Right now marks the 1st day Idaho large school college students are allowed to apply for state-sponsored school scholarships.
Earlier this yr, the Legislature consolidated scholarship plans and moved $ 5.9 million of funding into the Possibility Scholarship program.
The scholarship is a renewable award the provides need- and merit-primarily based scholarships to students graduating from Idaho substantial schools or earning their GED and who enroll in a state school.
A checklist of data and eligibility demands is available on the Idaho State Board of Education’s site.
Students applying for the scholarships want to take their SAT, ACT or COMPASS college entrance examination this month in buy to have final results obtainable in time for the March 1 application deadline.
NWPE awards grants
Two Nampa School District teachers and a Boise Substantial School English instructor won monetary awards or scholarships from Northwest Specialist Educators.
Fourth-grade instructor Anthony Haskett from Ronald Reagan Elementary won $ 460 to get iPods for his college students to use in creating multimedia presentations. Also in Nampa, Skyview Large College choir and Spanish instructor Joie Cariaga won $ 500 to put towards iPads that will be incorporated into the courses.
Boise Higher School English and literature teacher Heather Marr won a $ 500 scholarship to present and attend the Nationwide Council of Teachers of English conference in Boston.
Twice a 12 months, NWPE awards $ 500 teacher scholarships and classroom grants to educators. Additionally, $ 250 New Classroom Startup Grants are offered to beginning teachers who apply ahead of the Dec. 31 deadline.
Cariaga and Haskett are each members of the nonprofit NWPE, a nonunion expert education association.
Far more groups voice assistance for Idaho Core Specifications
The presidents of School of Idaho and Northwest Nazarene University published an op-ed in the Idaho Statesman, voicing their help for the state’s new K-twelve requirements in mathematics and English language arts.
“All Idaho students, whether they attend a public or personal university, deserve the likelihood to be profitable academically so that they can be productive in life. That’s why we wholeheartedly endorse the effective implementation of the Idaho Core Standards. The specifications establish a new baseline for what our state’s public college college students discover in math and English. They will turn into a far better signifies to put together our youthful men and women for the rigors of a postsecondary training and for the present day workplace,” wrote David Alexander of Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa and Marvin Henberg of the College of Idaho in Caldwell.
The presidents of Idaho State University, Boise State University, University of Idaho, and Lewis-Clark State School published a letter of help for the Idaho Core Standards in May possibly.
On Nov. 8, the Idaho School Boards Association voted during its yearly meeting to publicly help the standards.
A group of more than twenty educators and firms have joined a coalition called Idahoans for Excellence in Training, began in July by the Idaho Company for Education (IBE), which also supports Idaho Core Specifications.
Sugar Salem students to talk with President Carter
Sugar Salem Substantial School will celebrate the anniversary of the Alaska Nationwide Curiosity Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) by joining President Carter on a dwell videoconference with only 4 other higher schools close to the country. Carter will speak to the college students about the influence of ANILCA, which doubled the dimension of the National Park Service, prior to answering pupil queries.
A live net stream will be available beginning at eleven:45 a.m. on Monday at Idaho Public Television’s site: http://idahoptv.org/INSESSION.
Far more occasion information and sources are available on the National Park Services website: http://www.nps.gov/teachers/
This program is component of the Presidential Principal Sources Project, a collaborative program sponsored by the U.S. Presidential Libraries and Museums, the Nationwide Park Service, the Internet2 K20 Initiative, and other stakeholders, including the Idaho Schooling Network. For far more data: https://k20.internet2.edu/
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