School District Names Roselle to New Community Outreach Position : South Mountain News | Phoenix Arizona Local News | Phoenix Newspaper Joe Roselle to a new position on the district’s administrative staff to serve as a liaison for the community and to improve funding sources through grants, business partnerships and other opportunities.

Dr. The new position, director of community partners and grants, encompasses grant writing as well as building relations between the district and the community.

“We recognize that our community, our parents and our business leaders have a really valuable and important role to play in our school district,” Johnson said. “

For several years the amount of money Arizona spends per child on education has been dropping steadily, which puts Arizona at 48th nationwide in a 2013 ranking of per capita spending for education, according to numbers provided by the Census Bureau.

Laveen Elementary School District, like many others in the state and elsewhere, looks to other resources to supplement the meager state and federal dollars that comprise their budgets.

“There’s no question about it that schools in Arizona in general are perpetually short of resources and the financial revenues to meet the needs of the students,” Johnson said.

Itas planned as a high school with flexible courses and hours, blending technology into every facet of learning.

Such a program, unique in Maryland, is envisioned for Frederick High School. But Frederick County Public Schools is still waiting to see if it will receive a $10 million grant to fund the Linking Youth to New Experiences School, which would be housed at Frederick High.

Students who would attend Frederick High School could take advantage of LYNX, though they could also maintain a traditional high school schedule if they wished, school district spokesman Michael Doerrer said.

On Tuesday, Gov. What will happen if the district doesnat secure the grant is unclear, though Doerrer said Frederick County Public Schools Superintendent Terry Alban and Nancy Grasmick, a former Maryland state superintendent of schools, are committed to moving forward with the project regardless of the outcome of the grant competition.

The team focused on developing LYNX has been working to develop alternatives in case the districtas bid for the grant fails, including working closely with the business community, Doerrer said a not just in Frederick County, but around the state.

The next round of the grant application is due this month.

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American Shakespeare Center receives second NEA grant : Augusta Free Press

National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $82 million to fund local arts projects and partnerships in the NEA’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2016.

Included in this announcement is an Art Works award of $15,000 to the American Shakespeare Center to support the 2016/17 ASC on tour. The Art Works category supports the creation of work and presentation of both new and existing work, lifelong learning in the arts, and public engagement with the arts through 13 arts disciplines or fields.

“The arts are all around us, enhancing our lives in ways both subtle and obvious, expected and unexpected,” said NEA Chairman Jane Chu. “Supporting projects like the one from the American Shakespeare Center offers more opportunities to engage in the arts every day.”

“We are so thrilled in our second year of funding to receive increased support from this prestigious program,” said ASC Managing Director Amy Wratchford, “and we recognize that the NEA’s vital investment allows our nation’s arts community to thrive.”

The NEA award is specifically targeted to support the 2016/17 Hungry Hearts Tour, which will include three shows performed in repertory: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. For more information on projects included in the NEA grant announcement, go to arts.gov

The American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, VA, recovers the joys and accessibility of Shakespeare’s theatre, language, and humanity by exploring the English Renaissance stage and its practices through performance and education.

Last year, a grade-schooler in Lincoln collapsed at school and turned blue, the victim of an undiagnosed heart condition.

Staff from the schoolas health office performed CPR until an ambulance arrived, and the student recovered, said Marge Theel, supervisor of health services for Lincoln Public Schools.

But the incident jump-started the districtas desire to install automated external defibrillators in its 39 elementary schools.

Nine years ago, a consortium working to get the defibrillators in all public buildings raised $13,500 to put them in all the high schools and middle schools.

Tuesday’s board meeting also included testimony from 18 people — among more than 60 who support starting a dual language program at LPS.A

All but one of the 18 who spoke appealed to the board to start a pilot program at an elementary school, quoting statistics that show both English and Spanish-speaking students do better academically in dual language programs.

One person opposed the idea, saying English should be the primary language spoken in the United States.

Board President Kathy Danek said the issue would be referred to board committees to review.

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Students perform investigations in physics, engineering, biology, astronomy, chemistry and earth/space science.

Kathy Rice, Boyd County High, aUsing the Ultimate Speed Reader to Improve Student Performance.a

The Ultimate Speed Reader is software to improve reading speed and comprehension. The program is designed to help gifted and struggling readers increase speed and comprehension.

