FOR RELEASE: July 26, 2006 |
Contact: Public Affairs (202) 401-1576 |
Schools in California, New York, the District of Columbia, Indiana, Texas, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Illinois and New Mexico will share $15.5 million in grants designed to help them implement programs that teach the principles of character development and the responsibilities of citizenship to their students, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced today.
"Character education in the classroom supports students on a path to becoming honorable and compassionate," Secretary Spellings said. "Lessons in responsibility and respect are just as integral to a well-rounded education as lessons in reading, math and science."
The Partnerships in Character Education Program awards grants for up to four years to eligible state and local education agencies to design and implement character education programs, which teach students core ethical concepts, such as: civics; citizenship; justice; responsibility; and respect themselves and others. Grant recipients must show how they have integrated character education into classroom instruction and teacher training. They also must involve parents, students and the community in the process. The projects are evaluated to determine their success in helping students develop positive character, reduce discipline problems and improve academic achievement. Projects also must increase parent and community involvement with the school. This year's recipients were chosen from among 227 applicants.
Since 1994, a total of 136 state and local education agencies have received character education grants. No Child Left Behind expanded funding for the Partnerships in Character Education Program from $8 million to $24 million.
More information on Character Education grants is available at: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osdfs/programs.html. A list of the 2006 grantees follows.
Partnerships in Character Education
Fiscal year 2006 Grant Awards
California | ||
Costa Mesa | Orange County Department of Education Contact: Betsy Arnow, (714) 327-1053 |
$549,382 |
Napa | Napa County Office of Education Contact: Julie McClure, (707) 665-4232 |
$412,873 |
Hayward | Alameda County Office of Education Contact: Ginny Lee, (510) 670-4283 |
$493,077 |
San Diego | San Diego County Office Of Education Contact: Charles Daleo, (619) 718-6674 |
$496,393 |
Lennox | Lennox School District Contact: Carrie Ann Ortiz, (310) 330-4910 |
$344,613 |
Hanford | Hanford Elementary School District Contact: Sylvia Robinson, (559) 585-3617 |
$496,853 |
Woodland | Woodland Joint Unified School District Contact: Edgar Lampkin, (530) 662-0201 |
$494,471 |
Vallejo | Mare Island Technology Academy Contact: Louise Santiago, (707) 552-6482 |
$404,127 |
District of Columbia | ||
Washington, D.C. | Hyde Park Leadership Public Charter School Contact: Jacqueline Frierson, (202) 529-4400 |
$425,840 |
Florida | ||
Ft. Lauderdale | School Board of Broward County Contact: Dianne Sepielli, (754) 321-2494 |
$376,260 |
Largo | School Board of Pinellas County Contact: Charlie Eubanks, (727) 588-6299 |
$452,634 |
Quincy | Gadsden County Schools Contact: Jan Anderson, (850) 627-9651 |
$383,512 |
Illinois | ||
Wood River | Wood River-Hartford School District #15 Contact: Michael Loftus, (618) 254-9048 |
$625,606 |
Indiana | ||
Indianapolis | Indianapolis Public Schools Contact: Wanda Riesz, (317) 226-2165 |
$347,944 |
Massachusetts | ||
Fiskdale | Burgess Elementary School Contact: Katharine Fitzgerald, (508) 347-2697 |
$367,149 |
Michigan | ||
Saginaw | Saginaw Intermediate School District Contact: Rich Van Tol, (989) 399-7423 |
$298,610 |
Howell | Charyl Stockwell Academy Contact: Diane Vance, (734) 878-2112 |
$428,799 |
Flint | Genesee Intermediate School District Contact: Gloria Bourdon, (810) 591-4447 |
$486,504 |
New Jersey | ||
Trenton | New Jersey Department of Education Contact: Susan Martz, (609) 292-5935 |
$641,285 |
New Mexico | ||
Las Vegas | Northeast Regional Education Cooperative Contact: Mary Schutz, (505) 426-2085 |
$497,556 |
New York | ||
Niagara Falls | Niagara Falls City School District Contact: Robert Bradley, (716) 284-3314 |
$356,660 |
Buffalo | Buffalo City School District Contact: June Simmons Barrow, (716) 816-3966 |
$533,913 |
Brooklyn | Region 6/District 17 Contact: Barbara Berg, (718) 968-6181 |
$352,576 |
Utica | Utica City School District Contact: Carla Percia, (315) 792-2215 |
$494,554 |
North Carolina | ||
Greensboro | Guilford County Schools Contact: Terry Grier, (336) 370-8100 |
$372,290 |
Ohio | ||
Columbus | Ohio Department of Education Contact: Lucy Frontera, (614) 326-0613 |
$593,377 |
Youngstown | Youngstown City Schools Contact: Dawud Abdullah, (330) 744-6987 |
$437,416 |
Pennsylvania | ||
Harrisburg | Harrisburg School District Contact: Judith Nuss, (717) 703-4590 |
$375,570 |
Philadelphia | School District of Philadelphia Contact: Mary Lou Fischer, (215) 400-5713 |
$496,113 |
South Carolina | ||
Lancaster | Lancaster County School District Contact: Adrienna Witherspoon, (803) 416-8867 |
$459,423 |
Columbia | South Carolina Department of Education Contact: Joan Dickinson, (803) 734-4807 |
$504,898 |
Texas | ||
Houston | Houston Independent School District Contact: Karen Washington, (713) 556-7180 |
$497,666 |
Floresville | Floresville Independent School District Contact: Jackie Kutac, (830) 393-5300 |
$302,677 |
Cedar Hill | Cedar Hill Independent School District Contact: Roy Gregory, (469) 272-2050 |
$393,600 |
Virginia | ||
Portsmouth | Portsmouth Public Schools Contact: Sarah Sugars, (757) 393-8411 |
$344,594 |
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