This director of a program that helps immigrants who have children in the school system has won an award in the program's first year. It must be quite a program! - - Donna Poisl
By MIKE ISAACS misaacs@pioneerlocal.com
Corrie Wallace this week begins her second year overseeing the Niles Township English Language Learner Parent Center, which provides services for newly-arrived immigrants with school children in the township.
Wallace's innovative and hard work during the Center's inaugural year was recently recognized as she was named the winner of the prestigious 2009 Horace Mann Friend of Education Award by the Illinois Principals Association. The nominations come from principals from across the state, and the winner is selected by a committee of IPA past presidents.
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