PAKRAT

Today’s launch of the PAKRAT/PAKCAT summer bus schedule was great success.  Kids and parents line up at Lake George to make there choices.  

Come and Pick Up a Free Book! We’re bringing the PAKRAT Roll and Read Book Bus back to you this summer in a different way.  This year, we want to give you a new book to keep! What: The PAKRAT Roll and Read book bus will be coming to a neighborhood near you! Please come and select a free book! We will also have a math bag with activities for you! The bus…

On May 28, Sara Martini and Bruce Hentges stopped by the United Way office to pick up nearly 1,500 books donated to PAKRAT by the United Way.  The books were left over from the United Way’s Imagination Library effort and will be distributed to District 742 students through the summertime Roll & Read PAKRAT Bus.

PAKRAT DATA for 2018-2019 TOTAL BOOKS READ DISTRICT WIDE DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR: 159,322 Roll and Read Book Bus Summer of 2019: 1,852 children checked out 4,614 books

Good News: Yesterday (05/16/2019), we were informed that we will receive two separate grants in support of LEAF efforts: 1.  $21,000 from the Richard Schulze Foundation (Best Buy) in support of the PAKRAT Program. This will allow us to continue to expand the PAKRAT library in our 9 elementary and preschool buildings as well as the summer Roll & Read …

A new PAKRAT video has been produced for our Gannett/USA Today grant application that describes the school year and summer program.