Pennsylvania Department of Education Our Mission The mission of the Pennsylvania Department of Education is to assist the General Assembly, the Governor, the Secretary of Education and Pennsylvania educators in providing for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of education. The Department also cooperates with independent groups concerned with public education including the State Tax Equalization Board, State Public School Building Authority, Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, Pennsylvania Public School Employes Retirement Board and the Pennsylvania Public Television Network Commission.

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The Department of Environmental Protection's mission is to protect Pennsylvania's air, land and water from pollution and to provide for the health and safety of its citizens through a cleaner environment. We will work as partners with individuals, organizations, governments and businesses to prevent pollution and restore our natural resources.

Burnell Smith has vast instructional and management experience with facilitating criteria for improving business performance and competitiveness in the global marketplace. Mr. Smith has provided instruction to organizations of various sizes to foster continued growth and assess key opportunities for improvement of business goals.

The PA Department of Community and Economic Development helps communities, businesses and municipalities develop comprehensive approaches to economic development.

We've included a few key links below, which are quite relevant, including: 511 Information; Smart Transportation; The Transportation Committee Advisory Report; and Addressing the Transportation Funding Gap.

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Each project will be coordinated by Michael A. Sand, founder of SAND ASSOCIATES. Mr. Sand has had an extensive career that began in 1966 when he served as Program Planner for Philadelphia's anti-poverty program and then Assistant Director of Montgomery County's anti-poverty program. Before founding SAND ASSOCIATES in 1979, Mr. Sand served as Executive Director of the Community Action Association of Pennsylvania, Deputy Director of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Consumer Protection, and Administrator of the Law Bureau of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. Mr. Sand is the author of How to Manage an Effective Nonprofit Organization (Career Press, Franklin Lakes, NJ, 2005). He leads workshops throughout the United States in areas such as Strategic Planning, Grant Writing, Fundraising and Effective Supervision.

OUR APPROACH Experience, superior relationships, intelligence gathering, and quality research are the most significant source of our success and that of our clients. These four capabilities are the cornerstone of our strategic planning and process. They are the basis of our ability to manage desired outcomes, and we employ them to better understand our clients as well as the political and policy marketplace. Our process requires knowing more and using what we know better, and using this core to our advantage. There are four components to the Long Nyquist approach. Precision The culture of Long, Nyquist and Associates is built on absolute accuracy. We have trained our minds to be the devil's advocate - to be skeptical, until we can subject our intelligence gathering and research to a meticulous confirmation process and rigorous testing. Depth Built around decades of inside, high-level experience, our relationships are both state-wide and national. We rely on our knowledge of the l