Wednesday, November 24, 1999
72 elementary schools win grants
BY SUE KIESEWETTER
Enquirer Contributor
Seventy-two elementary schools in 26 Southwest Ohio districts will receive grants totaling more than $3.6 million from Gov. Bob Taft's OhioReads program.
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AREA GRANTS
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School districts in five Southwest Ohio counties received more than $3.6 million in grants from the OhioReads program. How the money was divided:
Hamilton County
Cincinnati, $756,993
Deer Park, $29,676
Finneytown, $16,527
Forest Hills, $102,700
Mount Healthy, $240,000
Northwest, $173,630
Norwood, $47,960
Princeton, $126,725
St. Bernard, $60,000
Sycamore, $165,666
Winton Woods, $240,000
Total: $1,959,877
Butler County
Hamilton, $600,000
Lakota, $120,000
Middletown/Monroe, $50,000
Ross, $33,700
Total: $803,700
Clermont County
Bethel-Tate, $60,000
Clermont Northeastern, $60,000
Felicity-Franklin, $60,000
Goshen, $30,000
West Clermont, $60,000
Williamsburg, $60,000
Total: $330,000
Warren County
Carlisle, $59,870
Kings, $178,700
Little Miami, $60,000
Wayne, $60,000
Total: $358,570
Source: Ohio Department of Education
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Among the big winners were the Cincinnati Public Schools, where 14 elementary schools will split $756,993, and the Hamilton City Schools, where 10 schools each received $60,000.
They were among 740 public elementary schools that will receive a total of $39.9 million from the OhioReads Council. Altogether, 1,271 schools applied for grants totaling $67.7 million.
The money will help schools train reading volunteers, hire program coordinators and pay for books and other teaching materials.
By design, 60 percent of the grants went to urban or rural schools, with 40 percent going to suburban schools, said Dottie Howe of the Ohio Department of Education.
“We were trying to spread it (money) out across the state but also hitting the neediest districts,” Ms. Howe said. “The applications were judged on how well the programs proposed to meet the need to increase reading at grade level.”
In Cincinnati the money will be used to replicate Oyler's successful HOSTS — Help One Student To Succeed — tutoring/mentoring program in some schools, and to begin the Failure Free Reading program at others, said Kevin Corrigan, grants manager for the Cincinnati Public Schools.
“Schools are already doing training for the programs. They were holding their breath, hoping they would get the grants,” Mr. Corrigan said. “We hope to start the programs after the holiday break.”
In Hamilton, money will be used to begin after-school volunteer tutor programs in some buildings, and initiate the Accelerated Reader or Failure Free reading programs in others, said Joyce Schueler, reading supervisor for the district's Title I office.
“Everyone is really excited. This was a cooperative effort between principals, teachers and the Title I office,” Ms. Schueler said. “We think it will boost reading scores and enable more students to pass the fourth-grade reading (proficiency) test.”
Other Ohio school districts receiving sizable grants were Columbus, with $1.02 million; Cleveland, $772,673; Youngstown, $659,539; and Dayton, $410,818.
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