African American Labor History Links Firsts in Black Labor History (illinois education Association/Wayback Machine copy) Rosina Tucker by David Pitts, US Information Agency http://www.afscme.org/about/aframlink.htm
Extractions: Africana.com: Labor Unions in the United States (Wayback Machine copy) Building Bridges: The Challenge of Organized Labor in Communities of Color by Robin D.G. Kelley, New York University African Americans and the American Labor Movement by James Gilbert Cassedy, Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration , Summer 1997, vol. 29, no. 2 Black Workers Remember by Jacqueline Jones, The American Prospect , vol. 11, no. 15, June 19 - July 3 2000. The Power of Remembering: Black Factory Workers and Union Organizing in the Jim Crow Era by Michael Honey, Organization of American Historians, 3/13/2001 Africana.com: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Community Action Agency Early Childhood education The East Central illinois Community Action Agency will coordinate the Dialogue on Poverty to be held on February 18, 2005. http://www.comaction.org/
Extractions: Administrative Office Our Mission Statement "To bridge the gap between economic, social, cultural or economic dependency and self-sufficiency by providing information, training, education, and other services that provide support to the disadvantaged." Dialogue on Poverty The East Central Illinois Community Action Agency will coordinate the Dialogue on Poverty to be held on February 18, 2005. The purpose of the Dialogue on Poverty is to attain information on the impact poverty has within Vermilion, Iroquois and Ford Counties The agency will bring together representatives from sectors across the community to discuss economic and social issues impacting on residents welfare and opportunities. Solutions to challenges will be formulated during the Dialouge on Poverty event. The event will be held in all three counties served by East Central Illinois Community Action Agency. Birth to Five Recruitment The East Central Illinois Community Action Agency is currently recruiting for the 2005/2006 Head Start Birth to Five program. Parents interested in enrolling their children in the program should contact a Family Development Specialist at (217) 446-1800 to make and appointment for information and an application.
ACE | Educational Research, Policy Centers, And Institutes Center for the Study of education Policy (illinois State University). Cooperates with other agencies and institutions in the development of higher http://www.acenet.edu/resources/policy-research/viewsubCategory.cfm?subcategoryI
The Champion - Education Issues And School Reform US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has wounded the illinois beast of corruption. education Consumers ClearingHouse education Intelligence Agency http://thechampion.org/
Extractions: In independent public opinion surveys conducted during the last several years, Americans have expressed consistent support for school choice. Support is notable even in polls whose design might be questionable or expected to elicit negative views. It's in middle schools that U.S. student achievement "begins its fateful plunge" and "a growing number of other nations begin to outpace us in the contest for a well-educated population, skilled workforce, and long-term prosperity." From the foreward by Chester E. Finn, Jr. NEWS FROM OTHER STATES The basic financial calculus of a school choice certificate proposal is that if the per student cost of each child receiving a school choice certificate is less than the per student state aid cost associated with these children if they attend public schools, then the program will save the State of New Hampshire money. "Last year researchers Jonah Rockoff from Columbia and Caroline Hoxby from Harvard rocked the education establishment by releasing a study on the positive effects of charter schools on student achievement in the Windy City of Chicago. They did it again this year. Their newly published study, released this fall, finds similar results charter school students outperform comparable students in Chicago conventional public schools." The Center for Education Reform, www.edreform.com.
State Boards illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation Will your board accept an EESA evaluation of foreign education (as described in the NCARB http://www.ncarb.org/stateboards/regboards.asp?Boardname=Illinois
Extractions: html doc pdf Mercury-Added Products Fact Sheets ... Invitation for Other State Agencies to Join IMERC Starting in 1999 the states in the Northeast and other parts of the country actively began to pursue enactment of legislation focused on reducing mercury in products and waste. In the Northeast these efforts focused on enactment of provisions of the Mercury Education and Reduction Model Legislation. Copies of the Model Legislation are available on this website at http://www.newmoa.org/prevention/mercury/final_model_legislation.htm In 2001 the Northeast Waste Management Officials' Association (NEWMOA) launched the Interstate Mercury Education and Reduction Clearinghouse (IMERC) (press release) to provide IMERC's Activities Overall IMERC facilitates deliberations that provide advice and assistance to the individual states for their decision-making.
