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Manchester PTA Gives $5,000 In Grants To Teachers

The PTA raises funds throughout the school year and provides grants to teachers for classroom items to support learning.

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Manchester PTA grant winners and principals representing absent grant winners.
Manchester PTA grant winners and principals representing absent grant winners. (Lee Bruzaitis/Manchester Twp. Schools)

MANCHESTER, NJ — The Manchester Township PTA distributed $5,000 in grant funding to 14 teachers in February, supporting classrooms and learning with items from novels to alegbra activities to paints for a mask project.

The grants, awarded at the Feb. 27 Board of Education meeting, were selected out of 38 applications that totaled $13,000. The PTA's grant budget was $5,000.

PTA President Melissa DiDia said all of the applications were worthy and it was very difficult for the committee to make the final selections.

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Superintendent David Trethaway thanked the PTA for providing the grants and for all that they do for the students of Manchester.

DiDia and PTA past president Sarita Dodd presented the awards, which were as follows:

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  • Leah Robbins, Manchester Township High School, $300 for an Algebra Activities Bundle
  • Christine Newbury, Manchester Township High School, $357 for Chemical Stories books
  • Megan Baumgartner, Manchester Township Middle School, $151 for gel writing boards
  • Kelly Chinery, Manchester Township Middle School, $200 for classroom novels
  • Alice McGlynn, Manchester Township Elementary School, $200 for tempera paints for mask projects
  • Danielle Hickey, Manchester Township Elementary School, $494 for wobble chairs, rockers and laptop tables
  • Lynn Spinelli, Ridgeway School, $105 for 5 Minute Therapy workbooks
  • Josh Simpson, Ridgeway School, $299 for adjustable standing desk
  • Kevin Jones, Ridgeway School, $395 for pedometers
  • Crystal Policastro, Ridgeway School, $493 for guided math tools and games
  • Samantha Greenstein, Ridgeway School, $437 for take home book bags
  • Tracy Kiernan, Whiting School, $467 for a Dell projector
  • Nancy Trust, Whiting School, $500 for C-Pen text to speech reader
  • Colleen Goetz, Whiting School, $489 for games, frontier logs and movies

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