{"id":81640,"date":"2022-05-11T07:01:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T11:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=81640"},"modified":"2022-05-10T18:02:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T22:02:34","slug":"manatee-county-charter-school-launches-community-voices-this-month-and-invites-area-employers-to-participate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/manatee-county-charter-school-launches-community-voices-this-month-and-invites-area-employers-to-participate\/","title":{"rendered":"Manatee County Charter School Launches &#8216;Community Voices&#8217; This Month and Invites Area Employers to Participate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRADENTON, Fla., May 11, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Oasis Middle School announces today the launch of \u201cCommunity Voices,\u201d an exciting initiative designed to encourage area employers to come together, collaborate, and support each other.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/22-0511-s2p-oasis-middle-school-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Oasis Middle School\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/22-0511-s2p-oasis-middle-school-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/22-0511-s2p-oasis-middle-school-800x600-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/22-0511-s2p-oasis-middle-school-800x600-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Manatee County, whether a business or school, charity or church, non-profit or governmental entity, our missions differ yet our commitment to a strong, supportive, and welcoming community unites us,\u201d said Edna Bailey, Founder, Director, and Principal of Oasis Middle School.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith COVID creating isolation over the past few years, we launch \u2018Community Voices\u2019 to provide a forum for area leaders to come together periodically, build relationships, discuss common concerns, and determine how we can support and lift each other and our community up. With Oasis Middle School celebrating its 16th year in 2022 as a Manatee County charter school, we want to do our part to help lead the conversation,\u201d Bailey added.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cCommunity Voices\u201d kick-off get-together will occur on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, at Oasis Middle School, 6417 3rd Avenue West, Bradenton beginning at 5:30 p.m. with arrival, networking, and light refreshments. The program from 6-7 p.m. will include a discussion facilitated by Robert Kennedy, Oasis\u2019 Director of Operations, on the selected topic for this inaugural meeting \u201cWhat Ways Can We Work Together to Support Each Other and Our Community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brenda Critchfield, Founder and Director of Avenue941, also will present. Area employers who participate will contribute to identifying topics of interest for future programs.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and to RSVP (space limited to 50 attendees), please contact Robert Kennedy at kennedyr222@yahoo.com or (941) 749-1979.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Oasis Middle School:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since 2006, Oasis Middle School unwaveringly has committed to fostering academic excellence, promoting social awareness and involvement, and modeling positive character development through innovative and creative teaching strategies in a supportive and disciplined school setting. With small class sizes and a low student-teacher ratio, Oasis offers a learning environment for students for whom smaller versus larger school setting offer a more conducive learning environment.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oasismiddleschool.org\/\">http:\/\/www.oasismiddleschool.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRADENTON, Fla., May 11, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Oasis Middle School announces today the launch of &#8220;Community Voices,&#8221; an exciting initiative designed to encourage area employers to come together, collaborate, and support each other. The &#8220;Community Voices&#8221; kick-off get-together will occur on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, beginning at 5:30 p.m. with arrival, networking, and light refreshments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9319,"featured_media":81627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,14,197],"tags":[18150,18149,18060],"class_list":["post-81640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-news","category-florida-news","category-event-news","tag-florida-charter-school","tag-florida-schools","tag-manatee-county","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":3320,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}