Grants

5/21/2012

The 10 National Honorees, who range in age from 12 to17, received $5,000 personal awards, engraved gold medallions, crystal trophies for their schools, and $5,000 grants from The Prudential Foundation for charities of their choice.

5/20/2012

The Peñasco Independent School District has announced the award of a $200,000 grant that will help the district prepare students for college and careers over the next three years.

5/9/2012

Learning Resources announces the sponsorship of a nationwide teacher grant hosted by the online community WeAreTeachers. How would you use portable interactive technology to create collaborative lessons? Apply by May 22.

5/2/2012

The federal government says a company that tutored struggling New York City students was caught cheating as it tried to score tens of millions of dollars in federal funding.

5/2/2012

The state Senate's Republican majority provided almost $10 million more in school aid Tuesday night, but only to school districts represented by Republican senators this election year.

4/30/2012

SangHee, an 11th grader from Winder-Barrow High School in Winder, Ga., has won the Winter Superhero competition and is the recipient of $500 and a SAMCAM 860 document camera for his school.

4/25/2012

Requests for discounts on certain communications services increased for the fourth straight year as schools and libraries across the nation requested more than $5 billion in E-rate funds for Funding Year 2012. 

4/23/2012

North Penn officials were applauded at a school board meeting Thursday after the announcement that the district had received a $1.17 million grant.

4/12/2012

Kyeana Hodge hated to read. And for the freshman at Fitzgerald High School in Warren, that meant hating school.

4/10/2012

School districts have until June 6 to apply for the first round of grants for long-term efficiency or cost-savings measures in management and operations, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday. 

4/5/2012

A troubled Iowa schools group lost more than $1 million in public funds on risky investments, wrongly claimed $500,000 in federal grant money and improperly allowed executives to keep computer equipment when they resigned, according to an audit report released Thursday.

4/5/2012

EPS, School Specialty’s Literacy and Intervention division, announced a new grant program designed to assist school districts in the development and improvement of RTI programs. 

4/5/2012

Through a new partnership with DonorsChoose.org, Skype will donate $250,000 to teachers requesting technology materials to enable Skype video calling in their classrooms.

4/4/2012

Miami-Dade County Public Schools will compete for the nation’s top urban education award — for the fifth time.

4/2/2012

The company most famous for those yellow No. 2 pencils announces a new loyalty program to put free school supplies into the hands of those who appreciate them most: students.

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