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Foundation for Education Awards $650 for Local School Project
News Release
For Immediate Release
December 12, 2022
Foundation for Education Awards $650 for Local School Project
GRAND FORKS, N.D. – The Grand Forks Foundation for Education, Inc. is awarding $650 this year to help fund one staff development project at Grand Forks Public Schools using the Bjertness Staff Development Endowment.
In 2004, the Bjertness Staff Development Endowment was established in honor and memory of Echo Bjertness and Ben Bjertness. Echo and Ben were both long-time educators whose wish was to assist teachers in Grand Forks Public Schools in their growth as educators. The fund continues to grow thanks to monthly gifts from the Bjertness Estate until June 2020. The income from the endowed fund shall be used to finance one or more annual grants to educators in the Grand Forks Public Schools, for the purpose of developing or improving their teaching skills.
Sarah Harlow, Grand Forks Central High School, has been awarded $650 for her project, Conducting and Wind Music Symposium.
For further information on the project that was funded this year, please contact Foundation Executive Director Emilia Hodgson at 701.787.4866.
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