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Charter school will focus on homeland security
Ohanian comment: The Rodel Foundation seems to have an influential hand in the people running Innovative Schools Development Corporation. Bill Budinge, CEO and founding director of the Rodel Foundations, Budinger serves as a trustee for the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and as a board member for the Progressive Policy Institute.
Anyone who has read "The Honorable" Pierre S. du Pont's nutty op eds in the Wall Street Journal, will wonder what he's doing on the board of advisors to the foundation. Well, he is a former governor of Delaware.
If colleges can offer degrees in Homeland Security, then it follows that there will be high schools to prepare students for a career track in this area.
Prediction: Watch for the kindergarten Homeland Security Prep Package (and test). Coming to your neighborhood school soon.
Think I'm exaggerating? Here's a snippet from a USA Today article, published in 2006:
The Homeland Security Department on Thursday introduced a new emergency-preparedness campaign to teach 8-to-12-year-olds how to prepare for a terrorist attack, natural disaster or other emergency.
"Preparedness is not just a government challenge," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said during a visit to Andrew Jackson Language Academy, an elementary school in Chicago. "We all have to learn how to plan for the unexpected."
by staff
The first high school dedicated to preparing students for the front
lines in the Nation's homeland security has gone from theory to
planning in Wilmington.
The Project Manager for the Delaware Academy for Public Safety and
Security, New Castle Attorney Thomas Little, signed a contract with
Innovative Schools, a professional firm which will coordinate the
mechanics of preparing the school for its eventual opening.
The process to find and fund a site for as many as six-hundred young
men and women in Wilmington's inner city is underway.
Curriculum choices for students, who are to be called Cadets, range
from SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) through prison guard, water
rescue, paramedic, fireman, professional demolition and emergency
response operator, according to a Board statement.
The first Principal of the institution is to be Dr. Fred Fitzgerald.
A retired Captain in the Marine Corps, Fitzgerald teaches English,
speech and debate at New Castle Christian Academy. Fitzgerald is also
a former executive for Coca Cola in Jacksonville, Florida, and a
former Director of Operations for the Port of Wilmington.
On the academic side of the new charter school, parents will agree to
attend a monthly meeting at the campus with faculty for progress conferences.
To meet personal curriculum goals, all physically capable cadets are
to attend a daily after-school exercise program. In addition, two
hours of after-school sports or homeland security training will be
available for cadet volunteers.
— staff
Delaware Business Ledger
2008-04-05
http://www.ledgerdelaware.com/articles/2008/04/05/news/news.24.txt
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