Minnesota Parent Center Awards Family-Friendly Schools
(November 10, 2009) -- Four Minnesota schools were awarded as Family-Friendly Schools by the Minnesota Parent Center, Minnesota’s PIRC (Parental Information and Resource Center), a project of PACER Center. The awards were presented in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Education as part of Minnesota Parent Involvement Month in October. Parents were asked to nominate schools for efforts to create a family-school partnership.

“Schools that invite parents to be partners in education realize that families play an important role in student success,” said Heather Kilgore, director of Minnesota Parent Center, MN PIRC. “We applaud these schools, along with the parents of their students, for demonstrating what strong school-family partnerships can achieve.”

The winning schools were: Woodland Elementary School, Brooklyn Park; Highland Park Elementary, St. Paul; Zachary Lane Elementary, Plymouth (Randy Moberg, principal); Cologne Academy, Cologne.

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