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California State Library announces California Civil Liberties Public Education Program Grant Recipients
State Librarian of California Susan Hildreth has announced the 2007-2008 grant recipients for the California State Library's California Civil Liberties Public Education Program (CCLPEP). The announcement came following the CCLPEP advisory committee meeting in May.
CCLPEP received 66 grant proposals totaling almost $2.8 million, with $500,000 available for distribution. Thirty proposals were selected for grant awards. Winning grant projects include a study that will provide recommendations to the California Department of Education Curriculum Commission for their upcoming history-social science curriculum revision, as well as documentary films, an original musical recording, books and research, web sites, oral histories, art and photography exhibits, and a variety of educational projects.
CCLPEP is the outgrowth of the 1998 California Civil Liberties Public Education Act, an initiative Assembly Member Mike Honda sponsored. The purpose of the Act was to provide funding for public education activities and educational materials surrounding the internment of Japanese Americans and permanent resident aliens of Japanese ancestry, with the intent being to illuminate and create understanding of the causes and circumstances of the internment and similar events. Susan Hildreth said, "Each year's CCLPEP projects have fulfilled the original purpose of the Act very well, and the 2007-2008 projects add much to that body of work."
The FY 2007-2008 CCLPEP grantees and their projects are available online at http://cla-net.org/included/docs/2008GrantRecipients.pdf.
For more information about the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, please contact Linda Springer or Christopher Berger at (916) 653-5217 or cclpep@library.ca.gov.
Posted on June 23, 2008 1:56 PM | Permalink