50 students from Theodore Roosevelt High School placed in jobs this year
Dave Wilson doesn't like to take the credit for helping special-needs students at Kent Roosevelt find real-world work experience. Instead, the instructor in the work-study program likes to pass on the credit to people like LaTavia Crawford, the people manager at Kent's McDonald's, and her boss, Ricky Wine. At the high school, Wilson teaches an employability class. It's his job to help students age 16 and older who qualify for an individualized education program and who may not excell at typical school studies to enter the work world after graduation. To do that, he relies on managers at businesses around Kent like Crawford and Wine who are willing to take a chance by giving young men and women a first job. "Tay and Ricky have been most …
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Chris Carman has helped obtain or administer almost $80,000 in grants for Kent City Schools
Chris Carman admits he's not some expert grant writer. "I've been really fortunate," he said. Fortunate to the tune of about $77,000. A science teacher at Theodore Roosevelt High School, Carman has either helped administer or apply for grants totaling almost $80,000 since 2007. Each grant included an environmental component. This year, Carman got a $5,000 grant from the Dominion Foundation for his submission "Water, Water Everywhere." He used the award to expand on his first grant — a $5,000 gift from the Kent Environmental Council in 2007 — for water quality testing. The KEC money bought LabQuest probes to teach students how to measure water quality in any body of water. The kits were used on Breakneck Creek and Fishcreek. The Dominion …
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Theodore Roosevelt High School
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Patricia
9:27 am on Saturday, March 17, 2012
Way to go Chris! more ›