College Station Education Foundation Awards $64,000 In Grant Money To CSISD Campuses

By: Clay Falls - Email

Updated: Wed 2:05 PM, Apr 18, 2012

It's was a time of marching at College Station schools Wednesday morning.

The College Station Education Foundation made a surprise visit to ten schools Wednesday complete with a marching band and cheerleaders.

The foundation handed out more than $64,000 in grant money including money for 10 iPads for classes at South Knoll Elementary.

The grant money comes from private donors, businesses and even from school district staff members voluntarily taking deductions from their paychecks.

"But the real wonder is to watch the teachers' eyes. I don't know if you watched when we marched up and down the kids were fantastic but the teachers are very happy. They've been hearing through the Legislature what we have to do. We need to do more and we're gonna have less and that's tough because they do see the young people. They do see the need," said Cal McNeill, President of the College Station Education Foundation.

The last check presented at South Knoll Elementary marked $500,000 total grant money given throughout the district in the last ten years.

Teacher Finds $20,000, Returns Cash to Bank

We ask that the following Community Standards be followed:

Comments must not be profane or vulgar.

Comments must not use hate speech, racial slurs, or violent descriptions.

We encourage varying views to be shared. We do ask commenters to not personally attack other readers, groups, people featured in our stories, or other posters for disagreeing with their views.

Comments must not contain negative, comparative debates between community standards of cities or towns.

Comments must contribute to the discussion, flaming and/or trolling will not be tolerated.

Comments must be truthful and not intentionally falsified. Providing a source link is encouraged.

If you find that a comment violates the above rules, please use the flagging option located to the right of the comment to notify the moderators.
For a complete list of guidelines, please follow this link:
http://www.kbtx.com/home/misc/Online-Commenting-Policy-181579421.html