PSS receives $250K to improve language curriculum (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

Hi Mary, hmm, I am not sure what Cambridge conference you speak of.  I'm
sure I may have posted something on this.  I do not keep a personal archive
of ILAT postings, too much info!

Anybody here wish to re-post the Cambridge conference info?  Thnx, Phil

Ps: KR s now on ILAT.



On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Mary Hermes <mhermes at d.umn.edu> wrote:

> Hi Phil,
>
> Do you know about the conference at Cambridge in March?
> I think I saw it on our list-serve, but may have trashed it.
> Can you send if you have it?
> Also, my partner, Kevin Roach --- you met at INFIELD--- just requested to
> be on the list serve,
> I could not remember how to tell him to sign up...
>
> miigwech
> Fong
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Mary Hermes, PhD
> Associate Professor of Education
> Eni-gikendaasoyang:  Center for Indigenous Language and Culture
> Revitalization
> University of Minnesota Duluth
> 715-462-4230
>
>
>
> On Aug 20, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote:
>
> > Saturday, August 21, 2010
> >
> > PSS receives $250K to improve language curriculum
> >
> > By Moneth Deposa
> > Reporter
> > Saipan
> >
> > The CNMI Public School System received a $250,000 grant yesterday so it
> could complete the Chamorro dictionary and to fund other needs of the PSS
> Chamorro Carolinian Language Heritage Studies program.
> >
> > U.S. Rep. Rep. Gregorio Sablan presented PSS officials with a giant
> replica of the check during yesterday's Board of Education meeting on
> Capital Hill.
> >
> > Sablan said PSS will use the funds for the publication of the revised
> Chamorro-English dictionary, which has been stalled for years due to funding
> woes.
> >
> > Access full article below:
> > http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=1&newsID=102355
>
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