MARQUETTE — Time is running out for the Great Start Collaborative to match a grant, and they’re asking for your help.
They’re accepting general cash donations at any time until noon on Friday. They must match the grant of $100,000 from the Early Childhood Investment Corporation or else the money will be given to a different community in Michigan.
The money will help fund childcare and preschool scholarships.
“We are needing this money very, very much. The community needs it. We know that one out of five children in our community are living in poverty, and that’s a lot. So, we need to do our part to help them,” said Kathy Lammi, Great Start Collaborative Director.
To help raise money, they’ll hold a wine and chocolate tasting event with a silent auction at 6 p.m., July 28, at the UpFront & Company in Marquette. Tickets are $25.
Childhood scholarship applications are due on Monday, August 1, and you can get them at the Great Start Collaborative website.
UC Irvine has landed a federal grant to help pay for Orange Countys first nurse-managed medical clinic. Santa Ana charter school El Sol Science and Arts Academy and the non-profit Share Our Selves will operate the clinic with UCI’s nursing program.
The academy for preschool through 8th grade students already maintains a clinic for basic health education and referrals. The Irvine nurses-in-training will offer free medical treatment and health screenings to students and their families, many of whom don’t carry health insurance.
The clinic’s director says UC Irvine nursing students will be able to work in a setting that’ll reflect the future of medicine. That’s because federal healthcare reform will shift preventive and other forms of treatment from hospitals to smaller neighborhood clinics like the one at the Santa Ana charter school.
The $1.5 million federal grant to support that clinic will continue for five years after it opens in January 2012.
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Colleges are “not immune from financial pressures” and must show flexibility, Scotlands Minister for Learning and Skills Dr Alasdair Allan has said.
Speaking at a conference in Edinburgh, he noted that colleges are critical for providing learners of all ages with the skills they require for the workplace.
However, Dr Allan argued that given the tough economic climate, colleges must be willing to adapt.
“However, like every other area in these very difficult economic times, colleges are having to reposition themselves, in some cases dramatically so, and having to look at how they can make significant efficiencies,” he explained.
“Two of the most significant beacons of this type of approach in the last 12 months have been the creation of City of Glasgow College – Scotlands biggest – and, in the east, the discussions taking place on the merger of Stevenson and Jewel and Esk Colleges.
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What’s more important: grades or tests? This college’s experiments may have the answer.
In their 2007 class, students who entered under the test-optional program graduated at a slightly higher rate than those who submitted test scores. This group also yielded a slightly higher cumulative GPA, and course completion rates than those students who submitted test scores.
The school joins the ranks of several hundred other colleges that have gone test-optional, part of a gradual shift in admissions criteria to value grades over test scores.
NORTHERN WISCONSIN — When you’ve got 100,000 paintballs, a very eager crowd of competitors and five serious missions, the stakes don’t get much higher.
It’s all part of a National Guard mission: give area youth something to do that’s outside the box
“They’re actually out practicing teamwork, they’re practicing working together, they’re practicing respecting each other,” says Scenario master of the event, Evan Blagec.
“Video games are pretty unrealistic, a lot of that stuff is just for the simple fact that you’re just pushing a button,” says Tim Wilkinson of the National Guard. “This is as realistic as you can get.”
About 60-70 kids competed Saturday. In five years the event has grown from an idea to popular tri-year event, with donations from local businesses such as Nelson paint, City Sales, and Oasis Gas. The next competition will be held this fall.