Rebuilding New Orleans

Here's some available money. From this mornings New York Times:

The New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Flea Theater and the National Museum
of the American Indian are among 63 arts and civic organizations that are to
benefit from more than $27 million in grants being announced today by state
and city officials.
The federal grants, ranging from $20,000 to $2 million, will be funneled
through the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation with the goal of
reviving cultural activity downtown. The biggest chunk goes to the New
Museum, which is building a new $60 million home on the Bowery.

Lee

Another way that people can help is to go to a local concert of the New
Orleans Jazz Orchestra, partly because last year, Prudential Insurance
via NJPAC made a private donation of $300,000 to save the tour.

Here's their homepage. The concert schedule's buried down a few levels
& on a Flash page...no direct URL available.

http://www.thenojo.com/front.html

Here's what they currently have listed:

March 31, 2006
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Palace

April 1, 2006
Bellingham, WA
Mount Baker Theater

April 2, 2006
Seattle, WA
Benaroya Hall

April 3, 2006
Victoria, BC
Univ Centre Auditorium

April 4, 2006
Vancouver, BC
The Centre

April 7, 2006
La Jolla, CA
Spreckels Theater

April 8, 2006
NOJO
Scottsdale, AZ
Scottsdale Center

April 11, 2006
Tucson, AZ
Centennial Hall



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"Lee Bell" <pleebell2@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Here's some available money. From this mornings New York Times:
>
> The New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Flea Theater and the National
Museum
> of the American Indian are among 63 arts and civic organizations that are
to
> benefit from more than $27 million in grants being announced today by
state
> and city officials.
> The federal grants, ranging from $20,000 to $2 million, will be funneled
> through the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation with the goal of
> reviving cultural activity downtown. The biggest chunk goes to the New
> Museum, which is building a new $60 million home on the Bowery.
>
> Lee

I'm so glad that tax dollars are being used for such a noble purpose. It's
so nice knowing that our kids are educated well enough and our veterans are
provided for enough that we can now start using public [cough] money on far
more important tasks like these.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...8/f1cb3b75.jpg

In rec.scuba, "Chris Guynn" wrote in message
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> I'm so glad that tax dollars are being used for such a noble purpose.
It's
> so nice knowing that our kids are educated well enough and our veterans
are
> provided for enough that we can now start using public [cough] money on
far
> more important tasks like these.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/03....ap/index.html

"Grumman-581" <grumman581@DIE-SPAMMER-SCUM@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> In rec.scuba, "Chris Guynn" wrote in message
> news:FRARf.38549$_S7.28506@newssvr14.news.prodigy. com...
> > I'm so glad that tax dollars are being used for such a noble purpose.
> It's
> > so nice knowing that our kids are educated well enough and our veterans
> are
> > provided for enough that we can now start using public [cough] money on
> far
> > more important tasks like these.
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/03....ap/index.html

They mentioned some variables such as trauma, poor school system, and being
placed in the wrong grade. I have to wonder if part of it was that they
hadn't been taught how to take *our* test like the rest of our kids were.
The teachers these days are required to "teach to the test." If they'd just
teach the material the kids would learn it and do fine.

"Chris Guynn" wrote in message
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> They mentioned some variables such as trauma, poor school system, and
being
> placed in the wrong grade. I have to wonder if part of it was that they
> hadn't been taught how to take *our* test like the rest of our kids were.
> The teachers these days are required to "teach to the test." If they'd
just
> teach the material the kids would learn it and do fine.

I was on a DoD contract over in New Orleans back before Katrina... There
seems to be a mentality among many students in the New Orleans school
district that not only do they not want to learn, but they don't want anyone
else to learn... Blaming it on trauma is just a cop-out... There are good
schools in the New Orleans *area*, but they tend to be in the suburbs,
especially on the other side of Lake Pontchartrain (e.g. St. Tammany Parish
School District)...