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Economy impacts staffing,
family factors according to
2009 Principals’ Partnership Poll

    Members of The Principals’ Partnership are seeing negative aspects to the current economic downturn that are likely to impact the quality of education provide in public high schools. They also would like to see changes in the accountability requirements of No Child Left Behind.

 

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Partnership Principal
Ferdinand Wipachit Phoenix Military Academy
Chicago, Ill


Listen to Ferdinand!

Transformation is apparent at Phoenix Military Academy

     When Principal Ferdinand Wipachit recalls his six years at Chicago’s Phoenix Military Academy, one word comes to mind—transformation.

    “Ours is truly a transformational school,” he recalls. “We probably ranked 99th out of 100 among schools in Chicago in 2004. Based on results released Spring 2009, Phoenix Military Academy is now among the top 15.”

     While the transformation has been dramatic for the 9 -12 high school with 360 student cadets, it hasn’t been easy. In 2004 the school became Phoenix Military Academy and was one of four “small” neighborhood schools located in the Orr Campus. Historically, the school was plagued with a high level of violence along with a poor academic record. As the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) moved to create a number of military schools, two years later Phoenix was re-designed as one of five military academies in CPS. Students must submit an application, take a test administered by CPS, and interview with Academy faculty to be considered for acceptance.

     “Developing Phoenix into a military school was different than most approaches used to design academies of this nature,” said Wipachit. “Usually, schools are begun one year at a time. Here, we converted the school all at once.”

   

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California Schools magazine Spring 2007

If you ask me: Partnership can help high school principals

by F. James Hoffmann

AWSP Honors The Principals' Partnership

The Principals' Partnership and Union Pacific were honored with a recognition award at the October 26, 2008 meeting of the Association of Washington School Principals.

Robert MacMullen , AWSP Director of High School Programs; Philip R. Brockman, principal at Seattle's Ballard High School and Association Board member ; and Brock Nelson , Director of Public Affairs in Washington and Oregon for Union Pacific

Richard Ramsey and Brock Nelsonat the award ceremony.

 

 

 


 

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The Principals’ Partnership was recognized on May 11, 2009 by the Portland Public Schools (PPS) and the High School Principals Association.

Carole Smith, Portland’s Superintendent spoke on behalf of all the PPS Partnership Principals about Union Pacific’s role an excellent corporate citizen.

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El Paso (Texas) Independent Unified School District Honors Union Pacific and
The Principals’ Partnership

Carla Gasway, principal at Franklin High School; Clifton Taulbert, nationally recognized presenter; Howard Jennings, Partnership Team member; Glady Nienstaedt, Partnership Team member and James Anderson, principal of Andress High School.

 

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Rewarding Excellence in St. Louis Public Schools

Partnership Principals
Barbara Sharp and Thomas Cason recieve the Pettus Foundation’s Award of Excellence

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Abraham Lincoln and
Railroad History!

     You and your students can now gain a glimpse of Abraham Lincoln and his contributions to railroad history through a new link on our Web site,

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provided by Union Pacific.

     Union Pacific is sponsoring an exhibit at the Library of Congress to honor Lincoln during the bicentennial of his birth, and the exhibit will travel to various locations later this year. The exhibit, “With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibit,” celebrates the legacy of the former president who set the Transcontinental Railroad in motion, a major step in uniting the country.

    The Web site has information on what’s in the exhibit and travel sites, Lincoln and the railroad, Lincoln’s legacy and more.

 


 

 

 

 

 


 

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