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News & Events
May 14, 2008 FMCCS proudly presents "Educating Young Adolescents: Middle Level Education" On June 2, 2008, please join us at 7:00pm in the Bloomington High School North library to learn more about the academic needs of middle level students and how schools should be designed to meet their unique needs. This event, like others in the Foundation's ongoing series of Community Conversations, offers our community the opportunity to participate in discussions about the future of public education in the 21st century. For more information, please click here.
May 7, 2008
Duke Energy Donates $25,000 for Bloomington New Technology High School
The Duke Energy Foundation has awarded the Foundation of Monroe County Community Schools $25,000 to support Bloomington New Technology High School. This gift will be used to help purchase the New Technology Learning System, to provide Professional Development for teachers, and to secure the first complement of 400 computers for the school. Duke representative Steve Bahr presented a check to Alan Veach, New Tech principal, at the May 7th MCCSC School Board meeting.
To read the full press release, click here.
February 5, 2008
Be Cool, Stay in School Drawing will be held on Friday, May 23rd!
On Friday, May 23rd, all MCCSC seniors with perfect attendance will be entered into a drawing to win a new Pontiac G5 from Curry Buick! The event will be held at 5pm at Curry Buick. Students must be present in order to win, so mark your calendars!
January 28, 2008
New Tech High School gets a home of its own! Click here for the full article.
August 31, 2007
The Foundation of Monroe County Community Schools partners with DonorsChoose to Offer Teachers Another Funding Option for Classroom Needs and Field Trips
This school year the Foundation of Monroe County Community Schools (FMCCS) will award more than $58,000 to MCCSC educators through five grant programs designed to support student learning throughout the corporation. These grant funds will be available to support school and classroom projects, to increase student physical fitness and health, for professional development for educators, and to improve elementary school libraries.
Despite these funding opportunities, many educators will still find it necessary to either fund learning through out of pocket spending or forgo opportunities for their students. To provide teachers and other front-line educators with another option, the Foundation is partnering with DonorsChoose, a web-based program that provides a simple way to fulfill needs in the classroom and foster innovation in our public schools. Teachers post projects online and donors choose what they'd like to fund.
To introduce MCCSC educators to DonorsChoose, the Foundation of MCCSC has established a challenge program with DonorsChoose. FMCCS will provide the first $250 in funding for the first project submitted to DonorsChoose by any educator from each of MCCSC's 22 school locations.
To read the full press release, click here.
August 31, 2007
Fitness Trail Opens at Lakeview Elementary
For the third August in a row, a new fitness trail has opened at an MCCSC school. This year the students at Lakeview Elementary christened their new school shoes on the 1/4 mile fitness trail installed this summer. The MCCSC trail program is made possible through a joint funding initiative between the Foundation of Monroe County Community Schools, MCCSC, the IU School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, and The President's Challenge. The fitness trail will be used at Lakeview to support curricular instruction in health, wellness, and physical fitness. Don't tell the kids, though. They believe it's just another option for recess and after school fun!
August 16, 2007
The Foundation of Monroe County Community Schools Kicks off $400,000 Campaign to Support Funding of Bloomington New Tech High School
The Foundation of Monroe County Community Schools (FMCCS) kicks off a campaign today to raise $400,000 to support the initial implementation costs for Bloomington New Tech High School. Donations will be sought to help fund one time costs to purchase lifetime licenses for the New Technology Learning System, for training of the New Tech teachers and principal, and for the initial complement of computers needed over the first four years of the school's operation. The dollars raised by FMCCS will complement those already committed for start up costs by the MCCSC, the National Governor's Association and other state granting agencies totaling $300,000. Donations can be made to the Foundation of Monroe County Community Schools at 315 North Drive, Bloomington, Indiana, 47401. For more information contact Executive Director, Tina Peterson at 812.330.7700.
To read the full press release, click here.
August 16, 2007
Cook Group Incorporated Awards $150,000 in Matching Grant Dollars to Support School Innovation and Transformation Efforts in MCCSC; Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County Leads Matching Effort with a Grant of $35,000 for Bloomington New Technology High School
Cook Group Incorporated will make a $150,000 grant to the Foundation of Monroe County Community Schools to enable implementation of innovative, transformational school redesign efforts within the Monroe County Community School Corporation. A majority of these grant funds will be used to fund start up costs for a New Technology High School which will open in the Fall of 2008. A portion of the funds will be dedicated to supporting other transformational efforts that are in various stages of implementation within the school corporation. Recognizing the necessity to create strong community partnerships to support successful innovation in our local schools, Cook has established this grant opportunity as a matching fund initiative.
The Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County supports school transformation as well and recently committed $35,000 in start up funding for the Bloomington New Tech High School. "Our Board of Directors believes that the transformation of our public schools to serve 21st century needs is an important community priority with long-term ramifications. Supporting the first new educational model to be implemented in Monroe County is a natural for the Community Foundation," states Angela Parker, Board Chair.
To read the full press release, click here.
August 16, 2007
Cook Group Awards Major Financial Grant To Support Innovation In MCCSC: $150K goes to Foundation to help create New Tech High School
Cook Group Incorporated will make a $150,000 grant this year to assist the Monroe County Community School Corporation (MCCSC) embark on an innovative restructuring effort aimed at improving the quality of education for all students, the company announced today. The majority of the grant, which includes significant matching funds to encourage similar donations from other community organizations, institutions and individuals, will go to assist MCCSC to implement its "New Tech High School" model, explained Cook Group President Kem Hawkins.
The grant to the Foundation of Monroe County Community Schools will significantly bolster the foundation's funding capacity, making it one of the state's best K-12 school foundations. The resources of the Foundation of Monroe County Community Schools and other public secondary school foundations, however, pale in comparison to the annual voluntary support for institutions of higher learning such as Indiana University, which has annual support of over $300 million, and an endowment of over $1.2 billion, and out-of-state universities such as Harvard, Yale and Stanford that have endowments greater than $10 billion.
"That needs to change if we are to succeed in our critical mission of educating our young people," stressed Hawkins, who taught music at Bloomington High School before joining the Cook organization more than 25 years ago. "Based on the state funding formula, MCCSC is ranked in the bottom segment of the 290+ school systems in the state. While it would be great if the funding formula could be improved through the General Assembly to more appropriately fund the needs of this and other school systems, we can't wait around for the state or federal governments to solve our problems or create our opportunities! We must come together as a community to make this happen."
To read the full press release, click here.
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