Robin Crum, Ramey-Estep High, aLet Everybody Hear.a

The grant will purchase wireless microphones to use during student performances of drama and music and students will learn how to use wireless sound technology.

Annie Johnson and Melissa Downey, all district grades five through 12, aSchoolhouse Rock Live!a musical.

Boyd County public school students in grades five through 12 will audition, rehearse and present the musical aSchoolhouse Rock Live! Once students learn how to play them, they will join the Boyd County High School band in a special districtwide performance to celebrate Music In Our Schools month in March.

Judi King, Catlettsburg Elementary, aSensory Processing Increases kNowledge a SPIN.a

Students with autism and other disorders have difficulty regulating their sensory input.

Showcase: Artwork of Brandywine Heights students Showcase: Artwork of Daniel Tetreault Showcase: Work of Adam Dautrich Jones Showcase: Work of Anna Laczkowski Holiday Lights in Berks 2015 Sketchbook Contest grades 6-8

Additionally, about 58A percentA of students qualify for free and reduced lunch in the district, and SKEF reportedA nearly 10,000 students receive their only meals of the day at school.

The $75,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation provides funding for SKEF to reach approximately 3,000 students in the Salem-Keizer School District with this programA at 13 schools this fall

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This is the third Walmart Foundation grant that SKEF has received since 2014, according to the release, all of which have supported healthy eating programs in Salem area schools.

Box Elder was one of three Montana schools selected for Appleas ConnectED Grant, receiving approximately $1.8 million in time and supplies, which included 460 iPad tablets for students as well as laptops for faculty and technological support and upgrades to the school.(Photo: TRIBUNE PHOTO/RION SANDERS)Buy Photo

The students and staff at Box Elder School know how to throw a party a and they threw a big one Tuesday morning.

Balloons, confetti, a DJ, bumping music, dancing with high-fives and cheers spread throughout a all with a big boost from Apple computers.

aHey fifth-graders, are you ready for some iPads?a

The DJas amplified voice boomed across the Box Elder gymnasium a followed by a roar of 40 excited 10-year-oldsa voices.

They were not about to be out-screamed by the second-graders, or the sixth-graders or the even the high school students.

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Confetti rains down on Box Elder School students as they pick up new iPads awarded to the school by Apple on Tuesday. aEvery aide gets an iPad 4.a

Total it up and the Box Elder School District has received more than 540 state-of-the-art tablet devices free of charge, plus storage and charging carts for every classroom, customized applications training for classroom faculty a and just as impressive, a complete structural reconfiguration of the schoolas wireless network to ensure that every classroom is fully Internet compatible.

Preparations for this weekas roll-out began in January, when Apple engineers began arriving to install the necessary infrastructure.

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Box Elder School students use their new iPads awarded to the school by Apple on Tuesday. Box Elder was one of three Montana schools selected by Apple, receiving approximately $1.8 million in time and supplies, which included 460 iPad tablets for students as well as laptops for faculty and technological support and upgrades to the school.

Shanika Leonard made the short walk from her table to the podium in Anniston Country Clubas banquet room on Tuesday night.

The teenager graduates from Anniston High School this year, a milestone on a path that her aunt said has been long and hard for one so young.

aJust the challenges, and the changes,a Leonardas aunt and guardian, Janice Tippins, said of her niece. decided within herself that sheas not going to go down the road that led her here.a

Abandoned as a baby by her teenage mother, another aunt raised the 17-year-old Anniston High School student, until the woman died when Leonard was 12.

She came to the country club to accept a scholarship for college, one of 10 local high school or college students to receive such from the Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama on Tuesday night. Heall begin in August.

aMy parents, theyare buying a house and stuff, so itall help them,a he said.

The foundation oversees scholarship funds set up by families and foundations in Calhoun County, often in memory of a loved one whoas passed away, said Susan Williamson.

Thatas the case for Williamson, who is vice president of advancement and communications for the foundation and also has a scholarship in memory of her daughter, Mary Katherine Williamson.

aTheyare continuing the legacy of a loved one or an institution that was very meaningful in their life,a Williamson said of the scholarship funds.

Her daughter was a veterinary technician at Animal Medical Center who planned to attend nursing school, but was killed in an accident on her familyas farm.

Williamsonas scholarship is available to students studying veterinary medicine, nursing, or emergency medicine, she said.

For her part, Leonard received $1,000 from the Dr.

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