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Event/article #410 of org #77

Mental Health hears about Renaissance for Pueblo’s Young People

Empowering Education of Pueblo children & youth for 21st century

Richard Pinneau, PhD  & 2010 Education Task Force     Wed, May 14, 2008, 11:45a.

Event summary:

How might lives of Pueblo’s children and families be changed if they could count on support to go to college? Can we make education as sexy as drugs or early pregnancy? Would you support such a plan? Shall we mobilize all Pueblo? —2008-05-01

See all of Mental Health America - Pueblo, CO’s News & articles.

Cost: $15 (includes La Renaissance Buffet Lunch) or $12 for members

Registration: Register with Lura: mhapueblo [at] live.com

Event location: La Renaissance Restaurant, Routt & Michigan Aves, Pueblo, CO 81004

Full details:

Richard Pinneau, Chair of the Education Task Force of Pueblo 2010 Commission, presents:


 


PEER* - A Pueblo Educational & Economic Renaissance
 


Proposal from 2010 Education Task Force


The Vision:
 • Pueblo’s youth expect and plan for hopeful futures: they make wise life choices, finish school, delay parenthood reasonably, forego short-cut chemical ‘highs.’ In short: they feel able to create fulfilling and prosperous futures for themselves and their families.
 • Pueblo’s high-quality education and work opportunities retain its best students in Pueblo and attract gifted, well-educated, and ambitious graduates from around the U.S.
 • Quality employers choose to move businesses to (or to start them in) Pueblo County.
 • Pueblo’s new industries provide careers of the future (e.g., health, mental health, technology, information systems, communications, multi-lingual), bolstering our tax base.
 


 
Preliminary Roadmap to the Vision:*
The educational work and achievement of each student graduating from a Pueblo City or County school is rewarded with 100% of tuition/fees for post-secondary education/training: up to four years at Colorado Public Universities and/or Community Colleges.
 


On March 13, 2008, the Pueblo 2010 Commission adopted the following:
That 2010 Commission establish an ad hoc PEER* Task Force comprised of the necessary stakeholders and advocates and — launching from the preliminary vision statement above — design a Pueblo Educational & Economic Renaissance* program consistent with the circumstances and needs of Pueblo communities.
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*The working titles and terms used here - and even the vision itself - will be finalized by ad hoc Task Force as it meets.
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Contact us
If you share part of the above vision and want to be contacted about a formative meeting for the task force, please send your contact information to:
 
     Education Task Force Chair, Richard Pinneau:
     Richard@PuebloServes.org or 720 N. Main St, #335, Pueblo, CO 81003 


 


Where to learn more:


You will also find our most recent documentation on the potentials and challenges of such a project (considering others cities' experiences) at www.PuebloServes.org/renaissance


 

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