added.
The spokesman said Villalobos was charged with trespassing and criminal trespassing. An arraignment has not yet been set.
Zoo officials said rescuers used a fire extinguisher to separate the man and the animal. Heeding instructions, Villalobos rolled ?under a hot wire to safety,? and the tiger backed off, Breheny said.
The zoo uses so-called hot wires ? or electrically charged cables ? as training tools to keep animals away from such areas as plant beds. If the animal comes into contact with the wire, it feels a small electric shock.
Villalobos? decision to follow instructions and roll under the wire ?probably saved his life,? Breheny told reporters Friday.
He was ?conscious and talking? as he was taken by ambulance to Jacobi Medical Center in Bronx, New York.
?I think it?s safe to say that if the tiger really wanted to do harm to this individual he certainly had the time to do it,? Breheny said. ?This is just an extraordinary occurrence that happened because ? somebody was deliberately trying to endanger themselves.?
The exhibit is called Tiger Mountain and houses Siberian tigers as well as Malayan tigers, according to the Bronx Zoo?s website.
The Bronx Zoo is the city?s flagship park run by the Wildlife Conservation Society.
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Weekly Tax Relief News Round Up
Happy Friday! It?s time for a review of this week?s mixed bag of tax relief topics:
Currently Not-Collectable Status ? Status 53
A new video from the Tax Man series explains how Currently Not-Collectable Status works for taxpayers having trouble with tax debt repayment because their current expenses are higher than their income. Currently Not-Collectable Status gives these folks time (sometimes up to two years) whereby they are not obligated to make payments to the IRS. However, it?s not a final resolution. Often an IRS Installment Agreement is a better option to pay off back taxes over time and sometimes the Offer in Compromise program works best.? If you need tax debt relief, you are encouraged to find a reputable certified tax resolution firm who carefully examines all the case details making sure the final resolution has your best interests in mind.
Tax Evasion
Every week there are stories about tax evaders ? this one was no exception.
- Two Wisconsin Business Owners: Lisa Bartz Vanden Elzen, 46, of DePere, Wisconsin and Russell L. Thill, 71, of Berlin, Wisconsin both pleaded guilty to charges of felony payroll tax evasion.
- Bartz Vanden Elzen failed to pay $193,000 in payroll taxes and $81,000 of the employer-matched share. She faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
- Thill was charged with failing to pay more than $256,000 in payroll taxes and the $128,000 in employer matched share. He also faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
- A New Mexico Couple was found guilty this week of federal tax evasion charges. Joseph C. Kupfer, 49, and Elizabeth D. Kupfer, 50, were charged with failing to report roughly $768,333 in taxable income for 2004 through 2006 tax years thus evading the payment of $286,175 in federal taxes. In a bold attempt to conceal this income, the couple gave their tax preparer incomplete information and signed both false and fraudulent tax returns, which were then submitted to the IRS.
Celebrities facing tax issues did not escape the news. This week?s spotlight is on pop singer, Prince.
- According to a Business Week titled ?Prince Failed to Comply With IRS Summons Over Taxes, U.S. Says? the performer ignored an IRS summons sent on behalf of French taxing authorities who are trying to determine his tax liability for 2009 and 2010 the years he performed there. This story is significant in that it indicates just how far worldwide taxing authorities will go, and the help they receive from others (the IRS) to collect taxes due.
From Twitter
Tax Shelter and Identity Theft Schemes Thwarted
- Both @AccountingToday and @WashingtonPost reported this week that Chicago attorney, Donna Guerin who helped clients avoid taxes through illegal tax shelters, plead guilty to her involvement in the tax shelter scheme.
- Both @Reuters and @sfgate reported that 14 people have been arrested in a long-running U.S. identity theft ring that filed thousands of fraudulent federal income tax returns and claimed $65 million in illegal refunds.
IRS policy news
- From @foxnews article, the IRS has stated that its agents will not be involved in tax audits for Affordable Care Act.
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Washington Post: Athletics turn back Orioles, 3-2
OAKLAND ? It had been 20 years since the Baltimore Orioles and Oakland A?s had played each other in September with both clubs boasting winning records.
These versions of the A?s and Orioles may not be experienced in playing meaningful September games, but they did their part on Friday night, trading blows until the A?s eventually walked away with a 3-2 victory before an announced crowd of 35,067.
