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The Minnesota Parent Center is a unique statewide project designed to help families and schools build stronger ties to benefit students.
The Minnesota Parent Center provides:- free research-based training for Title I schools
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We help parents be strong partners in their children's education and encourage community involvement to help all children succeed at school. We can answer questions and help you solve school-related problems.
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Minnesota Parent Center, MN PIRC Awards Family-Friendly Schools
Photo: Jeff Longenecker of the Minnesota Parent Center presents a Family-Friendly School Award to Principal Linda Perdaems of Woodland Elementary School in Brooklyn Park.
Four Minnesota schools were recently awarded as Family-Friendly Schools by the Minnesota Parent Center. The awards were presented in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Education as part of Minnesota Parent Involvement Month in October. Parents were asked to nominate schools for efforts to create a family-school partnership.
“Schools that invite parents to be partners in education realize that families play an important role in student success,” said Heather Kilgore, director of Minnesota Parent Center, MN PIRC. “We applaud these schools, along with the parents of their students, for demonstrating what strong school-family partnerships can achieve.”
The winning schools were: Woodland Elementary School, Brooklyn Park; Highland Park Elementary, St. Paul; Zachary Lane Elementary, Plymouth; Cologne Academy, Cologne.
Parent Involvement Month was sponsored by the Minnesota Parent Center, MN PIRC. It is cosponsored by the Minnesota Department of Education, Minnesota Association of School Administrators, Minnesota Association of Secondary School Principals, Minnesota Elementary School Principals Association, Minnesota Association of Administrators of State and Federal Education Programs, and Minnesota PTA.
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