SR2S In the News
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New Resource Available!
Michigan Trails and Greenways
Alliance (MTGA) and Michigan
State University have teamed up
to map the proximity of
Michigan’s elementary and middle
schools to the state's trails.
If a trail is aligned
between the school and the
neighborhood where a student
lives, a trail may only need a
short connector in order to
become a prime “safe route to
school.”
Click here to view a
sample map and visit the
MTGA website for maps of all
83 Michigan counties.
Thanks to MTGA and MSU for this
great resource! |
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Erickson Elementary School in
Ypsilanti is a National Center for Safe
Routes to School Mini-Grant Recipient!
Erickson will receive up to $1,000 for
local projects that encourage student
creativity in SR2S activities in the
spring 2010 semester.
Read the full press release here.
Congratulations to Erickson!
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Congratulations to
Ben W. Murch Elementary School in
Washington, D.C., the recipient of the
2009 James L. Oberstar Award.
The Oberstar Award is
given annually by the National Center
for Safe Routes to School to an
exemplary SR2S program in the United
States.
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Williams Elementary School's
(Flint) Walk to School Day event was
featured on
WNEM-TV 5.
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The Safe Routes to School National
Partnership has launched new
Facebook and
Twitter pages!
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Dr. Christine Vogt (Michigan State
University) and Dr. Ariel Rodríguez
(Arizona State University) co-authored
an article titled Demographic,
Environmental, Access, and Attitude
Factors That Influence Walking to School
by Elementary School-Aged Children.
The article is based on research from
Michigan's Safe Routes to School program
and appears in the June 2009 issue of
the
Journal of School Health. Click on
the Journal link to read the abstract.
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Congratulations to SR2S Action Plans
Project Mini-Grant Recipients
The Michigan Fitness Foundation is
pleased to announce that 30 schools
will each receive mini-grants to
enable and encourage their students
to safely walk or bicycle to school.
The grants are part of the
Foundation’s Safe Routes to
School Action Plans Project,
part of the broader Safe Routes to
School (SR2S) movement to make
nonmotorized travel to and from
school a safer and more appealing
option for students.
The
grant
recipients are:
Hillside Learning & Behavior
Center-West (Allegan); Dailey
Elementary School and Tucker
Elementary School (Beecher); Hornung
Elementary School (Brighton);
Carrollton Elementary/Middle School
(Carrollton); Carter Middle School
(Clio); Maples Elementary School
(Dearborn); Bennett Elementary
School, Burns Elementary School,
Clara W. Rutherford Academy, Glazer
Elementary School, and Pulaski
Elementary School (Detroit);
Creekside Intermediate School and
Mill Creek Middle School (Dexter);
Douglas Elementary School (Douglas);
Wacousta Elementary School (Eagle);
Beechview Elementary School and East
Middle School (Farmington Hills);
Harbor Springs Middle School and
Shay Elementary School (Harbor
Springs); North Central Elementary
School (Hermansville); Hillman
Elementary School (Hillman); Martin
Luther King, Jr. Elementary School
(Muskegon Heights); Otsego Middle
School and Dix Street Elementary
School (Otsego); Country Elementary
School (Pinckney); Loomis Math,
Science & Technology Academy and
Stone Elementary School (Saginaw);
Saugatuck Middle School (Saugatuck);
Thomas Read Elementary School
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Good Morning America recently
featured an interesting segment on how
physical activity in school can increase
student achievement.
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An article about
Ellen Grace Loftis
Elementary School's (Muskegon
Heights) SR2S program
appeared in the April 1 issue of the
Muskegon Chronicle.
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Michigan's Safe Routes to School program
was featured in a four-part series
in Michigan Planner magazine, a
publication of the Michigan Association
of Planning.
Read
part one,
part two,
part three or
part four.
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Congratulations to
Bear
Creek Elementary School in Boulder,
Colorado, the recipient of the
2008 James L. Oberstar Award.
The Oberstar Award is
given annually by the National Center
for Safe Routes to School to an
exemplary SR2S program in the United
States. A
case study on Bear Creek Elementary
is also available on the National
Center's website.
Congratulations to the fall 2008 Safe
Routes to School funding award
recipients! Read about all 41 award
recipients
here.
Individual schools receiving much
deserved kudos for their hard work
include:
The
Muskegon Chronicle reported
on Ellen Grace Loftis
Elementary School's
(Muskegon Heights) Safe Routes
to School funding award.
Congratulations to Loftis!
Williams Elementary
School (Flint) and Grand Blanc East Middle
School (Grand Blanc) were
recently featured in stories
that ran on
WEYI Channel 25 and
WJRT Channel 12.
Congratulations to Williams
and Grand Blanc East!
The
Safe Routes to School program at
Herig Elementary
School (Saginaw) was
showcased in a story that
ran in the
Saginaw News.
Congratulations to Herig!
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Webster Elementary School and
Franklin Elementary School
(Escanaba) received some well-deserved
coverage of their Walk to School Day
events in
The Daily Press.
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Winans Elementary School (Lansing
Waverly Schools) was one of 11 schools
that participated in the Safe Routes to
School pilot project from 2003-2005. In
January 2008, the Winans SR2S team
received a Safe Routes to School funding
award. The success stories continue:
Winans' Walk to School Day event was
featured in a recent
Lansing State Journal article.
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Allendale Elementary School
(Melvindale) held a great Walk to School
Day event on October 3 that was featured
in a story that ran in the
News Herald. Others schools
mentioned in the article include Chapman Elementary School (Rockwood)
and Anderson Elementary School
(Trenton).
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George Long Elementary School's
(Grass Lake) Walk to School Day event
was showcased in a story that ran in the
Jackson Citizen-Patriot. George
Long Elementary school was among the
schools that received a Safe
Routes to School funding award in
January 2008.
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The Walk to School Day events at
Douglas Elementary School and Saugatuck Middle School (Saugatuck
Public Schools) were highlighted in a
story in the
Allegan County News.
A follow-up story appeared in the
Grand Rapids Press.
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An interesting article about the impact
of rising fuel costs on pupil
transportation recently appeared in
Newsweek.
Read "Waving Goodbye to the Bus" here.
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NBC News recently featured a story on a
successful walking school bus program in
New Jersey.
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Michigan's Safe Routes to School
program was featured in the May
2006 issue of
Parks & Recreation magazine.
Read the article
here.
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Michigan's Safe Routes to School
program was featured in the February
2006 issue of Planning & Zoning
News.
Read the article
here.
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Mike Eberlein,
former Safe Routes to School Coordinator
for the Michigan Department of
Transportation, discusses federal
funding for Safe Routes to School in
the
February 2006 issue of
Planning & Zoning
News.
Read the article here.
Safe Routes to School Newsletters
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Reader; download Acrobat Reader for free
here)
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