Speas Elementary School is one of 238 schools across the
country receiving grants from The Laura Bush Foundation for America’s
Libraries.
The foundation awarded a $5,000 grant to Speas to
expand, update and diversify it library book collection. Altogether, the foundation will award $1.13 million in grants for 2012.
Partnering this year with the Laura Bush Foundation for America’s
Libraries was Target Corp. Through such programs as Take Charge of Education
and Target School Library Makeovers, Target donates a significant portion of its
giving towards educational causes with a focus on helping students achieve
reading proficiency.
The Laura Bush Foundation has awarded more than $9.5 million
to schools in all 50 states, the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Marshall
Islands and the Northern Mariana
Islands. In addition to these yearly grants, the Foundation has
also awarded more than $6.3 million to school libraries in the Gulf Coast
region to rebuild their library book collections that were lost or destroyed by
hurricanes or storms.
More information about the foundation is available at www.laurabushfoundation.org
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