NORC NORCs clients include government agencies, educational institutions, http//www.poetryfoundation.org/initiatives.html. illinois Health Curriculum Study http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/
Extractions: NORC is a national organization for research at the University of Chicago , with offices on the Universitys campus, in Chicagos downtown Loop, and in Washington DC, as well as a nationwide field staff. NORCs clients include government agencies, educational institutions, foundations, other nonprofit organizations, and private corporations. Although its national studies are its best known, NORCs projectswhich include complex survey and other data collection strategies as well as sophisticated empirical analysesrange across local, regional, and international perspectives as well. NORCs project work is done in an interdisciplinary framework, with strong staff cooperation across substantive areas. NORC is an equal opportunity employer committed to facilitating the personal and professional development of everyone on its staff. Working with Dr. Cathy J. Cohen from the University of Chicago, NORC will conduct the Youth Culture Survey. Young people from all over the nation will be contacted and asked to complete a telephone interview that covers political, cultural, and social ideas and experiences in order to help understand and begin to represent the perspectives and opinions of young people in the United States. Often, a youth perspective is missing in public policy debates and decisions that have significant influences on young peoples lives. Further, the researchers want to understand the connection between younger peoples attitudes and their actions. This important research effort is sponsored by the Ford Foundation, the University of Chicago, and NORC. To learn more about the Ford Foundation, please visit their website at
SchoolGrants Links - Federal Agencies Federal agencies. Regional Educational Laboratories States Served, illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin http://www.schoolgrants.org/Links/fed_agencies.htm
Extractions: Index to Grant Opptys Sample Proposals ... Join the SchoolGrants Team! Links - Federal Agencies G et into the habit of regularly checking the various federal Web sites. These agencies frequently publish grant information as well as other useful data. If you know of links that should be included here, please let me know . If you encounter a "dead" link, I would appreciate it if you would let me know - please include the Web page on which you encountered the problem so I can find it to correct it. (Links on SchoolGrants always open in their own windows so you will always be able to return to your spot on this site.) Federal Agencies Regional Educational Laboratories Federal Agencies Department of Education Education Publications Related to ESEA Programs
Extractions: Student Resources Prospective Students: Student Loans Scholarships Self-Assessments Newsletter ... College Rankings Current Students: Search Tools Reference Tools Virtual Libraries About Online Education: Accreditation Diploma Mills eLearning Assessment eLearning FAQ ... Educational Technology Relevant News Accrediting Bodies Considering Standards "The six bodies that grant accreditation to colleges and universities in the United States are near agreement on guidelines for evaluating distance education that differ from traditional accrediting standards by focusing on how much students learn. If enacted, the regional accrediting agencies would use the guidelines to set standards for granting accreditation to distance-education programs and institutions." "Representatives of the six U.S. regional accrediting bodies have finalized a set of recommendations for building and evaluating online-education programs. But the recommendations won't become accreditation standards, says Charles M. Cook, the director of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges' Commission on Institutions of Higher Education. 'We've always considered them testimonials, not a new set of standards,' he says. 'It's always been the local regions' option of how to adopt them.'"
Illinois Institute For Rural Affairs (IIRA) Agency intended to monitor conditions in rural illinois, with the aim of improving community and economic development including education, health care, http://www.iira.org/
Extractions: Welcome to the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs (IIRA) Located at Western Illinois University , the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs is designed to improve the quality of life in rural areas by developing public-private partnerships with local agencies on small business development and community development projects in rural areas. The Institute works on projects including rural economic and community development (including value-added agriculture), health care, education, public transportation, public management policies, housing, and technology.
State Certified Defensive Driving Programs - NSC illinois Remedial education Course. illinois motorists under the age of 20 are in Texas through a Texas education Agency approved training center http://www.nsc.org/training/programs.htm
Extractions: The following is a listing of State Certified Programs that the National Safety Council administers through its Data Management Center. As the Course Provider for these state programs, we will assist you in obtaining the training necessary to meet the state's requirements. Contact us today for more information. New York motorists who complete the Defensive Driving Course 8/6 program in New York through a Department of Motor Vehicles approved training center: via email Connecticut motorists will be required to attend a Driver Retraining Program if they are: 16-17 years of age who have received their first conviction, 18-24 years of age who have received their second conviction, or 25 years of age or older who have received their third conviction within a three-year period. Motorists are notified by the Department of Motor Vehicles and are given 60 days to complete the program. Subsequent violations require a subsequent completion of the program. The four-hour Defensive Driving Course - Attitudinal Dynamics of Driving is an approved Driver Retraining Program and will meet this requirement.
