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LCLC Blog-It-All Challenge
Great news! The Lawton Chiles Leadership Corps is very excited to announce the first state wide LCLC Blog-It-All Challenge! Beginning September 1, 2009, LCLC members will have the chance to win (see eligibility and guidelines below) a Dell Mini 10v Notebook. The notebook will be awarded to the LCLC member who posts the [...]
Inspiring video telling the story of how our dreams of becoming future leaders through education are being buried by Florida Education spending cuts! By Clicking on of the Social Media bookmark icons below you are taking a stand and pushing the message forward that we can not continue to be last.
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WHAT THIS IS
We want people to know about the work the Lawton Chiles Leadership Corps is doing to make Florida a better place. This is a sample of a press release you can use to create your own press release or blog story to send to your local media or post on your blog.
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Join us with a pledge to support children in Florida.
Florida ranks 49th. About 19 percent, or 763,000 of our children, do not have health insurance, versus a national average of 11 percent. Source: The Annie E. Casey Foundation Kids Count Data Center
Worst To First Updates
Florida ranks 48th in the nation in juvenile incarceration rates, with a custody rate of 451.8 per 100,000 children ages 10 and up. Source: Every Child Matters Education Fund, “Geography Matters: Child Well Being in the States,” 2008
In a city that faces some of the greatest challenges in education, Miami Dade College students step up and speak out regarding Florida education reform. Bud Chiles and the Worst to First team joined students to march through downtown Miami to help raise awareness and to encourage others to engage [...]
Florida ranks 50th in per capita spending on education, but ranks 16th in the nation in spending on corrections. Source: NEA Rankings of the States 2008
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