Troops and Military Families Need Textbooks and Computers - Donate Today

March 11, 2009
We're partnering up with several companies to provide affordable textbooks to troops and military families seeking higher education, but we need your help.  If you are a company or individual who can donate laptops and computers to these deserving troops and military families, you can contact us via email at director@scholarshipsfortroops.org or send these items to:

Scholarships For Troops
620 Constitution Ave
Washington DC 20002

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Monterey Schools Propose Cuts to JROTC - Parents Rally

March 6, 2009
MONTEREY, Calif. - KSBW-TV

The Monterey Peninsula Unified School District added even more positions to the list of possible layoffs in an effort to save more than $11 million over the next few years.

More than 300 teachers, students, parents and district workers went to Monday's meeting. The majority were there to support the JROTC and music programs -- both are on the chopping block...

The love of music drew hundreds to Monday night's board meeting, supported by another group fighting to surv...


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Posted In : support our troops 

 

Possible JROTC cut concerns instructor

March 4, 2009
By  MICKEY POWELL - Bulletin Staff Writer

Martinsville High School’s JROTC program has turned students into leaders, or at least helped them achieve their full potential in life, during the past 25 years, according to retired Army Lt. Col. David King.

King, who oversees the program, said he remembers a few students who “I never thought would make it through” JROTC due to problems such as a lack of discipline. But “something clicked” in them, he said, and upon seeing them later i...


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California Schools Cutting JROTC Programs

March 2, 2009
CONCORD, Calif.—Teachers, vice principals and librarians may all be getting pink slips as the Mt. Diablo Unified School District moves to cut its budget.

The interim superintendent for the district says in order to balance the district's $297 million budget, the school board needs to make $8.1 million in cuts.

Board members are expected to vote on recommended cuts Tuesday that would include the layoffs of 98 teachers and other credentialed employees.

The jobs of some vice principals, ...


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