{"id":68386,"date":"2015-09-30T14:25:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T18:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=68386"},"modified":"2020-10-17T12:47:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T16:47:56","slug":"ucf-honors-state-senator-for-championing-community-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-honors-state-senator-for-championing-community-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Honors State Senator for Championing Community Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

UCF’s Center for Community Schools and Child Welfare Innovation\u00a0recently\u00a0honored\u00a0Sen. David Simmons as a champion of community schools\u00a0for the state of Florida.<\/p>\n

Leaders from the center and\u00a0College of Health and Public Affairs recognized Simmons at\u00a0the Sept. 25 board meeting\u00a0of the\u00a0Children’s Home Society of Florida in Orlando. CHSF and UCF\u00a0partnered to help\u00a0establish Evans High School in\u00a0Pine Hills\u00a0as the first community school of its kind the state.<\/p>\n

Center Director David Bundy, former president of\u00a0CHSF,\u00a0thanked Simmons for his\u00a0support of proposals in 2014 and 2015\u00a0to establish the center and award the state’s\u00a0first\u00a0community-school planning grants. The Legislature\u00a0funded\u00a0both proposals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Simmons’ interest\u00a0in community schools grew\u00a0out of a\u00a02013 meeting with Bundy and college Dean Michael Frumkin.\u00a0After their meeting the senator\u00a0requested a\u00a0binder filled with\u00a0information about community schools to review.<\/p>\n

“The\u00a0community-school concept was very much in keeping with his educational philosophy,”\u00a0said Bundy. “He\u00a0liked that community schools are an efficient use of resources and\u00a0that\u00a0they bring people together and remove barriers to student success.”<\/p>\n

At the Sept. 25 meeting, Simmons\u00a0received a black and gold recognition plate from Marklyne Joachim, an Evans’ graduate who\u00a0benefitted from\u00a0the community school programs. She is now a sophomore at UCF.<\/p>\n

Simmons later wrote of his joy in working with the partners and appreciation of the recognition. He also made note of his pleasure in meeting Joachim.<\/p>\n

“Marklyne did such a great job sharing,”\u00a0he wrote.\u00a0“[It] made it\u00a0really special that she was there too.”<\/p>\n

In addition to being recognized by the center, Simmons was honored as Legislator of the Year by CHSF.<\/em><\/p>\n

PHOTO (Left to right) Rob Matschner (CHSF-CF Board), Tara Hormell (CHSF), Charles Cromer (CHSF Board), Amy Ellis (UCF), Michael Frumkin (UCF), David Simmons, Marklyne Joachim (UCF), David Bundy (UCF), Jarvis Wheeler (Evans) and Summer Pfeiffer (CHSF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UCF’s Center for Community Schools and Child Welfare Innovation\u00a0recently\u00a0honored\u00a0Sen. David Simmons as a champion of community schools\u00a0for the state of Florida. Leaders from the center and\u00a0College of Health and Public Affairs recognized Simmons at\u00a0the Sept. 25 board meeting\u00a0of the\u00a0Children’s Home Society of Florida in Orlando. 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