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One education committee was created by bringing together several groups: the United Way of Jackson County’s Education Community Solutions Team, the Jackson Community Foundation’s Legacy Scholarship Program Committee, the Jackson County Education Team, the Great Start Collaborative of Jackson County, the Promise Zone and the Jackson Citizens for Economic Growth Education team. This unified committee became what is now the Jackson County Cradle to Career Coordinating Council.
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Community leaders sign a common agenda, agreeing to work together on common goals
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Energizing Education announced during kick-off ceremony
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Energizing Education (a Cradle 2 Career strategy) launches at Frost School
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Cradle 2 Career has its public kickoff with a signing ceremony at the Michigan Theatre. Eighteen community leaders signed the Community Agenda, and dozens more showed their support by signing the C2C banner and joining School Success Action Teams
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Action teams formed as part of C2C begin to meet. C2C relies on six School Success Action Teams to develop and apply strategies to address students’ educational challenges. The teams are Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle School, High School, Post-Secondary and Community Engagement.
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Cradle 2 Career receives $60,000 implementation grant from the Michigan College Access Network, and hires Cradle 2 Career part-time coordinator
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Jackson County Intermediate School District and all county superintendents agree to joint funding of the College and Career Access Center for a 3-year commitment.
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The College Access and Career Center hires a new director.
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Irene Ellison LeCrone is the C2C coordinator. "In working together, we can and will solve some of our community’s most pressing educational challenges and take advantage of its greatest opportunities," she wrote in a C2C column.
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Energizing Education expands to Michigan Center’s Arnold Elementary
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College and Career Access Center opens at its new location, rebrands itself and expands it focus
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Energizing Education launches at Northwest’s Parnall Elementary School
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Every high school in Jackson County participates in College Application Week from Nov. 4-8.
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Federal student aid events held at the College and Career Access Center.
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The fourth Energizing Education literacy lounge opens at Grass Lake's George Long Elementary School.
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The Kids2College program launches at Springport and Northwest middle schools.
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A new pilot program, called Career Exploration Lunch, begins at Vandercook Lake Middle School. Students in sixth-eighth grades have the opportunity to talk with students at the Jackson Area Career Center, as well as professionals working in those careers in Jackson County.
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The College and Career Access Center's college advisors plan to begin offering a Summer Melt intervention.
