Federal stimulus funds will save five 'school coordinator' positions

By DAVE GYMBURCH Staff writer

Published: 9/11/2009
Rome Daily Sentinel  

 

Federal economic stimulus money will help save five Rome "school coordinator" positions whose funding is ending, as well as extracurricular programs with the YMCA and Boys & Girls Club.

The new funding will succeed part of a federal "Safe Schools" grant that had paid for those programs, Superintendent Jeffrey P. Simons told the Board of Education Wednesday night. The money will cover two more years.

Included for the first year in 2009-10 is over $500,000 in stimulus money for Title 1 uses linked to the federal No Child Left Behind initiative. Simons said it will be paired with over $300,000 in the district's regular Title 1 money to continue the programs.

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Mediation Skills Training Course

Rome Safe Schools Coordinators attended a Mediation Skills Training course. Successful mediation programs empower students to resolve conflicts by promoting personal responsibility and creative problem solving in a safe and peaceful school environment.


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Rome Home Show Picture

Manning the Rome Safe Schools/Healthy Students booth at the Rome Home Show on April 29th, 2006, are representatives from partner organizations Catholic Charities and UCP Big Brothers Big Sisters Program. Over 5,000 people visited the show. Safe Schools representatives used the opportunity to educate the community about the initiative and to recruit volunteers for some of the programs.


Published: May 01. 2006 6:00AM, Utica Observer Dispatch, Utica, NY

Utica group helping Rome on grant
Patrick Corbett
Observer-Dispatch

ROME - In a model of regional cooperation, Utica Safe Schools Partnership is helping the Rome City School District use a $2.1 million federal grant as efficiently as possible.

Joelle Taylor, director of Rome's Safe Schools/Healthy Students initiative, said the Utica group trained and hired 11 coordinators, some with experience in the Utica program, to manage activities in each of Rome's schools. The services being offered deal with such issues as:

• Family literacy.

• Substance abuse counseling.

• Parenting training.

The coordinators will help the schools "address the problem of kids coming to school not ready to learn," Taylor said, a problem with roots in the social and emotional needs of the youngsters.

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