December 1, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information contact:
Alice Nelson, Project Manager,
Commonwealth Institute for Parent
Leadership
800-928-2111 ext 232
Local residents complete parent institute
LEXINGTON, KY— Area residents Melissa Austin, Jessica Berry, Catherine Burnett, Lucy Mae Butler, Vivian Coles, Sonya Combs, Mindy Curless, Barbara Dixon, Liz Doss-Patterson, Ronea Fowler, Kristi Gabbard, Carol Gibson, Paul Gill, Erica Greene, Felicia Horton, Raviya Ismail, Tracy Lovan, Nancy McKenzie, Isabelle Mack-Overstreet, Susan Malik, Brian Miller, Stacey Rearic, Lisa Anne Satin, Terri Stevenson, Kirk Tinsley, Michelle Whitaker, and Rosha Williams have completed training for the Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership.
The Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership, a program of The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, prepares parents to work toward higher achievement for all public school students. The institute seeks to create a new level of parent engagement in our schools and is working with the One Community One Voice initiative in Fayette County to achieve this goal. Institute graduates commit to design and implement projects to improve student achievement and increase parent involvement in their schools.
Funding for the 2005 Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership has been provided by Columbia Gas of Kentucky, a NiSource Company; the Fayette Education Foundation; the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; and Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc.The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence is an independent, nonpartisan group of volunteers dedicated to improving education in Kentucky. For more information, visit the Prichard Committee’s Web site at www.prichardcommittee.org.
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