{"id":1616,"date":"2011-11-06T10:43:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T15:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2011-11-06T10:43:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T15:43:38","slug":"ips-college-and-career-readiness-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/2011\/11\/06\/ips-college-and-career-readiness-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"IPS College and Career Readiness Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I remember when I was young, my parents never used the word “if” when they spoke of college.\u00a0 They always used the word “when.”\u00a0 This was curious because no one in my family had attended college until I went to Butler University.<\/p>\n

This year Indianapolis Public Schools has begun a College and Career Readiness initiative.\u00a0 As part of this initiative each school is working to help all children see their future as a high school graduate and college student.\u00a0 You may have noticed displays in the hallways of our school focused on college.\u00a0 Examples include the display in our front entry showing where the staff members at School 60 attended college.\u00a0 You may have also noticed that our hallways are labelled with college names and logos.\u00a0 Butler Way is of course in the area of the school where our classrooms are located.\u00a0 Further efforts include field trips to Butler University.\u00a0 Mrs. Bucher’s class has already visited Butler once on a trip to explore Clowes Hall.\u00a0 At some point this year each class will visit Butler.<\/p>\n

As parents there are many things you can do to prepare your child for college.\u00a0 Beginning a savings account while your child is young that can help pay for college is important.\u00a0 In fact, Indiana offers a tax credit to families that save for college using an Indiana 529 account.\u00a0 The tax credit is a 20% credit on funds invested up to a maximum credit of $1,000.00.\u00a0 Helping your child succeed in school by spending time with them on homework and volunteering at school can help your child prepare for college.\u00a0 But, one of the best things you can do to help your child prepare for college is what I was lucky enough to have parents do for me.\u00a0 When you speak of college, talk about “when” your child goes to college, not “if.”<\/p>\n

Ron Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I remember when I was young, my parents never used the word “if” when they spoke of college.\u00a0 They always used the word “when.”\u00a0 This was curious because no one in my family had attended college until I went to Butler University. This year Indianapolis Public Schools has begun a College and Career Readiness initiative.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}