Wake Schools Win Challenge Grants

WAKE COUNTY – Fifteen Wake County public schools will start the new school year with some additional funding. The schools won challenge grants from Wake Education Partnership through their participation in the 2006 Annual Fund for Education campaign.

“The School Challenge Campaign provides an important link to the Annual Fund for Education,” said Del Burns, superintendent for the Wake County Public School System and a member of the Wake Euducation Partnership Board of Directors. “Every year, employees in the Wake County Public School System show their dedication to education through both their commitment to their students and their investment in the work of Wake Education Partnership.”

The school challenge is an awards process in which schools compete within categories based on the number of employees at each school. The awards allow the Partnership to recognize outstanding schools based on a variety of achievements they have made throughout their individual campaigns. Awards of unrestricted grant money ranging from $125 to $1,500 are given to the schools that represent the highest standards of merit in dedication to their campaign. Partnership President Bob Saffold personally presented checks to all first place winners.

One first, second and third place award will be given to each of the following schools:

Category I (1-65 employees)
1st Place: Kingswood Elementary
2nd Place: Project Enlightenment
3rd Place: Vance Elementary

Category II (66-75 employees)
1st Place: Baileywick Elementary
2nd Place: Bugg Elementary
3rd Place: Lead Mine Elementary

Category III (76-86 employees)
1st Place: Adams Elementary
2nd Place: Reedy Creek Middle
3rd Place: Zebulon Elementary

Category IV (97-99 employees)
1st Place: Baucom Elementary
2nd Place: North Garner Middle
3rd Place: Wildwood Forest Elementary

Category V (100+ employees)
1st Place: Middle Creek High
2nd Place: Creech Road Elementary
3rd Place: Southeast Raleigh High