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Links to Helpful Parent Websites
MichiganVotes.org
Gives users instant access to concise, plain language and objective descriptions of every single bill, amendment, and vote that takes place in the Michigan legislature.
The Michigan Department of Education
Michigan House of Representatives
Michigan State Senate
Encyclopedia Britannica
Featuring the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Web's best sites, magazines, and more.
Connect for Kids
Guidance for grown-ups. Some subjects broached: cooperation/conflict in the classroom, safe schools, tobacco industry's donation to children. Basically this site is for sharing ideas on how to advocate for children in education or otherwise.
Center for Education Reform - Parent Power!
Provided by the Center for Education Reform; serves parents and interested citizens, who believe that, with the right information and guidance, they have the power to make great improvements in their child's education.
Family Education
A site for parents dedicated to their child's learning.
Partnership for Learning
Seeking to equip families and communities to maximize learning starting at birth, Partnership for Learning works with media and corporate, government, foundation, school and community groups to conduct research, facilitate dialogue and equip people to make better informed education decisions.
Try Science
The first on-line worldwide science and technology center, created in a collaboration of the New York Hall of Science, IBM and the more than 450 member institutions of the Association of Science-technology Centers, offers access the science presented by museums around the world through interactive exhibits, multimedia adventures and live Web camera "field trips." Also provides hands-on science projects that children and their parents and teachers can do at home or in school.
Please email MAPSA at mapsa@charterschools.org if you have a suggestion for a link to add to the list.
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