Professionally Edit the "The Education of Minnesota's Children with Disabilities Volume I: A History (1840-1960)"
To hire qualified professionals to edit a manuscript on the history of educating children with disabilities in Minnesota.
$6,451,000 the first year and $7,035,000 the second year are for statewide historic and cultural grants to local, county, regional, or other historical or cultural organizations or for activities to preserve significant historic and cultural resources. Money must be distributed through a competitive grant process. The Minnesota Historical Society must administer the money using established grant mechanisms with assistance from the advisory committee created under Laws 2009, chapter 172, article 4, section 2, subdivision 4, paragraph (b), item (ii).
Available upon request. Contact: grants@mnhs.org
Bids for an experienced/qualified author and editor were publicly requested, hired, and the project began as projected and approved. The professional editor completed a substantive review and made recommendations and were addressed by the author in a timely fashion. The Preface, Table of Contents, Body of the Manuscript by Decade, Footnotes, Bibliography, Data Tables/Charts and photographs, and Index were rewritten/reorganized and finalized within the grant's plan and timelines.
The rewriting respected the Minnesota Data Practices Act and the procedures used through the Minnesota History Library and similar repositories.
One glitch was resolved at the beginning as the editor and author used different versions of Microsoft Word which caused formatting and other editing/sharing problems. The author updated her Microsoft 360 version to include others and then both could share the same versions and changes electronically resolving the issue.
It is expected that the draft manuscript will be available through the MNSELF and the author for those who are interested in the information while it is being published (hopefully next year). The long term expected outcome and progress indicators continue to be a goal of this project.
Available upon request, grants@mnhs.org