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  2. AdoptAClassroom.org - Wikipedia

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    AdoptAClassroom.org is a national nonprofit organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that provides funding for school supplies to classrooms and needy families. [1] It was founded in 1998. Current and past corporate partners include Burlington, Quaker, Staples, Farmers Insurance, Lane Bryant, Maurices, Great Clips, Subaru, OfficeMax ...

  3. Pen pal - Wikipedia

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    Adopt a School Program, connecting Iraqi schools with U.S. schools to help with supplies and start a pen pal program. Pen pals (or penpals, pen-pals, penfriends or pen friends) are people who regularly write to each other, particularly via postal mail. Pen pals are usually strangers whose relationship is based primarily, or even solely, on ...

  4. Year-round school in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Year-round school is the practice of having students attend school without the traditional summer vacation, which is believed to have been made necessary by agricultural practices in the past, the agrarian school calendar consisted of a short winter and a short summer could help with planting in the spring and harvest in the fall. In cities ...

  5. Ruth B. Love - Wikipedia

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    In November 1981 Love proposed Report Card Pick-Up, ordering only parents or guardians pick up student report cards from school, prior to previous years. [31] Love implemented the "Adopt–a–School" program in which schools within the district received money, equipment and other support from specific individuals and corporations in January 1982.

  6. Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 - Wikipedia

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    The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 (AACWA) was enacted by the US Government on June 17, 1980. Its purpose is to establish a program of adoption assistance; strengthen the program of foster care assistance for needy and dependent children; and improve the child welfare, social services, and aid to families with dependent children programs.

  7. Covington County School District (Mississippi) - Wikipedia

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    In 2012, the Covington County School Board adopted the CHART policy to teach sexual education. Mississippi First reports that this move allows "all [Covington County] public school students in grades 6-9 ... access to evidence-based sex education this fall." The adoption raised the number of Mississippi school districts participating in CHART ...

  8. Long Beach Unified School District - Wikipedia

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    The district was the first large urban school district in the United States to require school uniforms. [7] On August 23, 1994, SB 1269 the School Uniform Law was approved by the Governor of California to support schools that adopt a school-wide uniform policy, which also allowed parents to opt out of the policy. [8]

  9. St. Margaret's Co-educational English Secondary and Primary ...

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    St. Margaret's was founded in 1965, based on the traditions of Catholic Schools. At the beginning, the school was named St. Margaret's Girls College and located in Kowloon City. In 2001, the school joined the Direct Subsidy Scheme and began accepting male students. In September 2003, St. Margaret's became the first school in Hong Kong to adopt ...