The Council of the Great City Schools, ARAMARK Education, and Voyager
Expanded Learning Present National Award to Dr. Elizabeth Reilinger
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The Council of the Great City
Schools (CGCS), ARAMARK Education, and Voyager Expanded Learning are
pleased to announce that Elizabeth Reilinger, Ph.D., chairperson of the
Boston School Committee, is the recipient of the 2007 Richard R. Green
Award, the nation's highest honor for urban education leadership. Dr.
Reilinger, one of six nominees, received the award at the 51st Annual Fall
Conference of CGCS in Nashville, Tennessee (October 31 - November 4, 2007).
Dr. Reilinger received the Green Award from the Council of the Great
City Schools, a coalition of the nation's largest urban public school
systems; ARAMARK Education, a professional services company that provides
complete range of food, facility, uniform services; and Voyager Expanded
Learning, a company that provides reading and math programs. Dr. Reilinger
was presented with a $10,000 college scholarship to present to a high
school senior of her choice in the Boston Public Schools or from her high
school alma mater.
Dr. Reilinger was first appointed to the school committee in 1994, and
she has been elected chairperson of the Boston School Committee every year
since 1998. Her leadership for the Boston schools and children has helped
in the reform and improvement of the school district.
"ARAMARK is proud and honored to continue our support of the Richard R.
Green Award and the Council of the Great City Schools," said Dennis Maple,
President, ARAMARK Education. "We congratulate Dr. Reilinger and all of the
nominees for their dedication and commitment to our youth and for the great
strides they continue to make in education."
"Voyager Expanded Learning is thrilled to partner with ARAMARK and the
Council of Great City Schools in recognizing Dr. Reilinger and all the
committed and extraordinary leaders of America's urban schools," said
Carolyn Getridge, Senior Vice President of Urban Initiatives for Voyager.
The Richard R. Green Award in Urban Excellence is bestowed upon a past
or present member district superintendent or Board of Education member in
recognition of exceptional contributions to urban schools and students.
Considered the nation's highest urban education honor, the award pays
tribute to the memory of Richard R. Green, former Minneapolis and New York
City Public Schools superintendent, who won distinction as an outstanding
educator and leader.
About the Council of the Great City Schools
The Council of the Great City Schools is a coalition of 66 of the
nation's largest urban public school systems. Founded in 1956 and
incorporated in 1961, the Council is located in Washington D.C., where it
works to promote urban education through legislation, research, media
relations, instruction, management, technology, and other special projects.
School districts are eligible for membership in the Council of the Great
City Schools if they are located in cities with populations over 250,000
and student enrollments over 35,000. School districts with general urban
characteristics located in the largest city of any state are also eligible
for membership regardless of size.
About ARAMARK Education
ARAMARK Education provides a complete range of food, facility, uniform
and other support services to more than 500 K-12 school districts in the
U.S. It offers public and private education institutions a family of dining
and facility services including: on-site and off-site breakfast and lunch
meal programs, after-school snacks, catering, nutrition education, retail
design and operations, maintenance, custodial, grounds, energy management,
construction management, and building commissioning. For more information
on ARAMARK's K-12 food service programs, please visit
http://www.aramarkschools.com.
About Voyager Expanded Learning
Voyager Expanded Learning provides core, intervention and supplemental
reading programs, as well as math intervention and ongoing professional
development programs, for school districts throughout the United States.
Founded in 1994, Voyager has delivered extended-time reading and basic
skills intervention programs, as well as large-scale reading programs, to
more than 900 school districts in cities such as Dallas, Phoenix, New York
and Los Angeles, resulting in dramatically improved student performance.
Voyager Expanded Learning, L.P. is based in Dallas, Texas and is a business
unit of Voyager Learning Company (OTC: VLCY.PK). For more information,
please visit http://www.voyagerlearning.com or call 1-888-399-1995.
SOURCE Voyager Learning Company
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CONTACT:
David Gargione of ARAMARK Education,
+1-215-238-3559, gargione-david@aramark.com; or Shannan Overbeck
of Voyager Expanded Learning, 1-888-399-1995 x9476,
soverbeck@voyagerlearning.com
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