Education

State-of-the-Region: Performance Indicators for the Buffalo-Niagara Region In the 21st Century
EDUCATION

Link	Description
Buffalo Alliance for Education Patricia C. Cowdery, LB '00 Executive Director
	"...our mission is to enrich the lives of the individuals of Erie County's diverse communities by creating and sustaining superior public library services through responsive staff, dynamic collections, appropriate technology and access to global information..."
Buffalo Systemwide Project	"...promoting effective education for linguistically diverse students in the Buffalo city school district ..."
Computers for Children Brenda W. McDuffie, LB '94 Board Member	"...finds new life for donated computers by performing upgrades and placing them in schools, increasing students’ access to current technology..."
	"...a group of our nation's leading business, government and education organizations dedicated to creating awareness of the urgency of the need for education reform and to encouraging Americans to take action in their states and communities to improve education..."
Frontier Central Special Education PTA Max Donatelli, LB '00 Co-President	"...our SEPTA wants to help you answer questions and gain knowledge about your child's disability, special education services/programs, state regulations, and federal laws. We are located in the Town of Hamburg..."
Niagara Frontier Industry Education Council Kathleen Knauth, LB '00 Executive Director	"The Niagara Frontier Industry Education Council is a regional based umbrella organization in Western New York developed to provide a forum for business and industry to join with education, labor, and government to ensure a better educated and more productive workforce for the future..."
Parenting, Common Sense Parent Network of WNY Max Donatelli, LB '00 Parent Soup	"...youth is a time of dreams, of high aspirations and enthusiasm. Criticism, neglect, and indifference have a withering effect on the spirit of the growing boy or girl. They take out of them the zest of life which God put under their ribs..." Parent Network of WNY Mission: “Parents Supporting Parents and Professionals to Enable Individuals With Disabilities To Seek Their Own Potential” "...for the most important job you'll ever have..."
	"...an independent, nonprofit consortium of all types of public, school, academic and specialized libraries in the six counties of Western New York..."
	"...a regional public education service organization...provides informational and technological services to support instructional and administrative functions...goal is to maximize the quality of instruction and to improve learning; efficiency and effectiveness of educational institutions; and to enhance the decision making process..."