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EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE
Blazes Path to Community Success
The Carrollton-Carroll County Education that believe we are a stronger community
Collaborative (CCEC) has become a model for when we work together. The support for the
community engagement and success. Launched Collaborative has been extraordinary, and it has
in 2015, the collaborative brings together resulted in the discovery of great opportunities
education institutions, municipalities, community for students within our community."
agencies and business leaders to find solutions
to community issues, with the goal of Carroll Representatives of CCEC have presented the
County’s students being enrolled, enlisted, or collaborative’s findings and successful outcomes
employed upon graduating high school. at prestigious conferences at Harvard University
and Johns Hopkins University and to public
Carroll County and its seven municipalities have a officials at the local, state and national levels.
long history of working cohesively together. The Collaborative’s model has been utilized by
the nearby communities of Coweta, Douglas,
“The education collaborative is an exemplar Haralson, and Heard counties.
for community action that exists to enhance
opportunities for students,” said Dr. Russell “We know the education collaborative model we
Crutchfield of the University of West Georgia. have developed together is a successful one, as
“The Collaborative is reinforced by a plethora evidenced by the additional regional models that
of engaged community partners, including the have been effective in Coweta, Douglas, Haralson,
leadership of the many involved organizations and Heard counties,” said Amanda Wright,
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