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WIA FUNDING WILL BE CUT—WILL YOU HELP US?

***WIA FUNDING will be cut-we need your help!!***
The skinny on the funding-Underemployed and Unemployed constituents that are receiving TANF, Food stamps, Unemployed benefits, are eligible to go to school and receive the funding. It pays for their training. Please click the links and ask to NOT CUT the funding. You need to submit to both links!
WIA info link.
Thank you,
On-Site Computer Training Staff

43% of Black Males Graduate High School in the State of Georgia…Only 34% of Black Males Graduate in the City of Atlanta! You think that’s bad…Check out NY City!


Welcome to The Schott Foundation for Public Education’s web-based 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males. This website is a data portal that provides parents, educators, media, policymakers, elected officials—and anyone who cares about education and equity—direct access to important, alarming data on the devastating reality of education for Black males across all 50 states.

Yes We Can: The 2010 Schott 50 State Report on Black Males in Public Education reveals that the overall 2007/8 graduation rate for Black males in the U.S. was only 47 percent. Half of the states have graduation rates for Black male students below the national average. The report highlights concerns that New York’s graduation rate for its Regents diploma is only 25 percent for Black male students. New York City, the district with the nation’s highest enrollment of Black students, only graduates 28 percent of its Black male students with Regents diplomas on time. Overall, each year over 100,000 Black male students in New York City alone do not graduate from high school with their entering cohort. These statistics—and the other alarming data in this fourth biennial report— point to a national education and economic crisis.

Without targeted investments to provide the core, research-proven resources to help Black male students succeed in public education, they are being set up to fail.

The report highlights the success of New Jersey’s Abbott plan, which demonstrates that when equitable resources are available to all students, systemic change at the state level can yield significant results. New Jersey is now the only state with a significant Black population with a greater than 65 percent high school graduation rate for Black male students.

By providing the public with this data, we hope to continue to spark action from advocacy and philanthropic communities to hold policymakers and school districts accountable for facilitating changes needed to provide Black male students the opportunity to learn and succeed.

PLEASE CHECK OUT THE FULL REPORT AT: http://www.blackboysreport.org/
I bet you never new how bad it really is in some states.

Should Undocumented people have access to Georgia’s Colleges/Univ. even if willing to pay out of state tuition?

(CNN) — Georgia’s public colleges have adopted new policies that officials say will prevent illegal immigrants from attending five high-demand schools and from being admitted ahead of legally and academically qualified residents at the rest of the state’s public institutions of higher learning.
The State Board of Regents, which oversees public colleges in Georgia, also approved legal penalties for providing incorrect information on tuition-related forms.
The regents, who have been under public pressure about the admission of illegal immigrants, say the issue not been a significant problem.
Only 501 of 310,000 students within the university system are undocumented and they already pay out-of-state tuition, said regents spokesman John Millsaps.
But the new tuition policy, which takes effect in fall 2011, enables Georgia to “strengthen the ability of institutions to properly classify students for tuition purposes,” the board said in a statement after the vote Wednesday.
“We are an educational agency in the business of preparing individuals for careers requiring knowledge and skills,” said regent James Jolly. “We are not in the immigration business, nor are we equipped to serve as the immigration authorities.”
The regents want to ensure that undocumented students — no matter how academically qualified they may be — don’t move ahead of academically and legally qualified applicants at schools that for the past two academic years had to reject qualified applicants because of a lack of space or other reasons.
Not all of the 510 undocumented students are illegal immigrants, the regents say. Some may have lost their legal status or cannot affirm citizenship. Regents ordered schools to verify a legal presence in the United States for those seeking in-state tuition.
Under the new policy, illegal immigrants will not be able to attend the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia Tech in Atlanta, the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Georgia State University in Atlanta and Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, all of which have turned away students.
That list of banned schools may change each year, depending on circumstances.
Those five schools had only 27 undocumented students enrolled this fall, officials said.
The system’s other 30 colleges and universities will be able to admit undocumented students if they pay out-of-state tuition, which more than covers the cost of educating a student who pays it, and if they are not accepted ahead of qualified students, according to Millsaps.
The space crunch at the five named schools is not usually present at the other 30, which accommodate all students who meet academic standards.
“Not enough Georgians graduate from high school and pursue post-secondary education,” Millsaps said. “We need more Georgians to pursue higher education.”
The American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia decried the vote and said undocumented college students are “by and large talented high achievers who arrived in the U.S. as children because of the choices their parents made. They grew up in this country and persevered against the odds” to graduate from high school.
The ACLU also argues federal databases used for some legal status verification are error-filled.
Controversy over admissions erupted after a student at Kennesaw State University in the Atlanta suburb of Kennesaw was found to be in the United States illegally. She was being charged in-state tuition.
The issue has come up in the gubernatorial race this fall in Georgia. Democrat Roy Barnes and Repulican Nathan Deal both oppose allowing illegal immigrants to attend public colleges in the state.
South Carolina does not allowed undocumented students in public colleges.
(CNN’s Phil Gast contributed to this report).