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Our Foster/Adoption Financial Story: Rita's Family
This post is part of our new guest blogger series, "Our Foster Adoption Financial Story." As new posts are added to this series you will be able to find links to them at the bottom of this post.
This is also putting a huge strain on our marriage... we have been married for 17 years this summer but 14 of those years were child-free.? Suddenly we had a 16 month old child who is pretty much feral and needs me to be with him 24/7 so he can get the help kids with reactive attachment disorder (RAD) so badly need in attaching to a caregiver so they can function in life! Seriously, this kid never slept through the night or alone until about 4 months ago (at the age of four).? Even now, we are up/down with him or need to crawl in bed with him most nights.? I tried to do so much of it on my own that I got burnt out and any chance that my husband could get a second job went out the window because I needed a break!? It is very, very difficult to be alone all day with a child who has PTSD, attachment issues and developmental delays.? It can be even harder to go out in public!? For a long time the grocery store had to be a planned event or I would go in the middle of the night when my husband came home.? There were too many people and too many noises and things to look at for our son and he would freak out.
RITA'S STORY
We became foster parents in September 2009.? At the time I was a nanny and I was able to bring our foster son (16 months at the time) with me to work.? However, he had a lot of issues as foster kids tend to.? In particular, he had post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and an attachment disorder and many developmental delays.? By the end of that spring, I was asked not to bring our son to work anymore.
We felt that our son would not do well in day care since it was important to build attachment with him, so I chose to stay home with him.? It was actually the best decision for him and once we began staying home and cut back on his plethora of visitations and appointments and let him "just be a kid," much of his aggression was gone.? I left work and became a "therapist/doctor mom" trying to help my child heal.
However, living on one income in the pricy D.C. area is not easy.? We cut back on everything we could and did what we could but we still are facing foreclosure.? Our only hope right now is to find a job in a different part of the country where housing is cheaper or move into the basement of my parents home.
Regrets? No. To help our son, I would stay home all over again for him.? He needed me.? We are now thinking he may need to be homeschooled, too.? Currently we have a special ed preschool that is funded by MA that we are hoping will help him (he is still socially/emotionally delayed).? That gives me 3 hours a day to so something to make money... but what can I do?? I've also thought of doing afterschool baby sitting, but we're not sure if our son can handle that either.? It's a tricky situation due to his needs.
My husband and I suffered infertility and 3 failed IVF's and chose to foster-to-adopt since we thought we could help more kids this way... Ironically, our son is the only one we have fostered so far.? I was a teacher for almost 10 years prior to that and have a Master's degree in education. You would think I could find SOME kind of job, but it's tricky with a child who is special needs and requires me to be there 24/7, and it's not like we can afford a baby sitter anyway.
This is also putting a huge strain on our marriage... we have been married for 17 years this summer but 14 of those years were child-free.? Suddenly we had a 16 month old child who is pretty much feral and needs me to be with him 24/7 so he can get the help kids with reactive attachment disorder (RAD) so badly need in attaching to a caregiver so they can function in life! Seriously, this kid never slept through the night or alone until about 4 months ago (at the age of four).? Even now, we are up/down with him or need to crawl in bed with him most nights.? I tried to do so much of it on my own that I got burnt out and any chance that my husband could get a second job went out the window because I needed a break!? It is very, very difficult to be alone all day with a child who has PTSD, attachment issues and developmental delays.? It can be even harder to go out in public!? For a long time the grocery store had to be a planned event or I would go in the middle of the night when my husband came home.? There were too many people and too many noises and things to look at for our son and he would freak out.
Before our son, before fostering, we were just average Joes who went to the beach every summer and had cook outs on the deck.? I worked, my husband worked.? We had friends and family and belonged to a church (my son can't handle church either).? When you get kicked out of Sunday School so many times, and preschool as well... you know you have to stay home with your child.
Our son is now four and things are a bit better, although we still have to follow a very structured schedule or he's thrown for a loop and the behaviors come out.? However, the financial damage is done.? Will it ruin? us? No.? But it sure did set us back a few pegs, and we don't feel like we can share our financial situation with friends and family.? All that said, for us it was well worth the financial setbacks in order to see our son's progress and know in our hearts we did what was best for him, even if that meant to sacrifice a few things.? He deserved it!
Bio: Rita lives in the Washington, DC, area with her husband and 4 year old son who was adopted through foster care. Her husband works at a radio station. Rita has a Master's degree in education but is currently a stay-at-home mom to her special needs son.
