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Page County schools win about $180,000 in new grants for literacy, family engagement and school improvement
Summary
Superintendent and instructional staff announced roughly $180,000 in new grants from the Virginia Department of Education and other sources to support family engagement, literacy programs and school improvement activities at Luray Elementary, Springfield and Page Middle.
Page County School Division officials told the school board on Feb. 13 that the division secured several one-time grants totaling about $180,000 to support family engagement, literacy and school improvement work.
Doctor Huber, director of instruction, said the division received two microgrants of $5,000 each for Luray Elementary and Springfield to fund family-engagement events, and a $45,000 literacy grant split $30,000 for Page Middle and $15,000 for Luray Elementary. “This is specifically tied to the federal identification,” Huber said, describing the literacy funding for student-facing materials and professional development.
The largest award is a school improvement allocation totalling $125,000, split as $75,000 to one school and $50,000 to another, Huber said. He emphasized the funds are one-time and cannot be used for ongoing personnel costs; rather, the money is intended to support implementation of school improvement plans, curricular materials, extra professional time and targeted capacity building.
“DOE just mentioned you guys have been such great communicators throughout this process,” Huber told the board, summarizing the department’s feedback. Board members asked whether administrators wrote the grants; Huber said central staff consult with and write grants with input from school leaders.
Huber characterized the awards as additional, above-the-baseline funding that the division did not have at the start of the year. He said the combined amounts — microgrants, literacy grant and school-improvement funds — add up to approximately $180,000 coming into the division for one-time uses to support instruction and family engagement.
Board members expressed appreciation and praised staff for pursuing the awards. Huber and other leaders said details of program deployment remain to be developed and will be shared as plans are finalized.
