Education Foundation Awards $38,000 to Pleasant Hill Schools

Ten Pleasant Hill schools have some extra resources on hand thanks to the Foundation for Pleasant Hill Education (FPHE), which awarded just short of $38,000 in grants last month to support programs and activities in local public schools.

The 37 grants funded supplies such as books, stage lighting, a sound system, "Nook" e-readers, television monitors, a video camera, gardening supplies, flash drives and musical instruments. Every school that requested a grant received one, FPHE says. 

Funding came from FPHE’s 2013 Annual Campaign and other fundraisers throughout the year, according to the foundation, which has awarded over $157,000 and 187 grants since 2009 to the public schools within the College Park High School feeder pattern.

The grants are awarded based on the number of students impacted and the contribution to language arts, math, science, or other key curriculum areas.

"FPHE thanks and applauds all 2013 donors and business partners for placing a high priority on local education and realizing that strong schools benefit the entire community," said the foundation in a a press release.

To donate to the Foundation for Pleasant Hill Education, visit FPHE.org.

2013 FPHE Grant Awards 

College Park High School: 

• WARD’S Ecosystem: Oil Spill Cleanup lab program (Environmental Science classes)
• Technology grant (Special Education Department)
• Stage/performance tools and supplies (Theater Arts Department) 

• Student Response System clickers (6th Grade) 
• Classroom sets of core literature: Boy of the Painted Cave and Rats of NIHM (6th Grade)
• Technology grant (Language Department)
• Stage lighting (School-wide use)
• Multi-Use Room sound system (School-wide use) 

• Density Inquiry set (Science Department)
• Classroom set of Almanacs (6th Grade)
• World religions program (6th Grade)
• Nook tablets (6th Grade)
• TV monitors for Raspberry Pi systems(Computer Science Department)
• Stage lighting (School-wide use)

• Video camera and accessories (Computer Technology Department)
• Class set of English-Spanish dictionaries
• Technology grant
• Classroom literature sets: My Brother Sam is Dead and Nothing But the Truth (8th Grade)  

• Want to Soar early readers and online program (Kindergarten)
• African Ngoma drum (Music Department) 

• A Place for Everyone classroom carpet (3rd Grade)
• Technology grant
• Water Water Everywhere ecology program (5th Grade) 

• Class sets of flash drives (5th Grade)
• USA Studies weekly history magazine (5th Grade) 

• SRA Reading Lab (1st Grade)
• Technology grant
• Fruit trees, wood, and gardening supplies (5th Grade) 

• Singapore math practice books (1st Grade)
• Scholastic News science and social studies weekly (1st Grade)
• Technology grant
• Music supplies and instruments (Music Department) 

• Being a Writer book sets (2nd Grade)
• Technology grantAssistive technology grant (Special Education Department)