Source: http://fosteringthrifty.blogspot.com/2012/09/our-fosteradoption-financial-story.html
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Friday, September 14, 2012
WI: Wisconsin Reporter Special Investigation: Is 4K making the ...
By Kirsten Adshead ?|?Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON ??Wisconsin?taxpayers are footing a $200 million-plus annual bill for a program that has little oversight, indeterminate goals and inconclusive results.
IS IT WORTH IT: Wisconsin?s 4K program cost taxpayers more than $200 million, but is it making the grade?
And the program itself ??kindergarten for 4-year-olds ??has grown so rapidly during the past several years that now about 90 percent of school districts offer a 4K program, and some that aren?t are in the process of implementing it.
?I think my main sense is that it?s a big enough program and it?s expanded significantly in the last few years, and the research shows that high-quality early learning can have strong, positive impacts,? said Dave Edie, early education policy analyst at the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families. ?But we just don?t know whether that?s happening in Wisconsin or not. We just don?t have enough data.?
The Council, is a private, nonpartisan nonprofit that focuses on children- and family-related issues. The group supports 4K but concluded in a 2010 report, primarily written by Edie, that a systemic study of the program is needed.
?Wisconsin has had rapid growth of 4K in the last few years, with enrollment doubling since the 2002-03 school year,? the report noted. ?It is an appropriate time for an independent evaluation of 4K, both school-based and community approaches. An evaluation could look at the quality and effectiveness of 4K programs, assess the impact of community approaches, and identify 4K strengths and weaknesses that districts can learn from.?
The council and 4K?s numerous supporters are waiting.
Wisconsin Reporter isn?t.
Today, we take a detailed look at the explosion of 4K programs in Wisconsin, assessing their effectiveness and cost to taxpayers and consumers. What Wisconsin Reporter has learned is there are many unknowns in an initiative that is costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, and the state?s public education agency isn?t answering questions about how students are faring.
4K boom
Programs to educate 4-year-olds in Wisconsin are as old as the state itself. But there was a steep drop-off in outside-of-home preschool participation around the 1920s, and numbers didn?t surge again until the 1970s and 1980s, according to the state Department of Public Instruction and the WCCF report.
Lawmakers reinstated 4K funding in 1984 and adjusted it in 1991.
Since 1996, there has been a rapid-fire expansion:
- 72 school districts had a 4K program in 1996.
- ?Last school year, 368 of the 414 districts offering primary education ??88 percent ??had 4K programs
- DPI expects six or seven school districts to add 4K this year, meaning roughly 90 percent of school districts now offer a 4K program
- Total fall enrollment pre-kindergarten through 12th?grade has been essentially stagnate since 1995-96, but pre-K enrollment is an ever-growing part of that equation. Pre-K enrollment accounted for 2.1 percent of the total in ?95-?96, but 6.3 percent of total enrollment last year.
Wisconsin 4k is, by design, a disparate system.
School districts with 4K programs can hold the classes in their own school buildings or partner with local child-care centers, which may provide their own teachers.
DPI doesn?t know how much 4K costs ??any more than it knows how much kindergarten or first grade, etc., costs, department spokesman Patrick Gasper said in an email.
?Because of the nature of the funding formula, it is impossible to determine what the ?costs? are for 4K,? he said. ?The state doesn?t fund programs such as 4K with its state general aid, but funds based on a complicated formula, of which student enrollment is but one factor.?
The nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau?s best guesstimate is that, last school year, the cost to taxpayers was $240.3 million for 4K ??$148.3 million from the state and the rest from local property taxes.
But, LFB fiscal analyst Russ Kava noted, ?These figures do not include the categorical aid appropriation for grants to districts that implement a new 4K program, or state funding provided to schools in the Milwaukee and Racine parental choice and charter school programs as a result of those schools including 4K pupils in their enrollment counts.?
Gasper said he couldn?t point to ?any single factor? that would explain the rapid expansion of 4K.
Grading 4K
There is plenty of evidence to suggest that involvement in early-childhood education programs helps kids academically later on.
But is taxpayer-funded 4K better than the child-care programs many children were attending anyway, at their parents? expense?
Are Wisconsin schools improving relative to other states? Are test scores up?
Experts say that?s not necessarily the point of 4K.
?There are more kids coming to school without some of the basic skills that we expect to see ?color recognition, letter recognition,? said Lois Alt, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction for the D.C. Everest School District in north central Wisconsin. D.C. Everest is adding a 4K program for the 2013-14 school year.
