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LEAF Announces a Total of $24,667 in Fall 2015 Grants Awards St. Cloud, MN— The District 742 Local Education & Activities Foundation announced the awarding of $24,667 during its fall Activities Funds granting cycle. Each year, LEAF awards supplemental funding to academic, activities, arts and athletic programming. Teachers, coaches and advisers submit…

ROLL & READ BUS DRIVES UP SUMMER READERSHIP When the colorful Roll & Read Project bus pulled up to elementary schools, Boys and Girls Clubs and neighborhoods this summer, children eager to access the mobile library’s generous array of books came running and climbed aboard.

LEAF announces the official kickoff of the Adopt a Classroom Project for the fall of 2015. The District 742 Local Education & Activities Foundation’s goal is to connect businesses, individuals and groups to specific classrooms to help provide needed supplies that the District is unable to fund. Supporters can “adopt” a classroom (Early Education, Elemen…

With almost 100 years of history at St. Cloud Tech High School, it is not surprising that alumni, teachers, coaches and community members come out each summer to support Tech students during the Tiger Scramble Golf Tournament.  Celebrating the 7th annual fundraiser on Friday, July 31st, the Tiger Scramble,  sponsored by Schluchter Financial Advisors, welcom…

Since 2011, LEAF has been supporting the Partners And Kids Reading A-lot Together (PAKRAT) program in our District 742 elementary schools.  The program has been a great success, with 87% of the students reporting that PAKRAT has made them a better reader and 98% of the parents indicating they wanted the program to continue.

At our LEAF Board of Director’s meeting on March 16, the following Spring 2015 Academic Grants and Activities Grants were approved.   Overall, there were a total of 33 grants and $27,548 awarded.  Unfortunately, we had grant requests totaling $61,442.66, which indicates we have more work to do!