18 April 2008
LG 5K
Thanks to everyone that helped with the LG 5k Community Challenge. It was a great success. Rachel sent me this great picture of her and her friend Rick after the race. You wouldn't even know they'd been running.
03 April 2008
Stayin Classy in Tallahassee
05 March 2008
LG 33 5k
The Leadership Gainesville Community 5k Race for Charity is coming up soon!All the applicable info can be found on this page, but here it is in a nutshell:
April 16, 2008, 6:30 PM
Ironwood Golf Course, 2100 NE 39th Avenue, Gainesville, FL 32609
Runners Receive Free Food and Race Day Prizes!
Race will begin promptly at6:30 pm!
You can register at active.com if you want to race. We would also be glad to have any volunteers to help on race day.
Early online registration is $23. Otherwise it is $25. All proceeds benefit Tyler's Hope & Junior Achievement. These two worthy causes have an impact on our community. Let me know if you need more information.
19 February 2008
An Exciting Invitation
Leadership Gainesville 34 is cordially invited to attend the Junior League of Gainesville's Tour of Kitchens 2008 this Saturday.
This is your opportunity to tour 9 of Gainesville's finest kitchens and sample gastronomic delights from Gainesville's best eateries, including chefs from Dragonfly, MT's Chop House, Manuel's Vintage Room, Mario's Bistro, Sweet Dreams Ice Cream, The Flour Pot Bakery, Dorn's Liqour and Wine, Italian Quarter Bistro, Ti Amo, Mildreds, Gator's Dockside, Publix Catering, Peterbrook Chocolatier, D'lites, Sweetwater Coffee and more. Each kitchen will also feature information about the League's local projects to benefit the children of Alachua County, including my committee, the Holiday Toy Giveaway.
For more information about the tour or to order tickets, visit our tour website at http://tourofkitchens.com/ or the Junior League of Gainesville website at http://www.gainesvillejrleague.org/gainesville/index.jsp. Tickets are $20 if purchased before the event, $25 the day of. Tickets are also available at Crevasse's Regency Florist, Cherry Lane Furnishings at Town of Tioga, Gainesville Health and Fitness Center for Women, and Donna Mann State Farm Insurance office.
I'd also like to share a funny personal story about last year's tour. I was working at one of the houses, so I asked Tim ( my husband) and my dad if they would like to use my tickets and go on the tour. They said yes, mainly to be supportive of me, as they assumed that it would be all about fancy kitchens and design stuff that is more my style than theirs. Well, they were pleasantly surprised to say the least. By the time they got to the house where I was working, they were already planning their "Round II". They loved the food at each house and were planning on going by each house again in the afternoon because many houses have one demonstrator in the morning and another in the afternoon. Tim said that I should really emphasize to the men in LG that the tour is a great way to get brownie points with your significant other, and load up on great food. Both Dad and Tim are disappointed that they will be missing Tour this year due to the birth of our baby, however, I will be sending my inlaws in their place.
Jenn
This is your opportunity to tour 9 of Gainesville's finest kitchens and sample gastronomic delights from Gainesville's best eateries, including chefs from Dragonfly, MT's Chop House, Manuel's Vintage Room, Mario's Bistro, Sweet Dreams Ice Cream, The Flour Pot Bakery, Dorn's Liqour and Wine, Italian Quarter Bistro, Ti Amo, Mildreds, Gator's Dockside, Publix Catering, Peterbrook Chocolatier, D'lites, Sweetwater Coffee and more. Each kitchen will also feature information about the League's local projects to benefit the children of Alachua County, including my committee, the Holiday Toy Giveaway.
For more information about the tour or to order tickets, visit our tour website at http://tourofkitchens.com/ or the Junior League of Gainesville website at http://www.gainesvillejrleague.org/gainesville/index.jsp. Tickets are $20 if purchased before the event, $25 the day of. Tickets are also available at Crevasse's Regency Florist, Cherry Lane Furnishings at Town of Tioga, Gainesville Health and Fitness Center for Women, and Donna Mann State Farm Insurance office.
