From: Hernandez, Angelita (GOV)
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 4:27 PM
Subject: What the Governor's Talking about Today

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What the Governor’s Talking about Today

Thursday, January 7, 2010

 

University, School District Participants in Michigan Teaching Fellowship Announced

This afternoon in Lansing, the governor along with representatives of the W.K Kellogg Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation announced the six universities and five school districts that have been selected to participate in the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellowship program.  Also present for the announcement were university presidents, school superintendents and other representatives of the participating universities and school districts.

 

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation announced the fellowship this past November when it awarded a $16.7 million grant to the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.  Over a two-year period, the Michigan Teaching Fellowship will train 240 new teachers to teach science and math in hard-to-staff middle and high schools in Michigan.

 

The six Michigan universities selected to educate the new teachers are Eastern Michigan University, Grand Valley State University, Michigan State University, University of Michigan, Wayne State University and Western Michigan University.  The five school districts in which the new teachers will be placed are the public school systems serving Detroit, Grand Rapids, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo and Benton Harbor.  During their first three years in the classroom, the 240 new teachers will provide high-quality math and science instruction to almost 90,000 students.

 

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