The Rockville Centre Education Foundation presented a check to the school district for $27,720 on Nov. 16, which will help fund seven new grant opportunities.
“Our mission is to raise money for innovative and enriching programs that go above and beyond what the curriculum can offer,” Mayda Kramer, the foundation’s president, told the Board of Education at its public workshop meeting last week, “or it seeds a brand new program that hopefully is successful, and the district will take it forward and continue to fund it.”
The education foundation is a volunteer-centric nonprofit that was created in 1991, with the goal of enhancing the district’s quality of education by providing financial resources for cutting-edge programs that go beyond the normal scope of the curriculum.
Jean Harris, a foundation director, said…
