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Cleburne Times-Review: After-school program aims to help students prepare for TAKS

By Monica Green
Published: October 23, 2009

The East Cleburne Community recently opened a new after-school program called Project CAN.

“We did a program called SCORE, and it was about 10-12 kids and mainly included TAKS test preparation,” said Executive Director Dexter Baldwin. “But this program will top out at 50 students.”

Waco Trib: Federal aid to fund school mentors

Waco Tribune-Herald | By Wendy Gragg, Tribune-Herald staff writer | Friday, October 02, 2009

If you think you might be up for taking on a local student as a weekly lunch buddy or afternoon Scrabble partner, then Communities In Schools is looking for you.

Communities In Schools, a nonprofit agency that puts community resources to work to help children succeed in schools, is looking to significantly expand its school-based mentoring program after receiving federal stimulus funds.

Communities In Schools Heart of Texas has been granted $500,000 to use to recruit hundreds of people during the next few years to be mentors to 10- to 17-year-old students in Waco and La Vega schools and at the Waco Center for Youth’s Residential Treatment Center.

Waco Trib: Communities in Schools gets $500,000 grant

Waco Tribune-Herald | By Ken Sury | Friday, September 25, 2009

The Communities in Schools of the Heart of Texas program in Waco has been awarded a $500,000 competitive grant from the Department of Justice to provide adult mentoring to at-risk juveniles.
Here’s part of the release from Congressman Chet Edwards’ office announcing the grant:

United States Representative Chet Edwards announced that Communities in Schools of the Heart of Texas in Waco has been awarded a $500,000 competitive grant from the Department of Justice (DOJ) authorized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). This stimulus grant will allow Communities in Schools of the Heart of Texas to provide one-on-one adult mentoring to at risk juveniles ages 10 to 17.

Jul 23, 2009

KBTX: Edwards Secures Funding for National Defense Programs at A&M

Reporter: Josh Taylor |

(WASHINGTON) – A spokesperson for U.S. Representative Chet Edwards office says the Congressman has secured funding for national defense research at Texas A&M University under the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill, passed by the House Appropriations Committee this week.

“I am very pleased that the defense bill includes my request for key defense research projects at Texas A&M. These defense projects are part of a long-term plan to enhance and strengthen Texas A&M’s historic partnership with the Department of Defense,” said Edwards, a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee. “These priority programs will strengthen our nation’s defense, and support jobs and economic growth in the Brazos Valley.”

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East side library opens

Cleburne Times-Review

By Matt Smith

The dream of one East Cleburne Community Center volunteer came to fruition Wednesday with the official opening of the East Cleburne Community Center Walter G. Mize Library, located in the former Santa Fe Elementary building.