Parents and Children Together (PACT) recently awarded Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL) a 5-year, $150,000 contract as the external evaluator for the Hawai‘i Parental Information and Resource Center (HPIRC).
The HPIRC will be implemented in 21 public schools across the state of Hawai‘i. The program will be implemented through five community-based nonprofit family centers that cooperate with PACT to implement the parent information centers on their islands.
The primary goals of the HPIRC are to increase parental involvement in their children’s education to improve student academic achievement and to strengthen partnerships among parents, teachers, principals, administrators, and other school personnel in meeting the educational needs of children.
As external evaluators, PREL’s Chuck Giuli and his team’s primary evaluation effort will focus on outcomes of target objectives of the program.
PREL is an independent, nonprofit 501 (c)(3) corporation that works in partnership with the Pacific educational community to provide quality programs and products developed to promote educational excellence, including professional development and educational materials. In addition, PREL administers the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Pacific, 1 of 10 Regional Educational Laboratories funded through the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. With a commitment to ensuring that all students have an equal opportunity to develop a strong academic foundation, regardless of circumstances or geographic location, PREL serves the U.S.-affiliated Pacific islands, including American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) (Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap), Guam, Hawai‘i, the Republic of Palau, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI).
For additional information about this media release or PREL and its work please contact Jackie Burniske, Executive Director, Center for Information, Communications, and Technology by telephone at (808) 441-1300 or by email at burniskj@prel.org.
(Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008)