Montana Education Excellence

Superintendent Alvin Buerkle says, "We know they do a great job- but not everybody pays attention to AP test scores and so this was sort of a way to just recognize that. We do have a high percentage of kids who get that three, four, and five on those tests- and so that’s a recognition of the work they do."

Novotny also tells us that on average 60% of their AP students are female.

Once a child has chosen a Montana campus to attend, that campus will work closely with the student and his or her family to assure college costs will be met.

Such comparisons between the University of Montana and Montana State University can be drawn from reports on athletics, research and diversity being presented this week to the Montana Board of Regents.

“There has been a 25-year history of climate denial,” said panelist Frank Allen, president of the Missoula-based Institutes for Journalism & Natural Resources and former environment editor for The Wall Street Journal.

Here’s the $75,000 question: If UM can’t get donors to cough up the cash, does Elton John still play? Because if this show gets canceled, the ensuing uproar will make last September’s ticket fiasco seem like a toddler’s tantrum.

Now The University of Montana offers a new tool to help teachers and administrators enhance their Indian-based curriculum. It’s an online graduate course called Indian Education Leadership Training.

The fact that bacteria could cause snow and rain was discovered almost by accident in the 1970s by study co-author David Sands, a Montana State University plant pathologist, during his research on Pseudomonas syringae, a microbe that causes ice to form on leaves.

Democrats have chosen to do something else that’s self-serving and misleading: blame Montana Republicans for their own inaction.

The regents will talk about long-range building priorities for the entire Montana University System, which the board is now discussing for the 2011 biennium. Number one on the 17-item list of priorities is a new $32.5 million College of Technology building on UM’s South Campus, followed by a $5 million agriculture research training lab at MSU, and a new $12 million science building for MSU-Billings.

Montana’s Congressman, Denny Rehberg, on Tuesday blasted Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spelling over funding levels in the president’s budget for rural education programs during a House Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee hearing.