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September 11, 2003
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Mike Andrei
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Daemen Receives $164,194 Grant From New York State Higher Education Teacher/Leader Quality Partnership
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Daemen College has received $164,194 from the New York State Higher Education Teacher/Leader Quality Partnership. This project, first funded in the fall of 1999 by the New York State Education Department's Dwight D. Eisenhower Grant Program, provides continued funding for an educational partnership between Daemen and the City of Buffalo to improve mathematics and science teaching for students in elementary and intermediate levels, in four city schools: PS 43, 66, 78, and 86. Instruction in the program will emphasize teaching new NYS Regents Math-Science Technology Standards, with a focus on special education.
In November of 1999, Daemen was awarded a $96,500 renewable Eisenhower Education Grant from New York State. Daemen has received funding for this program for four years, totaling $642,000 to date. Daemen's participation in the program is managed and administered by Jeffery Arnold, director of the Teacher/Leader Quality Partnership at Daemen. "Daemen College is grateful New York State has chosen to continue to support our partnership with Buffalo City schools," said Daemen President Dr. Martin J. Anisman. "This renewable source of funding will provide an important means to help students and teachers in these four schools meet - and exceed - new achievement standards set by the New York State Compact for Learning." Daemen's partners for this project include New York State Virtual Learning Space; the New York State Education Department; the Diocese of Buffalo; Liberty Partnership; BEAM (Buffalo Engineering Awareness for Minorities); Western New York Science Assessment Liaisons; Western New York School Support Center; the New York State Electric and Gas; Center for Achievement in Science at Daemen; and The Thomas Reynolds Center for Special Education and After-School Programs at Daemen. |