NATION’S GOVERNORS TO PRESENT FIRST ANNUAL PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP AWARD
WASHINGTON—The National Governors Association (NGA) will honor Ford Motor Company as the first recipient of the NGA Public-Private Partnership Award during its upcoming Winter Meeting. The award will be presented Sunday, Feb. 25, during the meeting’s second plenary session.
The NGA Public-Private Partnership Awards were established to recognize NGA Corporate Fellow companies for noteworthy partnerships with governors and states and honor companies that have partnered with a governor’s office to implement a program or project that positively affects a state’s citizens.
Ford Motor Company, headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, was nominated by Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm for its work in the field of education and the development and growth of the Ford Partnership for Advanced Studies (Ford PAS) program. Launched in 2004 by Ford Motor Company Fund, the philanthropic arm of Ford Motor Company, and developed in collaboration with Education Development Center, Inc., Ford PAS is a high school curriculum for the 21st century. The program is designed to engage and excite students in business, science, technology, engineering, design and math while building critical problem-solving and innovative thinking and learning skills. Ford PAS, originating in Michigan, is currently used in 130 sites across 21 states and has reached more than 10,000 students since its inception....
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Community High School in Romulus was one of the first alternative education programs to implement the Ford PAS program. Community High School students have been very focused and successful during the first year of this program.
In conferring the award, MAEO stated that the organization “is always looking for innovative programs to present to our membership, and we are proud to give our 2005 Program Component of the Year to this cooperative effort between Ford Motor Company and Community Alternative High School. May such partnerships grow and prosper.”
Rebecca Pek, Ford PAS coordinator at RCHS, made a presentation regarding the Ford PAS partnership. Her presentation was given at the MAEO Conference where the award was received. The presentation included statistical analysis of how the program is meeting objectives. An end-of-year analysis of is in progress. RCHS may have 90 students involved in the entire Ford PAS curriculum in 2005 – 2006.
Mr. Paul Poledink of Ford Motor Company Fund and Mr. Al Wilkerson, Principal of the
Romulus Community High School accept the award for the Program Component of the Year
for 2005 from the Michigan Alternative Education Organization (MAEO).
