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Missoula Education Foundation highlights classroom grants, scholarships and student leadership
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The Missoula Education Foundation told trustees it has expanded staff and programs, reporting 36 active creative-classroom grants reaching over 6,400 students and announcing scholarship and grant deadlines in April. Student board members described gardens, playground projects and school billboards.
The Missoula Education Foundation outlined an expanding slate of programs to the Missoula County Public Schools Board of Trustees, saying its mission is "to invest in MCPS students and teachers so that all can succeed," Executive Director Shannon Rinker told the board.
Rinker said the foundation grew its executive director role from a half-time position to 0.75 full-time this year and described a slate of initiatives framed as four "apples": the creative classroom grant program, scholarships, student awards and an educator-recognition program. She highlighted a middle-school grantee whose…
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