YOUNG NEBRASKA ARTISTS HONORED IN NATIONAL CONTEST
Winners in
the annual art and writing contest sponsored by Scholastic, Inc., included
several Nebraska secondary students. You can view their work by visiting www.scholastic.com/artandwritingawards/gallery/2005/state.htm
and scrolling to the Nebraska section.
They are
among the 1,100 most elite young creators in the country. Here they are:
Benson
High School
Sherman Ford
Age 18, Self-Portrait, Gold Award, Drawing
Teacher: Astra Patterson
Kong Lor
Age 17, Elephant, Silver Award, Drawing
Teacher: Astra Patterson
Bishop
Neumann High School
Ashli
Mongar
Age 14, Five Times the Trouble, Silver Award, Short Story
Teacher: Jill Johnson
Burke High School
Katie
Novotny
Age 16, Silver and Cold, Silver Award, Sculpture
Teacher: DeAnn Hansich
Ft. Calhoun School
Benjamin
Cox
Age 19, Untitled, Silver Award, Drawing
Teacher: David Smith
Lincoln Southeast High School
Jennifer
K. Gustafson
Age 17, The Antique, Gold Award, Short Short Story
Teacher: Kathleen Steinke
Michael Kingery
Age 17, Coup de Gras, Gold Award, Drawing
Teacher: Karen Schanou
Marian High School
Paige
Mariucci
Age 17, Buttons, Silver Award, Drawing
Teacher: Kathy McPherson
Millard West High School
Miles Landaw
Age 18, Stop!, American Visions Award, Painting
Teacher: Julie Lade-Wills
Miles
Landaw
Age 18, Stop!, Silver Award, Painting
Teacher: Julie Lade-Wills
Omaha Central High School
Anna
Vacha
Age 18, The Poppy Annie, Silver Award, Painting
Teacher: Larry Andrews
Walnut Middle School
Jose
Rivas
Age 13, Chino en Peten, Silver Award, Mixed Media
Teacher: Jerome Dubas
Westside High School
Dana
Hamby
Age 17, Jipped, Silver Award, Painting
Teacher: Shawn Blevins
Westside Middle School
Neal Gebhard
Age 14, Self-Portrait "Neal", Gold Award, Drawing
Teacher: Paul Hundtoft
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NEBRASKA IS SITTING ON $12.8 MILLION
IN UNSPENT FEDERAL EDUCATION FUNDS?
Nebraska has received an
increase of 47% in federal Title 1 money since 2001, according to federal
figures. Nebraska education leaders have been complaining that federal
education regulations in No Child Left Behind are coming with insufficient
funds to pay for them. You hear it a lot: "unfunded mandates."
But the state is sitting
on a backlog of $12.8 million in Title 1 funds . . . that haven't been spent,
according to the Congressman in charge of federal education funding.
Title I is the federal
program intended to help disadvantaged children and the schools they attend.
The revelation comes
from Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives'
Committee on Education and the Workforce.
According to government
figures, Nebraska schools received $33.8 million in Title I funding in 2001,
and $49.7 million last fiscal year. The money is available for academic
remediation, teacher quality grants, Reading First, help with assessments,
after-school programs, and impact aid for military dependents.
See the article and
charts: www.house.gov/ed_workforce/issues/108th/education/nclb/nclbfundingreport.pdf
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