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The American Samoa Department of Education named reading improvement (K-12) its top academic priority beginning this school year. At the elementary level, instructional time for reading has doubled; a more promising program of reading instruction has been adopted; and regular, on-going reading in-service is provided. At the secondary level, each high school identified reading as a critical learning result in the restructuring process currently in progress. More specific standards and benchmarks to guide reading instruction are being drafted, and more authentic means of assessing students? reading ability were piloted last spring. The recently formed Office of Student and Teacher Services and the Division of Curriculum and Instruction are charged with providing coherent pre-service and in-service to teachers, with particular emphasis on critical areas such as reading instruction. ... [Read More]
Congressman Eni F. H. Faleomavaega - American Samoa - Press Releases
Congressman Faleomavaega Announces Student Loan Cancellation Program for Elementary and High School Teachers (April 24, 2003) ... Washington, D.C.—House Transportation Committee Agrees to Increase Highway Funding for Territories and Include $14 Million for Village Road and Other Improvements in American Samoa (March 25, 2004) ... [Read More]
Eni Faleomavaega, United States Congress
Announced that teachers employed in American Samoa may be eligible to apply for cancellation of their student loans. In order to qualify, an individual must work as a full-time teacher for five consecutive years in an elementary or high school that has been designated as low-income. Thirty-seven schools in American Samoa are designated as low-income. . ... Obtained $1.5 million to Improve the Water System for Fagaitua High School ... Secured additional appropriations from Congress to build gymnasiums at Leone, Tafuna, Fagaitua, and Manu'a High Schools. ... [Read More]
Eni Faleomavaega, United States Congress
Congressman Eni F.H. Faleomavaega was born in Vailoatai Village, American Samoa on August 15, 1943 and holds the matai, or chieftain, orator title of Faleomavaega. Congressman Faleomavaega graduated from Kahuku High School, Hawaii in 1962 and later earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Faleomavaega also holds a Juris Doctorate (JD) from the University of Houston Law School and a Master of Law (LLM) from the University of California at Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law. ... [Read More]
Tauese Pita Fiti Sunia was born on August 29
He taught high school students in Nebraska before returning to American Samoa in 1966. On his return to American Samoa, Tauese taught at various high schools. ... He attended Fagatogo, Poyer and Marist schools and graduated from Samoana High School in 1960. Tauese attended York College in Nebraska and Ottawa University in Kansas before graduating from Kearny State Teachers College majoring in history and political science with a certification in secondary education. ... [Read More]
Eni Faleomavaega, United States Congress
Vailoatai and Laie Elementary Schools Kahuku High School, Hawaii, 1962 Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Political Science/History, 1966 University of Houston Law School, Texas, Juris Doctor (JD), 1972 University of California - Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, Master of Law (LLM), 1973 ... [Read More]
Census 2000 Glossary of Basic Geographic and Related Terms
school district - A geographic entity within which state, county, or local officials or the U.S. Department of Defense provides public educational services for an area’s residents. The U.S. Census Bureau provides data for three types of school districts: elementary, secondary, and unified. ... metropolitan area (MA) - A core areas with a large population nucleus, together with adjacent communities that have a high degree of economic and social integration with that core. (Some MAs are defined around two or more nuclei.) MAs are designated by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in terms of one or more counties or, in New England, county subdivisions (primarily cities and towns). The OMB defines and designates metropolitan areas based on a set of official standards that are published in the Federal Register. "Metropolitan area" is a collective term established by the OMB in 1990 to refer to metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), consolidated metropolitan statistical areas (CMSAs), primary metropolitan statistical areas (PMSAs), and New England County Metropolitan Areas (NECMAs). ... [Read More]
Faleomavaega Congratulates 2003 Graduating Class
“Finally, I want to thank the studentsof ASCC and Manumalo Baptist High School for inviting me to be their commencementspeaker this year,” Faleomavaega said. “Although I was also invitedto the White House to welcome the President of the Philippines, the studentsat ASCC and Manumalo Baptist High School had already asked me to be theircommencement speaker and, as everyone knows, there are only two flightsin and out of American Samoa. Given the choice between welcomingthe President of the Philippines and being with our graduates, I can sayAmerican Samoa is and always will be my priority.” ... [Read More]
NoraColeman
Mrs. Coleman was born and raised in Honolulu. She had one brother and five sisters. She attended Sacred Hearts Academy in Kaimuki before moving on to the Kamehameha (High) School for Girls where she graduated with honors in 1938. She completed one year at the University of Hawaii-Manoa before being forced by the sudden death of her father to drop out to help support her family by going to work. ... In 2003, much to her great surprise and pleasure, a stranger returned her high school class ring, which she had lost while swimming at Waikiki shortly after her graduation in 1938. She had never held out any hope that the ring would ever be found. The story was prominently reported by both the Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. ... [Read More]
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