Sentences with phrase «lakes education project»

According to Gary Naeyaert, executive director of the Great Lakes Education Project, most Michigan school districts have fewer students than in the past.

Leading the charge was the Great Lakes Education Project, or GLEP, a Michigan - based group created by the DeVoses to strong - arm state legislators.

The Free Press documented the way a lawmaker who dared to make a peep of protest against charter schools getting whatever they want suddenly found himself in a race against a challenger heavily funded by the Great Lakes Education Project, the «powerhouse lobby» of the Michigan charter movement.

After the failure of a legislative initiative to institute vouchers in Michigan, Ms. DeVos helped found the Great Lakes Education Project in 2001, to which DeVos family members have donated $ 1.47 million.

Those bills are the products of a Republican legislature — specifically state Sen. Phil Pavlov, who has taken in money from the DeVos - financed Great Lakes Education Project, according to campaign finance records filed with the state.

The Great Lakes Education Project feared that such a commission would have favored the public schools over the charter schools.

The Great Lakes Education Project has been explicit in its goal — the end of the Detroit Public Schools.

Until recently, most education - focused campaign spending not coming from teachers unions has been delivered by groups such as the American Federation for Children and the Great Lakes Education Project, both of which emphasize the use of public money to fund private schools with vouchers.

Through her network of nonprofits and political - action committees such as American Federation for Children and the Great Lakes Education Project, DeVos is pushing to direct public money into private religious schools like Potter's House.

«Calling John Austin a supporter of school choice is like calling Frosty the Snowman a supporter of global warming,» said Gary Naeyaert, executive director of the Great Lakes Education Project, in an email.

While DeVos» group, the Great Lakes Education Project, supported most of the changes, it pushed back hard against a proposed Detroit commission focused on improving both charters and traditional schools, contending it would be beholden to the city's mayor and school - district officials.

She is on the board of directors for the Great Lakes Education Project, which advocates for school choice and charter schools.

Great Lakes Education Project Executive Director Gary Naeyaert said Muxlow was targeted because his voting record contradicted his statements.

Gary Naeyaert, executive director of the Great Lakes Education Project and an advocate for charter public schools, was at the meeting and wondered why there was so much discussion about one charter public school when there were 40 - plus conventional public schools also with deficits.

Together, they started the Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP) which has worked to provide funding and private training to state legislators to advocate for the redirection of public funds from traditional public schools to other options, including charter schools, private schools, parochial schools (private schools with a religious affiliation) and online schools.

Leading up to the Senate Education Committee vote on April 28, the following groups turned in support for Click to add MIRS Bill Hound SB 0103 — the Michigan Association of School Administrators, Grand Rapids Public Schools, West Michigan Talent Triangle, the Michigan Association of School Boards, the National Heritage Academies, the South Central Education Policy Consortium, Michigan Association of Public School Academies, Great Lakes Education Project, Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agency, then - Dearborn Schools Superintendent Brian WHISTON and around 40 southeast Michigan school superintendents and Zimco and K - 12 Evaluation Solutions.

She even organized her own corporation, Great Lakes Education Project, carry out her mission to destroy public education.

Her level of influence is well established, and after the Michigan law passed the state House of Representatives, a press release from DeVos's group, the Great Lakes Education Project, noted that lawmakers «were successful tonight in preserving choices and options for [students] and their families -LSB-...] Despite efforts by some of the elites and big city bosses who believe they know what is best for children.»

Gary Naeyaert, executive director of the Great Lakes Education Project, said charter schools are often a better academic option for students than the conventional school district they came from.

In the early 2000s, she started a political action committee to influence education policy in Michigan, the Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP), which she and her extended family continue to support.

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In one of the projects designed by PBS Education, students can view a guided tour of various French explorers in the 17th Century that helped map out North America's diverse waterways, like the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.

$ 480,575 has been awarded from the Great Lakes Basin Small Grants Program; an additional $ 200,000 will be available 2017 to support coastal resiliency projects: · Natural infrastructure / living shoreline protection techniques · Coastal wetland monitoring and restoration activities · Green infrastructure to improve coastal resiliency · Community stewardship and education initiatives · Coastal property / ecosystem vulnerability analyses · Economic and social analyses of the value of resiliency measures

LAKE PLACID — Titans of North Country business, education, tourism and politics gathered at a ballroom here last week to finalize and vote on the projects that they hoped would net the region millions in state funds next year.

Smitsonian Institution Programs Summer Archeology Programs Connected with DC Universities [Program for Deaf Students] Drinking Water Quality Research Center, Miami, FL [proposal for outreach to disabled students] Museum of Science and Industry, IL Chicago Schools Cooperative Museum Program, IL Recreational Faculties for the Handicapped at Rend Lake, IL SELPH Material Lawrence Hall King Report on Survey of the Special Educational Programs of Members of the Association of Science Technology Centers University of Kentucky Outdoor Education for Handicapped Project Directory of OOPS Programs Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD [notes on interview] ABCD Collaboration Science Program Non-Mainstreamed Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Technical Education Research Center Camp Happy Hollow, Mayrille, MI Squam Lakes Science Center, NH Science Enrichment Program Opened to Handicapped Students NY League of Hard of Hearing, NY Center of Science and Industry, OH Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, PA Pacoma Environmental Education Center, PA Roanoke Valley Science Museum, VA Fairfax County Public Schools, VA US Geological Survey Earth Science Program, WI ERIC - CRESS Info on Outdoor Ed - Science Programs National Council for Therapy and Rehabilitation through Horticulture Environments for the Able and Disabled Nature Study - A Journal of Education and Interpretation OOPS Out of School Science Proposal and Drafts Original Newspaper Article, 1980 - 1981 OOPS Out of School Science Proposal and Drafts II, 1980 - 1981

That particular project is «made possible by funding from the Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice.»

Think Twice is a project of the National Education Policy Center housed at Boulder, and is funded in part by the Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice.

Half the project's cost is covered by a gift from the Sorenson Legacy Foundation and the building will be named the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts & Education Complex in honor of the Salt Lake City philanthropist, arts advocate and widow of Utah biotech entrepreneur James LeVoy Sorenson.

Thomas W. Shatzer 18705 Dry Lake Lane Pflugerville, TX 78660 [phone] [email protected] Dear Hiring Manager: I am seeking an opportunity to use my education, knowledge and skills in distribution management and Project Management.

Education / Certifications / Professional Development / Affiliations Business Communications — Doane College — Lincoln, NE completed 2 years 2001 - 2002 Customer Service / Project Management — Lake Forest Graduate School of Management 1998 - 1999

Seven PFS programs in the fields of juvenile justice, early childhood education, homelessness prevention and recidivism have been launched in the United States, including Chicago, IL; New York City, NY; Salt Lake City, UT; Cuyahoga County, OH; Massachusetts (two projects); and New York state.

The Gippsland East Post AFJ 44 Round Table — Collaborative Impact Project is a partnership between the Chairpersons of Gippsland Regional Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee (RAJAC) and Local Aboriginal Justice Action Group (LAJAC); Chairperson Indigenous Family Violence Regional Action Group (IFVRAG)-- Outer Gippsland; Chaiperson Local Aboriginal Network; and CEO's of the following Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHO): Lakes Entrance Aboriginal Health Association (LEAHA), Moogji Aboriginal Council East Gippsland, Gippsland and East Gippsland Aboriginal Cooperative (GEGAC), Lake Tyers Health and Children's Service, and Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust (LTAT) Ramahuck District Aboriginal Corporation and Department of Justice and Regulation (DRJ); Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); Department of Education (DET); Victoria Police (VicPol) and the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP)

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