NATIONAL YEAR OF PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION 1983-1984 - - -BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION

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• Publication Date: October 3, 1983
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
October 3, 1983
NATIONAL YEAR OF PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION 1983-1984
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
America's future is dependent upon the health and
vitality of her education system. Although thousands of
businesses, industries, individuals, organizations, teachers,
administrators, and government at all levels have been
involved in the education of our youth, there is more work to
be done. M-o-re people must become active in improving. the
quality of educa-t-lon in our Nation.
Recently, many schools have developed private sector
partnerships in an effort to broaden available resources and
reach out to their communities for support. The private
sector has much to offer the growing national movement to
improve our education system. Some of the most effective
methods include helping educators identify the learning needs
of our society; encouraging professional exchanges between
teachers, educators, and businesses; contributing expertise,
financial resources, and equipment; and providing technical
assistance in school administration and curriculum
development. In order to encourage this trend, I call upon
businesses, organizations, individuals, and agencies to become
involved with their local schools.
Partnerships in Education Year gives us the opportunity
to acknowledge the efforts of the private sector and to
encourage the creation of new partnerships in education all
across this Nation.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the
United States of America, do hereby proclaim the period from
October 1, 1983, through June 30, 1984, as the National Year
of Partnerships in Education. I invite all Americans to join
me in my commitment to the excellence and quality of education
offered to all Americans.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
third day of October
nineteen hundred and eighty-three, in the year of our Lord
the United States of America thetwonhundred eanddeightth. of
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of Private Sector Initiatives
For Immediate Release
October 13, 1983
The President launched the National Partnerships in Education
Program today in a White House ceremony, of business, schools, government and tradelassociationssintatives
attendance. He commended the positive role the businessn
community has taken in improving the quality of education in
local communities, and issued a challenge that everyone of our
country's public, private, and parochial schools and community
colleges -- all 110,000 of them -- will have formed partnerships
in education."
In addition to encouraging the private sector to participate in
this program to upgrade the quality of education, the President
directed the Federal Government to promote partnerships in
education in every way that it can. James K. Coyne, Special
Assistant to the President for Private Sector Initiatives and his
staff were directed to work on this program throughout the year..
In describing the Partnerships in Education program, the
President said, "Across the country, have been forming ro y, groups of working men and
partnerships with schools -- partnerships
in education. To form a partnershi
government a enc P. volunteers from a business,
9 y, or other organization strike an agreement with
a school to develop programs that will help the school's students
in a number of basic ways. The volunteers might tutor students,
establish scholarship funds, donate furniture and equipment, or
teach classes."
This program was transmitted by closed-circuit TV, through the
cooperation of WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C., to the students,
teachers, and parents of Congress Heights Elementary School. In
a surprise announcement, the President informed Bill Dalton,
Principal of the school, that the White House was forging a
partnership with Congress Heights. forging
By Presidential Proclamation, the 1983-84 school year has been
named "National Year of Partnerships in Education".
This program is another example of the President's continued
support for the private sector initiatives program and for the
high priority he has assigned to encouraging private sector
initiatives to solve social and economic problems throughout
America.
CONTACT: James K. Coyne, Special Assistant to the President
White House Office of Private Sector Initiatives
(202) 456-6676
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