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Board accepts MEF grants including $50,000 donor gift to create Artisan Academy; consent agenda items approved
Summary
The Morris School District board approved consent-agenda motions including acceptance of Morris Educational Foundation grants — an $8,000 third-grade writing workshop, $3,200 high-school script-writing program, $3,600 FMS tutoring grant and a donor-designated $50,000 (split over two years) to launch a high-school Artisan Academy aimed to begin in September 2026 — along with routine minutes, policy, personnel and business items.
The Morris School District board approved a slate of consent-agenda items that included accepting multiple Morris Educational Foundation (MEF) grants and donor-designated support for school programs.
Vice President Linda Murphy presented educational matters and thanked MEF and donors. The grants described in the meeting were: an $8,000 award to fund a third-grade "intermediate unit writer circle" workshop to give all third graders a shared writing experience; a $3,200 grant to support an advanced creative…
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