Alt said the hope is that parents will take advantage of having the 4K program, which is free to them and covers 2.5 hours a day, and the knowledge gap among kindergartners will close.
?The biggest thing is that we will have assurance of continuity of programming,? she said. ?We will know what every student is getting.?
The state requires that 4K teachers have kindergarten or pre-kindergarten license, and 4K programs must include at least 437 hours of instruction each year. There are no student-teacher ratio requirements.
Similarly, although the state gives guidelines for curriculum, curricula is a strictly local issue.
The Madison Metropolitan School District, for example, chose not to require its partner day-care school to use a particular curriculum.
A subcommittee ?has defined that the 4K curricula must be developmentally appropriate, align with the Wisconsin Model Early Learning Standards (WMELS) and Accreditation criteria, be play-based, inclusive, research based, inclusive of culture, race, social class, gender, languages and needs, and designed to promote partnerships with families,? according to the school district.
However, ?Individual centers will be able to design their own unique programming to meet these requirements.?
Do 4K students fare better than others who had access to child care, day care and other programs for 4-year-olds?
Wisconsin Reporter repeatedly requested an interview with a 4K expert from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, but DPI officials either ignored or declined those requests.
Wisconsin Reporter, however, compared the third-grade standardized test results from November 2010 and November 2011 from school districts that added 4K in the 2007-08 school year.
The students who took the exam in 2010 would have been the last class in those districts to not have 4K, while the students who took the exam last November would have been the first, third-grade students in those districts to have attended 4K.
Wisconsin begins standardized testing students in third grade. Results are divided into four categories ??minimal, basic, proficient and advanced.
School districts aim for ?proficient? or better.
According to Wisconsin Reporter?s analysis, from 2010-11 to the 2011-12 school year:
- 19 of the 26 school districts had more students test in the ?minimal? category in 2011 than in 2010
- 16 had more students in the basic category from year to year
- 17 had more students scored proficient
- Nine had more students score advanced
?I think ? that a good child care preschool program that?s not connected to the school district can do a lot of good things,? Edie, the? early education policy analyst said. ?I think what a 4K program can do is make it available to families who can?t afford those other settings.?
So, who?s 4K helping?
Test scores, of course, are not the only measurement of a child?s, school?s or program?s success.
Kurt Munchoff of Green Bay enrolled his children in 4K in part because he didn?t start having kids until his 40s, so his children missed some of the social benefits of being surrounded by families with kids their own age. Munchoff?s son, Isaac, was in 4K last year.
?I definitely saw little bit different behaviors at the park ??he was more willing to run off and play with other kids rather than just play on his own,? Munchoff said.?I think it gave us a clearer picture of what was expected once he arrived at kindergarten, and then I think just structured time, being able to sit down and get some work done (helped prepare him for this year),? he said.
Pat Marcus oversees the SPARK Early Literacy Program, part of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee, which helps kids from kindergarten through third grade who are behind in literacy catch up with their peers.
Even if kids can catch up by the third-grade standardized test, that doesn?t mean there?s no effect from the years they spent in school believing they are not as smart as the other students, Marcus said.
?To be a failure when you?re 6 or 7 years old is just heart-breaking,? she said.
4K windfall
Less altruistically, it appears cash-strapped school districts may benefit financially from starting up a 4K program ??at taxpayers? expense.
Last May, the Madison Metropolitan School Board approved a preliminary $376.2 million 2012-13 budget, with the assumption that state aid would drop by about $800,000 in the next fiscal year.
To fill the potential gap, the board approved a hefty property tax hike of nearly 5 percent, and the sharply criticized Republicans, including Gov. Scott Walker, for making deep cuts to state aid.
The Department of Public Instruction, however, since has estimated that Madison public school district will receive nearly $12 million in additional state aid in the next school year ??apparently due to Madison?s robust increase in its 4-year-old kindergarten program, which enrolled 1,800 students.
And teaming with the public school district to provide a 4K program doesn?t necessarily hurt private day-care centers either.
Non-school district schools that house 4K programs under the district?s guidance aren?t allowed to charge tuition for the 4K program.
But they can charge families whose children stay there all day the same tuition? now for a five- or six-hour day??that they were charging for an eight- or nine-hour day before starting a 4K program.
