Jumpstart Program Receives $100,000

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Updated: 4:19 PM Nov 23, 2004 Jumpstart Program Receives $100,000 11/23/04 U-W Eau Claire jumpstart program receives one-hundred-thousand dollar grant. Posted: 4:19 PM Nov 23, 2004 Reporter: Shaun Verbout

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College students at U-W Eau Claire have been helping pre-school and headstart kids learn....and they're getting recognized by the state, to the sound of a grant adding up to $100,000.
Throughout the year college kids meet with pre-school and headstart kids, twice a week, in low-income neighborhoods.
The program is called the "Jumpstart Program", and it trains and supervises students at the college to work with early childhood programs.
During the 2002-03 school year, 40 university students provided 36 children individual classroom sessions. This year over fifty students are providing a lending hand to the program.