Whitfield schools facing $7 million shortfall
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He also volunteers as a counselor at a summer camp for children with diabetes, teaching them how to stay healthy and building their self-esteem. When Kenneth told his second-grade classmates that he had juvenile diabetes, "I became alienated and
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On top of that, health insurance costs for teachers could cost an extra $800000, and insurance premiums for the district's 500 classified employees, such as bus drivers and cafeteria workers, is expected to cost nearly $1 million more than this year.
The Virginia Retirement System provides benefits for state employees, teachers and school administration employees. Prior to 1983, state employees and teachers contributed 5 percent of their pay toward their retirement funds.
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Prestige for the community aside, perhaps the biggest advantage of locating a Mercer University School of Medicine satellite campus in Columbus is the five-star physician “recruits” it might attract.
That was one of the most descriptive analogies offered up Friday as Macon, Ga.-based Mercer made it official at the Columbus Public Library news conference that it is partnering with The Medical Center and St. Francis Hospital on a two-year doctor training program after 18 months of discussions and logistical planning.
St. Francis President and Chief Executive Officer Robert Granger pointed out college football is king in the South and that everyone understands how difficult it is to recruit the elite players to universities such as Auburn, Alabama and elsewhere.
-- About Mercer Founded in 1833, Mercer University is a comprehensive center of undergraduate, graduate and professional education. The University enrolls more than 8,300 students in 11 schools and colleges — liberal arts, law, pharmacy, medicine, business, engineering, education, theology, music, nursing and continuing and professional studies — on major campuses in Macon, Atlanta and Savannah and at four regional academic centers across the state. Mercer is affiliated with two teaching hospitals. — Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah and the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, and has educational partnerships with Warner Robins Air Logistics Center in Warner Robins and Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta. The University operates an academic press and a performing arts center in Macon and an engineering research center in Warner Robins. Mercer is the only private university in Georgia to field an NCAA Division I athletic program.