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• The Community Partnership Schools model brings educational, health care, and broader community resources together as a holistic approach to improving the academic well-being of the students. 90.7’s Brendan Byrne speaks to Amy Ellis, director of UCF’s Center for Community Schools and Jarvis Wheeler, regional director of Community Partnership Schools of the Children’s Home Society of Florida.
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• The Education Desk this week, spoke with UCF researcher and psychologist Dr. Kimberly Renk about how to start the conversation.
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• Space Florida’s Dale Ketcham explains how a new apprenticeship program will fill a gap in aerospace manufacturing talent, and how higher education is changing to reflect the sunshine state’s growing space economy.
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• The beginning of the school year is hard for any student-but what about a student who has recently immigrated either by themselves or with their family.
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• Growing up watching rocket launches and with a father working at NASA, Phil Metzger was himself launched into a career of studying space and sending up rockets himself. He sat with Brendan Byrnes to talk about how his father influenced him to become an engineer for NASA.
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• The Education Desk spoke with Mildred “Midge” Ruff about the most important lessons she learned inside and outside of the classroom.
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• For thousands of youth in Florida’s foster care system, getting a driver’s license can be a challenge. Keys to Independence is trying to change that. For the last four and a half years, the state funded program has helped hundreds of older teens get driver’s licenses and learner permits. Danielle Levien and David Finucane explain how the program works.
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• Beacon College just graduated its largest class of graduates ever. The Leesburg based college was founded in 1989, with the aim of educating students with learning disabilities. Beacon’s director of corporate and academic outreach Esteban Lopez, and career development instructor Jeremy Neilson join us for a conversation about the opportunities and challenges facing those students.
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• The Volusia County School Board voted this week to fire superintendent Tom Russell. The board was concerned about Russell’s communication- specifically about a Department of Justice investigation into the school district. Daytona Beach News Journal reporter Cassidy Alexander explains what led to Russell’s ouster and what’s next for the school district.
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• Hundreds of Brevard County teachers have left the job in the last three years, according to a recent article in Florida Today. Education reporter Caroline Glenn joins us to discuss why teachers are leaving and what the school district is doing to try and retain teachers.
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