CMS benefits from technology grants

The days of chalkboards in school classrooms are fast disappearing. What was once done with a piece of chalk is now done by touching an interactive whiteboard with your finger. It’s definitely not your grandmother’s one-room schoolhouse anymore.

CREF awards Council Rock teachers $20.7K in grants to pursue innovation and enhanced learning

COUNCIL ROCK - The Council Rock Education Foundation (CREF) awarded seven grants at Thursday night’s school board meeting totaling $20,772.28. The money is awarded to programs that support innovative initiatives and enhance learning within the district.

Teachers get results

In the two-year life of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund's $175,000-per-teacher science and math grants program, only 10 teachers have won the money.

Ill. names 37 districts to receive school grants

The Illinois State Board of Education is announcing 37 school districts will share in nearly $43 million in federal "Race to the Top" school improvement grants.

Grays Harbor Community Foundation awards $130,000 in Technology in the Classroom grants

Cheri Patterson, left, superintendent and prinicpal of Cosmopolis School, and Cassie Lentz, right, program officer for Grays Harbor Community Foundation, discuss with the school staff the award of $30,000 to the district, part of the Foundation’s Technology in the Classroom initiative.