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Days Left to Vote for Chicago Teacher Vying for Funds to Build Indoor Riding Arena
The local teacher has a dream for an indoor riding arena for the school's special needs equestrian program—but she can't do it on her own.
Only six days remain to vote for a Chicago teacher vying for a $100,000 grant from Farmers Insurance.
Maggie Kendall of Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences is a finalist in the Thank a Million Teachers Dream Big Challenge, putting her in the running for one of five $100,000 “Dream Big” grants rewarding winning teachers for their ideas to transform their classrooms, schools and communities.
Kendall dreams of using the money to build an indoor riding arena for the school, 3857 W 111th St., Chicago. The arena would allow the school—Chicago’s only working farm and location for an equestrian program for kids and adults with special needs—to extend the riding program year-round. Currently, students can only ride outside and, with another brutal Chicago winter in the forecast, this limits the time the students have with the specially-trained horses, Kendall said in her proposal.
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Voting ends Nov. 30. Click here to vote.
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