DEPARTMENT
OF EDUCATION
P.O.
PRINS. MEMO NO. 13
June 26, 2007
ELEMENTARY/MIDDLE/SECONDARY
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TO: |
Principals |
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FROM: |
Linda M. Wallinger Assistant Superintendent for Instruction |
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SUBJECT: |
The 2007 Richard Riley Award Submission Deadline |
The American Architectural
Foundation, in partnership with KnowledgeWorks
Foundation, invites you to enter a submission for the Richard Riley Award. If
your school is a center of community that demonstrates innovative design ideas
and helps promote student achievement, your school could win a $10,000 prize.
Online
submissions for the 2007 Richard Riley Award will be accepted until July 9. The
winning public school will receive a $10,000 prize and be invited to
To
date, 75 elementary and secondary schools have applied from over 25 states. All
public schools, new and old, including charter schools, are eligible to submit
entries for the award until July 9.
Visit
www.richardrileyaward.org
to register your school to win. The American Architectural Foundation
and the KnowledgeWorks Foundation are looking for the
school that best exemplifies the growing trend to build and design schools as
centers of community.
For
questions about the contest, please contact Joyce Tsepas,
program assistant for the American Architectural Foundation, at (202)626-7318
or by e-mail: jtsepas@archfoundation.org
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