Graduation Matters Missoula Celebrates Its First Year, 1/19, Missoula, Montana

It wasn’t long after Graduation Matters was launched that it had to change its name.

The Missoula County Public Schools initiative was quickly co-opted by the state Office of Public Instruction as Graduation Matters Montana, so convinced was state school Superintendent Denise Juneau of its promise.

Renamed as Graduation Matters Missoula http://graduationmattersmissoula.com/ , the program – an initiative spearheaded by MCPS Superintendent Alex Apostle – will celebrate its one-year anniversary Wednesday with a community confab at the Missoula Children’s Theatre Center for the Performing Arts.

Scheduled to speak from 10 to 11 a.m. are Apostle, Juneau and Roberta Evans, dean of the Phyllis J. Washington College of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Montana. The public is invited.

By JAMIE KELLY of the Missoulian missoulian.com

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