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Granholm: A Landmark Week for Education in Michigan
Jan. 8, 2010: In her weekly radio address, Governor Jennifer M.
Granholm said this was a landmark week for Michigan education
with the signing of the Race to the Top legislation and
news about the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Woodrow Wilson
Michigan Teaching Fellowship.
“On Monday, I signed a five-bill legislative package that
reforms Michigan’s education
system and allows the state to compete for up to $400 million in
federal Recovery Act funds for our schools through
President Obama’s Race to the
Top initiative,” Granholm said. |
Governor Jennifer M. Granholm |
“I want to commend the legislature for its quick, bipartisan
action on these reforms which focus on how we can improve
student academic progress. We now will have a system for
measuring academic growth, and every single person in our
education system will be accountable for children’s academic
progress.”
Also making news this week, the governor said, was an
announcement Thursday about the universities and school
districts participating in the Michigan Teaching Fellowship,
created last fall when the W.K. Kellogg Foundation announced a
$16.7 million grant to the Woodrow
Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Over a two-year
period, the fellowship will train 240 new math and science
teachers who during their first three years in the classroom
will teach almost 90,000 students.
“The 240 new teachers will teach in the five school districts
that serve the cities of Detroit,
Grand Rapids,
Battle Creek, Kalamazoo and
Benton Harbor,” Granholm said. “And the six universities
selected to educate these new teachers are Eastern Michigan,
Grand Valley State, Michigan State, U-M,
Wayne State, and Western
Michigan.”
“The W.K. Kellogg Woodrow Wilson
fellowships, the Race to the Top initiative, and
our state education reforms are
transformational for our students, teachers, schools and
universities,” Granholm said. “All share a common goal: giving
children throughout Michigan the world-class education and
skills they need to compete in a global economy.”
The governor’s weekly radio address is released each Friday and
may be heard on broadcast stations across the state. The
address is available for download on the governor’s Web site at
www.michigan.gov/gov together with a clip of
the quote above. The radio address also is available as a
podcast on the Web site as well as on
iTunes and via RSS feed for general distribution to
personal MP3 players and home computers. Links to the audio
files and text of today’s address follow.
On the Internet:
Full:
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/gov/Gov231Full_306695_7.mp3
Edited:
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/gov/Gov231Edit_306697_7.mp3
Quote:
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/gov/Gov231Quote_306700_7.mp3
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