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January 15, 2009 - Military Child Education Coalition Leads Meetings Some New Hanover County school employees had a little military training today. Nurses, guidance counselors, and social workers from area schools attended the first of two training sessions on National Guard families. The meetings are run by the Military Child Education Coalition to help school personnel understand the needs of kids whose family members are in the National Guard. Full Article +

January 14, 2009 - Finegan, West Jacksonville Schools to Remain Open Duval County School Board rejects recommendation to close the elementary schools. By Mary Kelli Palka People attending the School Board meeting Tuesday applaud after Duval County Superintendent Ed Pratt -Dannals announced that West Jacksonville and Finegan elementary schools will not be closed. Many parents, students and staffers from Joseph Finegan Elementary and West Jacksonville packed the chambers of the Duval County School Board on Tuesday night to ask that their schools not be closed. But before they could even get to the microphone, they learned that board members didn't intend to follow a recommendation from Superintendent Ed Pratt -Dannals to close the schools. The announcement, which came from Pratt -Dannals, was greeted with applause. Full Article +

January 6, 2009 - 4 -H Grant to Benefit Military Kids By David Snow Demopolis Times Usually, when you think about "military kids," you think of the children of soldiers who move from base to base, but since the conflict in Iraq began in 2003, there has been a new level of military kids. Those are the children of people who served with the National Guard or in the reserves who had regular civilian jobs most of the time and served a weekend in the summer. As more and more Guard members and reservists were called into the conflict, more and more children became military children. 4 -H is reaching out not only to these new military kids, but to all military kids through a grant that will allow those kids a chance to have fun with kids their own age. Full Article +