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In July of 2007 CTE Director, Rebecca Jones, announced that the Milan Special School District had been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Federal Perkins IV Program.
The Unified Safety Grant will promote the image of careers and the importance of ethics, inegrity and services to the public, as well as increase Career Education in areas of high demand. This grant will interchange the national focus on the area of safety for personal and public benefits to our school and community. Theory in the classroom can now be linked with vital and substantial hands-on experiences as students work with professionals in the community based projects which will be guided by fire fighters, police officers and law enforcement. This grant will impact the future workforce with enrichment in safety growing occupations and offer recruitment and help in retention in all areas of career and technical programs of study. Math, Science and English concepts will be enriched throughout our curriculum. This grant will help us build partnerships with public safety, corrections, and security cluster professionals in the mission to build and support education for all students, enriching personal, public and community safety through Career and Technical programs, core academics, high wage, high demand and high skill occupations. While bringing the community into the school, the impact of strong partnerships with our local industry and businesses in Milan, the students' learning will be more relevant and teacher motivation more challenging as we work together, striving for safety first while educating for excellence!
GOALS OF THE UNIFIED SAFETY GRANT
1. To provide real world math and science connections in all Career and Technical Career Clusters with the focus on UNIFIED SAFETY objectives.
2. To link community professionals and local businesses to provide training and support experiences in and outside of the school setting with national and state safety standards in project-based student involvement with a Fire Fighters Academy and Police Academy, local EMT units, employment training and professional certifications.
3. Students involved in courses aligned with comprehensive UNIFIED SAFETY objectives will provide a substantial cost savings to our local communities while being more confident in the event of personal family emergencies, natural disaster, educating our students, parents and community on a new level with cultural respect toward public safety and security for all learners with sources for non-traditional career education.
The areas targeted by the UNIFIED SAFETY GRANT are: math, writing, information technology, health and safety, business organizing for safety, ethics and safety, careers related to safety, intergration with Core Academics (relevance in learning safety techniques) and career education.
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