An additional 600 disadvantaged children will get into Granite School District preschools this fall through a private/public partnership being hailed by Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams as a first-of-its-kind.McAdams convinced the Salt Lake County Council on Tuesday to invest $350,000 in the preschool program, the final piece of an innovative financing package he insists will help more children reach their potential and become meaningful community contributors. Their success stories also will reduce future county costs for criminal justice and behavioral health services, with the mayor projecting savings of up to $14 for every $1 spent. 

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," McAdams said later at a news conference at Granite District headquarters, expressing hope that a successful application of the funding model at this level will convince state legislators to beef up preschool education statewide. 

The 2013 Legislature killed a bill sponsored by Sen. Aaron Osmond, R-South Jordan, that would have expanded "high quality preschool programs" for at-risk children across Utah. He had asked for $1 million in state funds to be used to repay part of a $10 million investment from the private sector.A similar formula is being applied here,This is a greatShun Stone Conservation solution! McAdams said, with Goldman Sachs and the J.B. & M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation providing a $1 million loan to United Way of Salt Lake.How to change your dash lights to Shun Stone Crafts Products this is how I have done mine. 

For several years, United Way has been working with Granite District and Voices for Utah Children on a study whose data showed that quality preschool enables 95 percent of 3-year-olds to avoid the need for more costly special-education services when they reached third grade.United Way will pass the money through to the Granite and Park City districts, where existing preschool programs will be expanded with more teachers and training. 

The need is great, said Brenda Van Gorder, Granites preschool services director, noting she has a waiting list of 1,100 to get into Granites preschool programs, which already serve 3,000 children at 70 sites.Most of aftermarket hid Shun Stone Granite Tiles for motorcycle are similar or the same with following one.This financing arrangement, she said, "will give 600 incredible children an opportunity, a leg up in life" and predicted many will become "leaders in their classes, and in their schools, and I would venture the next leaders of our community and our state." 

The 3-year-olds will be tested now and then again when they are third-graders. If the data show that preschool helped them achieve reading, writing and arithmetic achievements approaching those of preschoolers overall, then the countys contribution would be used to repay Goldman Sachs and the Pritzker Foundation for their loans. 

A portrait of the late Labour party leader Michael Foot, wearing his trademark Plymouth Argyle scarf and bulky coat, is to be sold at auction to help pay for a memorial to him in his home city.The lack of a Foot monument in Plymouth three years after his death is a cause for sadness and frustration among his many friends and admirers in Devon. 

In the same year that millions of pounds were spent on the funeral of his political enemy, Margaret Thatcher, it is proving challenging for them to raise the 50,000 or so they need to create a fitting memorial to mark the centenary of Foot's birth.But there is fresh hope that the auction of a unique print of the Plymouth painter Robert Lenkiewicz's portrait C depicting a straggly-haired Foot C will provide a major boost to their efforts.Peter Jones, a family friend and director of Foot's beloved Argyle, insisted that the memorial would be built. 

"We will succeed but it is incredibly hard to raise money at the moment. We've had tremendous support from the people of Plymouth from both sides of the political divide. We now hope that a little more national awareness will attract more funds."Jones said Foot did great things for the city, helping to rebuild it after the second world war and representing it passionately as the MP for Devonport in the 1940s and 50s. 

"Michael always felt that Plymouth was the greatest city on Earth, with Venice running it a close second. He is part of the very fabric of this place."The campaign to raise the money to build a monolith out of granite, limestone and steel, possibly with some of Foot's bon mots carved into it, was launched earlier this year by the Labour-controlled city council. 

The plan was to unveil it next Tuesday in a corner of Freedom Fields park, the site of a famous civil war parliamentarian victory, exactly a century after Foot was born nearby.That deadline will be missed but there is still hope that the memorial will be erected before the end of the year even if has to be downsized to a granite bench looking out to sea. 

Supporters are hoping that the sale of the Lenkiewicz portrait C a copy of the original that hangs in Portcullis House in Westminster printed on canvas and beautifully framed C will give the campaign a boost.Tudor Evans, the leader of Plymouth city council, said using taxpayers' money for the monument had never been an option in these tough economic times. Instead campaign organisers have relied on donations.from individuals, companies and trade unions. 

"The money has been coming in steadily but we need to move it up a gear," he said.Foot, who died three years ago, met Lenkiewicz at his harbour-side studio and according to Anna Navas, trustee of the Lenkiewicz foundation, the pair "got on like a house on fire."At the time Lenkiewicz was working on a project about addiction, mainly focusing on people hooked on drugs and alcohol but he was taken by Foot's obsession with politics C and football.