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Maury Alliance, Maury County Public Schools Announce Incentives for Students Attending Ready, Set, #BeAGoodStat

Maury County Public Schools students have two great incentives to attend this week’s education summit event. The Maury County Chamber and Economic Alliance announced today that students attending the upcoming Ready, Set, #BeAGoodStat: Lifelong Learning, Inside & Outside the Classroom on November 16 at 6 p.m. at Columbia State Community College’s Ledbetter Auditorium will receive free admission to one home …

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Tennessee Scholarship Program Provides Opportunity for Maury County Student

SPRING HILL, Tenn. – Nobody in Johnny Miranda’s family had ever attended college. But as he and his sister grew up in Maury County Public Schools, their parents were determined to help them reverse the trend. Johnny’s sister made the leap to higher education. And now, thanks to a boost from Tennessee Promise, a first-of-its-kind scholarship program available to Tennessee …

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Columbia State Named as One of Top 150 in the Country

(COLUMBIA, Tenn. – Feb. 5, 2016) – – – Highlighting the critical importance of improving student success in America’s community colleges, the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program recently named Columbia State Community College as one of the nation’s top 150 community colleges eligible to compete for the 2017 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence and $1 million dollars in prize …

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Columbia State and Maury County Public Schools enter partnership

By MIKE CHRISTEN mcchristen@c-dh.net Maury County’s fixtures of education joined forces Tuesday to bring greater opportunity to the county’s students after high school. In Columbia State’s Pryor Art Gallery, Maury County Director of Schools Dr. Chris Marczak and Columbia State Community College President Dr. Janet F. Smith cosigned multiple documents, entering the two institutions into a partnership program. The venture …