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Monday, January 29th, 20073. _The National Convention_ (September 21, 1792, to October 26, 1795).
The Convention was also a radical body, deeply interested in the creation
of a system of state schools for the people of France. To higher education
there was for a time marked opposition, though later in its history the
Convention erected a number of important higher technical institutions and
schools, among the most important of which was the Institute of France.
There was also in the Convention marked opposition to all forms of
clerical control of schools. The schools of the Brothers of the Christian
Schools were suppressed by it, in 1792, and all secular and endowed
schools and colleges were abolished and their property confiscated, in
1793. The complete supremacy of the State in all educational matters was
now asserted. Great enthusiasm was manifested for the organization of
state primary schools, which were ordered established in 1793 (R. 258 a),
and in these:
01/29/2007 02:00 PM
County announces Midcoast park meetings
… Jan. 16, Seton Medical Center Coastside, Fireside Room; El Granada residents: 7 p.m., Jan 17, El Granada Elementary School, Multipurpose Room; Princeton residents: 7 p.m., Jan. 29, Harbor House Conference Room, 107 Broadway, Princeton. Want to talk …
01/29/2007 02:00 PM
Giuliani Hires Former N.H. GOP Chair
… Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack was named a visiting professor of law at Drake University, a private college in Des Moines, school officials said Monday. College officials said Vilsack will be in residence at the school “for several days” during 2007. He’ll …
01/29/2007 02:00 PM
St. Cecilia Chamber Choir concert to benefit The Leadership School at Kieve
… will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the door. All proceeds will go to The Leadership School at Kieve. The Leadership School is a program of Kieve-Wavus Education, Inc, a non-profit located in Nobleboro, Maine. Its …
01/29/2007 02:00 PM
Iraqis: at Least 200 Insurgents Killed
… women, and five other people were wounded. The strike came a day after mortar shells hit the courtyard of a girls’ school in a mostly Sunni Arab neighborhood of Baghdad, killing five pupils and wounding 20. A Sunni organization, the General …
01/29/2007 01:59 PM
Special education report readied for Fullerton School District trustees
FULLERTON Services that are provided to immigrant and special education students in the Fullerton School District will be reported on to the trustees at the 5:30 p.m. meeting Tuesday.
01/29/2007 01:59 PM
Mixed martial arts school replaces Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
When the founder of Half Moon Bay’s Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu School was arrested earlier this month, students and instructors found they had a new fight on their hands - one potentially tougher than any martial-arts …
01/29/2007 01:59 PM
Rotary Club’s Winter Carnival provides crisp, cold fun
… into Penobscot Bay at high noon. The plunge into the cold Atlantic Ocean was a fundraiser for Rockland District High School’s 2007 Project Graduation. Most of the plungers were RDHS students, but a handful of brave adults - including school …
01/29/2007 01:59 PM
Monday Report
… expo. If you would like to join us as a wedding expo vendor on Saturday, March 3rd at the Camden Hills Regional High School, please go to www.therealmaine.com and click on the expo link in the events section on the home page, or go to …
01/29/2007 01:58 PM
King County hosts Maple Valley public workshop for shoreline management review, Feb. 13
… County’s Shoreline Master Program update. The workshop is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Cedar River Middle School, 22615 Sweeney Rd. SE. King County is in the first stages of updating its Shoreline Master Program, a set of policies and …