[CPEO-IRF] BRAC growth impacted schools

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

School chiefs plan funds strategy
How to deal with military growth focus of meeting

BY HARRY FRANKLIN
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA)
January 27, 2006

Superintendents who expect additional students from growth at nearby 
military installations spent the day Thursday in Atlanta developing 
strategy on how to pursue federal funds to help meet facility needs.

"It was a great meeting," said Muscogee County School District Deputy 
Superintendent Robin Pennock. "The next step will be to work with some 
congressmen and staffers in Washington, D.C., to actually write language 
that will become the vehicle for this. That will probably occur in early 
to mid-February."

About 25 people, including two representatives from the U.S. Department 
of Defense and Gov. Sonny Perdue's military adviser, gathered at an 
Atlanta hotel for a meeting of the newly formed Seven Rivers Coalition.

School officials attended from districts near Fort Bliss, Texas; Fort 
Carson, Colo.; Fort Riley, Kan.; Fort Lee, Va.; Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.; 
Little Rock, Ark., Air Force Base; four from the Muscogee district, 
including Superintendent John Phillips; and the Fort Benning Futures 
Partnership.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/local/13721817.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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