Montana Education/Business Partnerships

“After-School Kids Club Safari Program”
Hopes to Inspire Interest in Science & Media

Big Sky Economic Development encourages the School District No. 2 Administration, in partnership with its teachers, students, parents, and the business community to continue its work on a vision and strategy for a high quality K-12 education system and a sustainable, long-term financial model.

“It’s the facilities, infrastructure, the people, it’s the access to all of those that makes it spectacular,” she added. “And then to have it here in the Bitterroot, it’s like a cherry on top.”

Get the basics of running and managing a successful business by attending Building Bitterroot Business classes offered by the Ravalli County Economic Development Authority (RCEDA) http://www.rceda.org/ and the Bitterroot College Program of the University of Montana (BCP) http://www.umt.edu/bcp .

The grant is from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and will create the national Tribal Healthy Homes Assessment and Training Center at MSU.

Taxpayers whose income is $55,000 or less are eligible for the assistance.

History Day is a yearlong program to challenge middle and high school students to improve their analytical, research and communication skills.

"Inquiry-based learning" will be instituted in the school’s biology program, which encourages students to use critical thinking to guide research and learn how to solve real-world problems.

The high-school program, which will start in the fall, is aimed at giving students a core set of classes for career development in the agriculture industry. The Montana Farmers Union donated $13,500 to the program so a greenhouse can be purchased and used at C.M. Russell High School.

Montana business and labor leaders worry that there may not be enough skilled workers to staff big manufacturing plants and build large industrial projects when the economy recovers.