November 8, 2004

 

 

 

Dear Reviewers:

 

I am the Executive Director of the City Heights Educational Collaborative.  The Collaborative provides, under contract with the School Board of the San Diego Unified School District, responsibility for the programmatic operation and management of three City Heights' schools.  The schools are among the most culturally and linguistically diverse schools in the nation.  They serve 5,300 students in total and have a Free and Reduced-lunch rate of 99%.  As the Collaborative Director, I serve as the supervisor of three school principals. 

 

I want this letter to communicate my interest in the Collaborative being a site partner in the EPIC proposal.  We have a Community Technology Center and an Academy of Informational Technology connected with our Collaborative.  Our teachers and students would be excited to participate in the proto-type workshops for 30 visualizations of math and science concepts.  I want to assure the reviewers that we have the capacity and interest to partner in this effort and to extend the software tools that will be designed to a large community and K-12 audience.

 

I urge you to consider this proposal carefully.  We hope we have the opportunity to establish this partnership and program.  Good luck in your deliberations.

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

Ian Pumpian

Executive Director

 

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