Princeton Public Schools Awarded Over $55K by Princeton Education Foundation

Princeton Public Schools were awarded a check for $55,635 by the Princeton Education Foundation on Thursday evening. The grant money was donated by both the PEF and other sponsors, and will be put towards a number of school programs and capital improvements. 

“The Princeton Education Foundation would not be able to offer this support to our schools were it not for our many generous sponsors and ondors, and we are extremely grateful to them,” said the PEF’s executive director, Adrienne Rubin. “We are very fortunate to live in a community that not only values education, but is willing to take an active part in ensuring educational excellence for all of our students.” 

$25,000 was donated directly by the PEF, which will be put towards outfitting a classroom at the John Witherspoon Middle School Media Center with new technology and equipment, along with another $8,135 donated by the ongoing PowerUp! fundraising campaign. $17,000 will be used for robotics and computer science academic enhancements at both the middle school and high school.

Another $10,000 was donated by Dollar General to support the extention of the Parent/Family University Program, which is for English language students and their families. The J. Seward Johnson 1963 Charitable Trust donated $9,500, which will be used to support the Princeton High School Ideas Center, a peer tutoring program. Lastly, the Student Investigative Project, a science-inquiry program at the elementary schools, was granted $3,000 by Bristol-Myers Squibb.

To date, the PEF has donated more than $1.2 million to Princeton Public Schools since its inception in 1995.