We are looking forward to a great year and invite
all parents to become active in their Home & School
Councils. Visit our website often to keep up to
date on Council and School District events and
activities. While you are here, read our family
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Recent News Philadelphia Home and School Council would
like to applaud Gov. Ed Rendell, on his nomination
of Prof. Heidi A. Ramirez, to serve on the SRC.
We
appreciate him taking the time to find the right
person for the job. We believe Prof. Ramirez will
be a valuable addition to the SRC, and the School
District of Philadelphia!
Click
here to read about the Eagles Eye Mobile
20,000th examination at the John B. Kelly School
on Halloween Day!
Texas prepares for Hurricane Dolly July 23, 2008 – Tropical Storm Dolly became Hurricane Dolly yesterday. It will strike the southern tip of Texas and northern Mexico today as a Category One storm. Six to ten inches of rain are predicted. Sunken German subs to be surveyed July 8, 2008 – NOAA and its partners have begun a 19-day expedition to study the wrecks of three German submarines sunk by U.S. forces in 1942 off the coast of North Carolina.
Obama continues Middle East tour July 22, 2008 – As part of a U.S. Senate delegation, Sen. Barack Obama took an aerial tour of Baghdad, Iraq yesterday with U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus.
FDA alert: jalapeno peppers July 22, 2008 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, FDA, announced yesterday that one jalapeno pepper sample tested positive for the Salmonella Saintpaul strain.
Pickens promotes wind energy July 21, 2008 – T. Boone Pickens, a Texas oilman his entire life, is telling Americans that we cannot drill ourselves out of the current oil crisis. It’s time to harness the wind.
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