?We actually increased the salary of the teacher who?s working in that program for those hours,? said Diane Ladwig, director of the Gundersen Lutheran child care program in La Crosse, which did not drop tuition when 4K was added. ?We also have additional prep time for their curriculum and their assessment and all that, that?s counted in that. Plus, we used the money for maintenance and equipment, so the money is well-used.?
Questions, more questions
Is a 4K program that casts a wide net the best way to help the families who can?t find or afford preschool on their own?
Would it make more sense to fund a smaller program targeted at those students who wouldn?t otherwise get an early childhood education?
As Wisconsin approaches a universal 4K program, can officials say, for certain, that 4K is a success?
Are those questions being asked?
DPI isn?t saying.
More than two years after the WCCF suggested that, given the expansion of 4K statewide and the lack of consistency in its implementation, it was time for a full-scale study of the program, Wisconsin is still waiting.
?What I would like to see is a thorough evaluation of programs of 4-year-old kindergarten in Wisconsin to see what?s working,? Edie said.
Implementation of 4K is so localized, it?s hard to get a sense of how well the program, as a whole is functioning, he said.
?The more children at risk you have, the more difficult it is to have a high-quality 4K program,? he said.
Edie said WCCF hasn?t pushed hard for a statewide study yet but is going to put more pressure on the state in the next year or two.
?I don?t hear very much from communities that are dissatisfied (with 4K),? he said. ?But I don?t know.?
Contact Kirsten Adshead at kadshead@wisconsinreporter.com
Source: http://watchdog.org/56360/wi-wisconsin-reporter-special-investigation-is-4k-making-the-grade/
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Philip Hammond: British troops could withdraw from Afghanistan before 2014
Mr Hammond also said Britain must accept that peace would only be achieved through ?Northern Ireland-style? talks with the moderate element of the insurgency.
For the first time, he revealed the Army was taking a new approach to the timescale of the withdrawal as he visited British troops in Camp Bastion, Helmand.
"I think there is a bit of a rethinking going on about how many troops we do actually need,? he said, speaking in an interview with The Guardian.
?There may be some scope for a little bit more flexibility on the way we draw down, and that is something commanders on the ground are looking at very actively."
Mr Hammond did not indicate a revised timetable but said Britain?s departure from Afghanistan could be quickened rather than waiting until 2014. He suggested the change in thinking had occurred in the last six months.
"I think that the message I am getting clearly from the military is that it might be possible to draw down further troops in 2013," he said.
"Whereas six months ago the message coming from them was that we really need to hold on to everything we have got for as long as we possibly can. I think they are seeing potentially more flexibility in the situation.
"Talking to senior commanders you get a clear sense that their view of force levels is evolving in light of their experiences."
Under current plans, the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) will take over from the middle of next year with all International Security and Assistance Force (Isaf) withdrawing by 2014.
Mr Hammond?s comments were made after the commander in charge of Helmand province told The Daily Telegraph there was no point in having soldiers ?sitting around? if there was nothing to do before the end of 2014.
Last month, Brig Doug Chalmers said it was pointless to risk the lives of soldiers with nothing to achieve.
"We are not going to be here if we don't need to be here," Brig Chalmers said.
?It's an increasing handover of responsibility, getting us out of the conversation.?
The Defence Secretary said greater democracy was am ambition for Afghanistan but said it was not the final measure of success.
"The ultimate measure of success must be the extent to which we can leave Afghanistan in a state that will continue to deny its territory to international terrorists," he said.
"Even if we had achieved nothing lasting, every year that goes by keeping the bombers at bay, keeping them off our streets, is a significant achievement in itself. But we have clearly built the basics of a future that will deny the space of Afghanistan to those who would seek to harm us."
Last night, a Ministry of Defence spokesman said there had been no formal change of timetable but said the speed of the withdrawal was ?variable?.
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
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NASA's retired shuttle Endeavour heads west Monday
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ? The baby of NASA's space shuttle fleet is about to leave home ? for good.
At sunrise Monday, Endeavour will depart Kennedy Space Center for a museum in California, with a two-day stopover in Houston, home to Mission Control and the astronauts who flew aboard the replacement for the lost shuttle Challenger.
Endeavour is the second of NASA's three retired shuttles to head to a museum. The youngest shuttle will make the four-day trip to Los Angeles atop a modified jumbo jet, bound for the California Science Center. Discovery landed at the Smithsonian Institution's display hangar in Virginia last spring. Atlantis will remain at Kennedy.