I'd also like to share a funny personal story about last year's tour. I was working at one of the houses, so I asked Tim ( my husband) and my dad if they would like to use my tickets and go on the tour. They said yes, mainly to be supportive of me, as they assumed that it would be all about fancy kitchens and design stuff that is more my style than theirs. Well, they were pleasantly surprised to say the least. By the time they got to the house where I was working, they were already planning their "Round II". They loved the food at each house and were planning on going by each house again in the afternoon because many houses have one demonstrator in the morning and another in the afternoon. Tim said that I should really emphasize to the men in LG that the tour is a great way to get brownie points with your significant other, and load up on great food. Both Dad and Tim are disappointed that they will be missing Tour this year due to the birth of our baby, however, I will be sending my inlaws in their place.
Jenn
14 January 2008
Law Enforcement Shadows
Thanks to Rachel McGriff for sending me this photo. As she put it:
Here is a shot of Tony, Jill and I with our officers Friday night, keeping Gainesville safe.
You have to eat, right?
07 January 2008
Quality of Life (months later)
This is quite late, but that's my fault. Thanks to Karen Rice for taking the photos. If anyone wants anything posted on the blog, just send me an e-mail or give me a call.
07 November 2007
Education: Food for Thought
From today's Wall Street Journal, an editorial by Dr. Paul Peterson, professor of government at Harvard University and director of its Program on Education Policy and Governance, and Matthew Chingos, a research fellow at the Program:
In effect, a competition was run among the three types of management -- for-profit, nonprofit, and government-run. Four years into the race, here are the results: Students at schools managed by for-profit firms were roughly six months ahead in math than would be expected had the schools remained in the hands of the school district. In reading, students in schools managed by for-profit firms were two months further along than they would have been if the schools had been under district control, though that difference was not large enough to give us statistical certainty. Meanwhile the nonprofits -- and the school district's own reorganized schools -- did no better than expected.
Our findings are based upon information gleaned from nearly 400,000 student test scores made available to us by the School District of Philadelphia. They gave us the test scores of every tested student for the years 2001 through 2006, allowing us to track student performance at for-profit, nonprofit and low-performing district schools both before and after the management changes took place.
...Though we believe our methodology to be state of the art, our findings will nonetheless be controversial, because they contradict a prior study by the RAND Corp. in February, which found no impact of private management on student performance. The RAND study, however, failed to separate out the schools managed by the for-profit firms from those managed by the nonprofit organizations. In our study, too, management effects are nil when the two are mixed together, as the positive impacts of for-profit firms are canceled out by the negative impacts of nonprofit organizations.
Even Adam Smith would not expect that for-profit management will work anytime, and anywhere. But the Philadelphia results demonstrate that putting schools in private hands could lead to improvements in education. At the very least, the current Philadelphia for-profit schools should be allowed to continue under private management. If results from the first four years continue to hold up, they make a strong case for giving the private sector a larger role in urban education
This issue will continue to unfold. Any thoughts?
In effect, a competition was run among the three types of management -- for-profit, nonprofit, and government-run. Four years into the race, here are the results: Students at schools managed by for-profit firms were roughly six months ahead in math than would be expected had the schools remained in the hands of the school district. In reading, students in schools managed by for-profit firms were two months further along than they would have been if the schools had been under district control, though that difference was not large enough to give us statistical certainty. Meanwhile the nonprofits -- and the school district's own reorganized schools -- did no better than expected.
Our findings are based upon information gleaned from nearly 400,000 student test scores made available to us by the School District of Philadelphia. They gave us the test scores of every tested student for the years 2001 through 2006, allowing us to track student performance at for-profit, nonprofit and low-performing district schools both before and after the management changes took place.
...Though we believe our methodology to be state of the art, our findings will nonetheless be controversial, because they contradict a prior study by the RAND Corp. in February, which found no impact of private management on student performance. The RAND study, however, failed to separate out the schools managed by the for-profit firms from those managed by the nonprofit organizations. In our study, too, management effects are nil when the two are mixed together, as the positive impacts of for-profit firms are canceled out by the negative impacts of nonprofit organizations.
Even Adam Smith would not expect that for-profit management will work anytime, and anywhere. But the Philadelphia results demonstrate that putting schools in private hands could lead to improvements in education. At the very least, the current Philadelphia for-profit schools should be allowed to continue under private management. If results from the first four years continue to hold up, they make a strong case for giving the private sector a larger role in urban education
This issue will continue to unfold. Any thoughts?
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