Education Resource Organizations Directory (EROD) State education Agency (State Department of education) illinois Top illinois State Board of education 100 North First Street Springfield, IL 62777 http://bcol02.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/org_list.cfm?category_ID=SEA
Extractions: Search SIUC Rehabilitation Continuing Education Program Welcome to Region V Rehabilitation Continuing Education Program The Rehabilitation Continuing Education Program (RCEP) provides performance-based continuing education services to rehabilitation organizations and personnel in the six state Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) Region V who serve persons with disabilities. The program is designed to improve the job skills, provide new knowledge, and update the training of rehabilitation professionals through an integrated series of educational services that emphasize the skills necessary to a worker's effective performance. RCEP conducts continuing education workshops, seminars, conferences, and training sessions; collects and disseminates up-to-date information; and provides technical assistance and consultation to state agencies as well as public and private facilities, agencies, and organizations. Mailing Address
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency illinois Environmental Protection Agency www.epa.state.il.us IERG.org and click on the banner headline announcing the Series. http://www.epa.state.il.us/
Extractions: Radio Programs Rod R. Blagojevich ... If you enable JavaScript in your web browser, you can view our most recent news releases here. Otherwise, you can view Illinois EPA news releases at IGNN News Release Archive See also: Public Notices (updated frequently) The Summer 2005 issue of Environmental Progress is now available online. "To Provide and Maintain a Healthful Environment"-the Illinois EPA's first Biennial Report , gives a non-technical overview of Agency activities and other environmental information for calendar years 2003 and 2004.
Illinois State HIV/AIDS Resources Agency, illinois Department of Public Health HIV/AIDS Section Agency, AIDS Care. Phone, 773-935-4663. Web, www.aidscarechicago.org http://www.projinf.org/org/Regionrsrc/IL.html
Extractions: Care and Treatment resource guide The list below includes community based organizations, medical services, government and other organizations that provide a range of services including access information and referrals to local services in your area. We hope you find this information helpful. Note: To report any problems with links or contact information, or to let us know of appropriate services you would like to recommend being listed, either fill out this form , or email web@projectinform.org Agency Illinois State AIDS Hotline Phone 800-243-AIDS (2437) (In IL)
The Heartland Institute Click here to read about education and Capitalism, Heartland s newest book! The California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) lavished high praise http://www.heartland.org/
Chief Illiniwek Educational Foundation illinois Historic Preservation Agency illinois State Museum. logo As the honored symbol of the 2005 All content herein, CH.IEF, www.chiefilliniwek.org. http://www.chiefilliniwek.org/
Illionis illinois State Board of education 100 North First Street, C418 Springfield, IL 62777-0001 (217) 782-3370 STATE education AGENCY RURAL REPRESENTATIVE http://www.autism-pdd.net/links/illionis.html
CoSN: The Consortium For School Networking Alaska particularly relies on education technology to connect rural and urban centers with For further information, visit www.cosn.org. About ISTE http://www.cosn.org/about/press/032205.cfm
Extractions: Washington, D.C. â March 21, 2005 â Nearly 150 education technology advocates from 37 states fanned out across Capitol Hill today to demonstrate to Congress their strong opposition to the Administrationâs proposal to eliminate the Enhancing Education Through Technology Program (EETT). The education technology advocates held meetings with the offices of their respective Senators and US Representatives and explained how pivotal the EETT program is to complying with the No Child Left Behind Actâs goals of closing the achievement gap and ensuring that all teachers are highly qualified. The joint Advocacy Day was sponsored by the Consortium for School Networking and the International Society for Technology in Education. Advocacy Day participants, hailing from different points on the map and with vastly different technology needs, were unified in their message of support for EETT: Norton Gusky, coordinator of education technology for Fox Chapel Area School District in Pennsylvania, stated that: âEETT funds have been used to provide materials and training for teachers and administrators to deal with the mandates of
