Montana Education Excellence

We are a private Not-for-profit company (501.c.3) providing after school supervised activities to help in the prevention and intervention in teen drug use, crime prevention, depression and teen suicide. We are educating our kids with team work, problem solving, and learning other skills which will help them mature into productive and self-confident additions to our community.

Big changes are on the way for the University of Montana campus if Gov. Brian Schweitzer has his way. He issued a decree in November saying all state agencies must reduce energy consumption by 20 percent in the next two years.

The benefits these students get from the Flagship Program seem to be working, because at-risk behavior has dropped in Missoula since the program started 12 years ago.

The UM Administration has expressed interest in expanding the sustainability program in the future. The President’s office and administration is willing to help fund the center.

For disabled students, broken elevators
mean they cannot attend class. Some
buildings are not accessible.

After reviewing various letters to the editor and articles in the news about funding for education, it has become clear that neither side of the aisle is focusing on the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for education.

The UM Bureau of Business and Economic Research provides information to public and private decision makers about the state’s business and economic climate through outlets such as the yearly Economic Outlook Seminar and the award-winning Montana Business Quarterly.

Let’s stop addressing education funding as a liability and start thinking of education funding as an investment in our children, our Montana families and our Montana businesses.

“The amount of support, ideas and conversation today has been truly been tremendous. It’s wonderful to see the level of interest from such a diverse group. We’ve talked about lots of wonderful things today. It’s been more than rewarding.”

Montana State University has achieved remarkable things in the last five years, and in the next five years it will strive to become even better and achieve national recognition, President Geoff Gamble said Thursday.