Since 2000 the ShelterBox has worked worldwide to provide short term immediate shelter to people in crisis. It is the largest Rotary Club project in the world. If interested in learning more, read the attached pamphlet.
NEA's American Education Week spotlights the importance of providing every child in America with a quality public education from kindergarten through college, and the need for everyone to do his or her part in making public schools great.
Their annual tagline, Great Public Schools: A Basic Right and Our Responsibility, reflects the Association's calling upon America to provide students with quality public schools so that they can grow, prosper, and achieve in the 21st century.
In 2010, the 89th annual American Education Week will take place November 14–20.
At the regular monthly school board meeting Nov. 10, The elected members of the board of education were honored in connection with the Nov. 15 Illinois School Board Appreciation Day. Representing the citizens of the Pennoyer School District for a combined total of nearly 60 years of service, the members of the board demonstrate exemplary leadership on a regular basis. Across the state efforts of school board members often go unrecognized and unrewarded, so Pennoyer students, staff and administrators wanted to take the time to thank our board members for their dedication to the school, district and the community.