2010; Are We Still There?

Woman Who Blamed Black Woman For Acid Attack Admits It Was A Hoax

VANCOUVER, Wash. – When the initial shock faded, police in this suburb of Portland, Ore., began to question some details in Bethany Storro’s account of the day her face was irreparably burned by acid.

Why, they asked, did the burn patterns of the acid not reflect Storro’s account of a stranger tossing it in her face? Why was she wearing sunglasses — something she said she never did — just after 7 p.m. on Aug. 30?

And why did no one see the alleged assailant?

Those questions culminated in a search warrant served at Storro’s house on Thursday, when she admitted that she fabricated the story of a stranger’s attack. Instead, she said, she did it to herself.

The attack drew worldwide sympathy. Facebook groups were formed to draw attention to her plight. A fundraiser was planned in Vancouver, and donation sites were established at branches of two local banks.

So it was in a soft-spoken voice that Vancouver police chief Clifford Cook told reporters on Thursday that Storro invented the story.

“During the course of the investigation, several discrepancies began to emerge regarding the alleged attack,” Cook said. “During the interview, Ms. Storro admitted the injuries were self-inflicted.”

Cook said he did not know a motive for Storro’s actions, but added she is “very remorseful.” He said Storro was still being interviewed by detectives during a press conference on Thursday.

Police had been seeking a black woman with a ponytail after Storro described the alleged attack. She had said the woman asked her, “Hey, pretty girl, want something to drink?” then threw acid in her face.

After the incident, Storro made several media appearances, but a planned interview on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” was canceled. She said she had received correspondence from people around the world concerned for her well being.

She recounted details of the alleged attack at a news conference, with her head wrapped in bandages and her parents by her side. She said she wanted to know why the unnamed assailant had attacked her.

Funds were set up for Storro at Umpquah and Riverview Community banks. Messages to the banks were not immediately returned Thursday.

Vancouver police Commander Marla Schuman said detectives were working on a way to return any money donated to Storro.

Cook said any decision to charge Storro with a crime would be left to the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. Clark County Senior Deputy Prosecutor John Fairgrieve did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press seeking comment Thursday.

“She is extremely upset,” Schuman said. “In many ways, this got bigger than she expected.”

Schuman was asked whether Storro will face a charge of filing a false police report, to which she responded: “At this point, yes, that would certainly fit.”

A burn surgeon who operated on Storro said the substance thrown on her face was an acid as strong as hydrochloric or sulfuric acid.

Police said Thursday that they haven’t yet identified the substance Storro used, nor did they find any evidence of acid in her home or car.

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Nail Salon; Blessing from God? Or Everyday Discrimination?

Michelle Fonville’s day at the spa may have left her with polished nails and neatly shaped eyebrows, but it also left her with the bitter taste of discrimination.

Her day took a sour turn after she saw an extra $5 charge on her bill.

Fonville says, “[The manager] told me she charged me $5 more because I was overweight.”

According to WSB-TV in Atlanta:

Salon manager Kim Tran told Philips [WSB-TV reporter] that the surcharge was due to costly repairs of broken chairs by overweight customers. She said the chairs have a weight capacity of 200 pounds and cost $2,500 to fix.

Fonville told Tran that charging her extra for her weight was discrimination. Tran did not agree—though she refunded the surcharge—and told Fonville not to come back.

Weight discrimination, according to a 2008 study reported in the International Journal of Obesity, is as common as racial discrimination, particularly among women.

In another case this year, Cassandra Smith, a female Hooters employee sued the company for weight discrimination.

According to Reuters, Smith’s manager urged her to lose weight. She claimed she was put on a 30-day “weight probation.” She was 5’8″ and 132.5 pounds at the time.