ALLIANCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
Excellence in Education Grants Program
PURPOSE
The purpose of the Alliance Public Schools Foundation Excellence in Education Grants Program is to provide educators and schools a source of funding to assist them in planning, developing and implementing innovative programs and creative opportunities, for which funds are not available through APS, which will result in increased student achievement. This effort will allow educators additional opportunities to help students grow and reach their potential.
The purpose of the Alliance Public Schools Foundation Excellence in Education Grants Program is to provide educators and schools a source of funding to assist them in planning, developing and implementing innovative programs and creative opportunities, for which funds are not available through APS, which will result in increased student achievement. This effort will allow educators additional opportunities to help students grow and reach their potential.
Alliance Public Schools Foundation
1604 Sweetwater Ave
Alliance, NE 69301
1604 Sweetwater Ave
Alliance, NE 69301
Members of the Alliance Public Schools Foundation along with APS Superintendent Dr. Troy Unzicker, center, and the district’s Educational Technology Director Heidi Manion, right, stand behind a table of tech equipment bought with Foundation and Allo for Education funds.
APS Foundation, Allo Fund School Technology
By JOHN E. WEARE
Editor
Alliance Middle School and elementary students will have about $12,000 worth of new technology in their classrooms thanks to funding from the Alliance Public Schools Foundation and the Allo for Education program. Educational Technology Director Heidi Manion said each source paid for about half of the grant. She gathered the hardware on a table explaining there are two class packs with 20 iPad minis apiece destined for fourth grade at Grandview and first grade at Emerson. The district has had iPads at the elementary schools. “These are an upgrade for supplementary materials,” she said. These tablets are separate from the high school’s 1:1 program that has applied to the students there. About $3,000 worth of camera equipment goes to AMS multi media classes. Manion said teachers submit grant applications each school year. Though not limited to a particular subject or curriculum, the three requests this year all sought new technology. By combining donations from the Foundation and Allo she said they were able to honor all three.
APS Foundation, Allo Fund School Technology
By JOHN E. WEARE
Editor
Alliance Middle School and elementary students will have about $12,000 worth of new technology in their classrooms thanks to funding from the Alliance Public Schools Foundation and the Allo for Education program. Educational Technology Director Heidi Manion said each source paid for about half of the grant. She gathered the hardware on a table explaining there are two class packs with 20 iPad minis apiece destined for fourth grade at Grandview and first grade at Emerson. The district has had iPads at the elementary schools. “These are an upgrade for supplementary materials,” she said. These tablets are separate from the high school’s 1:1 program that has applied to the students there. About $3,000 worth of camera equipment goes to AMS multi media classes. Manion said teachers submit grant applications each school year. Though not limited to a particular subject or curriculum, the three requests this year all sought new technology. By combining donations from the Foundation and Allo she said they were able to honor all three.