The James Logan Courier

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations

The East Bay Community Foundation, which during the past two years has granted the New Haven Unified School District more than $40,000 to support literacy programs, has awarded the District an additional $15,000.

The Foundation’s latest grant will enable New Haven Unified to provide another Summer Institute of training for kindergarten through second-grade teachers in Writers Workshop. A research-based approach to writing instruction, Writers Workshop has met with great success in the District since it was adopted in 2007-08.

UNION CITY - The New Haven Unified School District announced today that the New Haven Community Forum meeting originally scheduled for Thursday evening at Alvarado Middle School has been canceled.

Anyone with comments to share with Superintendent Kari McVeigh regarding a possible parcel tax, or any other subject, is asked to send an e-mail by going to the District website, www.nhusd.k12.ca.us and clicking on “contact us and “e-mail by topic”

By Tom Hamburger And Kathleen Hennessey
Tribune Washington Bureau (MCT)

WASHINGTON — With the campaign in its final week, well-funded conservative groups have shifted their focus from the airwaves to voters' phone lines, front doors and mailboxes — part of a get-out-the-vote effort that could tip the scale in tight races across the country.

But the push to get the nation's conservative voters to the polls is fractured and untested, with some "tea party" activists refusing to cooperate with more mainstream Republicans, in contrast to the unified and well-organized parallel effort by labor and the Democrats, according to key players involved in both sides.