Wednesday, September 15, 1999
Ohio honors 8 local education programs
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Eight education programs in Hamilton, Butler and Warren counties were honored Tuesday night at a gala in Columbus as Ohio's BEST practices.
BEST awards — which stands for Building Excellent Schools for Today and the 21st Century — are sponsored by the private Ohio Education Improvement Consortium, a statewide alliance of education, business, labor and community groups.
Forty-six programs — of 228 nominees — were honored statewide.
Local programs honored were:
• Butler County: Head Start program's “Promoting Literacy through Lending Libraries — Connecting Fami lies to Schools.”
• Hamilton County: Cincinnati Public Schools, Cincinnati Federation of Teachers and University of Cincinnati's professional practice school partnership; Edwin H. Greene Intermediate School's “Better All Together — Discipline with Dignity and Respect”; Great Oaks Institute of Technology and Career Development's placement services; Northwest High School's senior honors seminar; Taft High School, Cincinnati Youth Collaborative and Cincinnati Public Schools' Taft-Career Academic Program; Scarlet Oaks Career Development Center and Great Oaks' “Creating a Caring Learning Organization Focused on Student Success and Teacher Growth.”
• Warren County: Warren County Alternative School.
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