After taking off from the former shuttle landing strip Monday morning, Endeavour and its carrier jet will fly low over Kennedy and the beaches of Cape Canaveral, then head west toward NASA points along the Gulf of Mexico. The pair will swoop over Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, where the shuttle booster rockets were made.
Next stop: Ellington Field near NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Endeavour will remain at Ellington until Wednesday morning so space center employees can see the shuttle up close. Houston had bid for a shuttle; the loss still nags many there. NASA chose New York City as the winner for the shuttle prototype Enterprise, which was relinquished by the Smithsonian to make room for Discovery.
NASA's two other shuttles during the 30-year program, Challenger and Columbia, were destroyed during flight, with 14 astronauts altogether killed.
Endeavour was built to replace Challenger and made its flying debut in 1992, six years after the launch accident. It performed the next-to-last shuttle mission in May and June 2011.
During its 25 missions, Endeavour logged 299 days in space and circled Earth 4,671 times. Total off-the-planet mileage: 122.8 million miles.
After leaving Houston on Wednesday, Endeavour will stop for fuel at Biggs Army Airfield in El Paso, Texas, and then perform a low flyover of the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, which served for decades as an emergency shuttle landing site. Then it will head to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California, another old shuttle touchdown venue.
On Thursday, Endeavour will fly to Northern California, home to Ames Research Center in Mountain View. NASA plans low-level flights over San Francisco, Sacramento and other major cities before heading to Los Angeles and a late-morning arrival at Los Angeles International Airport.
NASA was mum Thursday regarding the exact times of all these flyovers for security reasons. Officials warned that the weather needed to cooperate to allow for such a full and busy schedule.
The shuttle will make its final 12-mile journey from the airport to the California Science Center, via city streets, on Oct. 12-13. It will go on public display beginning Oct. 30.
Atlantis' road trip ? from a Kennedy Space Center hangar to the visitor complex ? is scheduled for Nov. 2.
NASA retired the shuttle fleet last year under White House direction in order to focus more time and money on travel beyond Earth's orbit, first an asteroid and then Mars in the coming decades.
Private companies, meanwhile, are trying to pick up where NASA left off regarding the International Space Station. Until those businesses can provide spaceships for flying people, U.S. astronauts will need to rely on Russian rockets to get to the orbiting lab.
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Online:
NASA: http://www.nasa.gov
California Science Center: http://www.californiasciencecenter.org/
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nasas-retired-shuttle-endeavour-heads-west-monday-185956866.html
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Nation says goodbye to moonwalker Neil Armstrong
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The nation bid farewell Thursday to Neil Armstrong, the first man to take a giant leap on to the moon.
The powerful of Washington, the pioneers of space, and the everyday public crowded into the Washington National Cathedral for a public interfaith memorial for the very private astronaut.
Armstrong, who died last month in Ohio at age 82, walked on the moon in July 1969.
"He's now slipped the bonds of Earth once again, but what a legacy he left," former Treasury Secretary John Snow told the gathering.
Apollo 11 crewmates Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins and Mercury astronaut John Glenn and about two dozen members of Congress were among the estimated 1,500 people in the cavernous cathedral. A moon rock that the Apollo 11 astronauts gave the church in 1974 is embedded in one of its stained glass windows.
"You have now shown once again the pathway to the stars," Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon said in a tribute to Armstrong. "As you soar through the heavens beyond even where eagles dare to go, you can now finally put out your hand and touch the face of God."
Cernan was followed by a slow and solemn version of the song "Fly Me to the Moon" by singer Diana Krall. The service also included excerpts from a speech 50 years ago by John F. Kennedy in which he said America chose to send men to the moon not because it was easy, but because it was hard.
NASA administrator Charles Bolden, a former astronaut, said Armstrong's humility and courage "lifted him above the stars." Bolden read a letter from President Barack Obama saying, "the imprint he left on the surface of the moon is matched only by the extraordinary mark he left on ordinary Americans."
Armstrong commanded the historic landing of the Apollo 11 spacecraft on the moon July 20, 1969. His first words after stepping onto the moon are etched in history books: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong insisted later that he had said "a'' before man, but said he, too, couldn't hear it in the recorded version.
Armstrong and Aldrin spent nearly three hours walking on the lunar surface and left behind a plaque that read: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind."
In all, 12 American astronauts walked on the moon before the last moon mission in 1972.
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Online:
NASA: http://www.nasa.gov
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nation-says-goodbye-moonwalker-neil-armstrong-141401098.html
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
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