Robbinsville – Graham County Schools Superintendent Angie Knight announced that the district has received a total of $3,378,800 in grant money during the past three months at Tuesday’s Board of Education meeting.
Grants include money to construct an on-campus greenhouse, enhance school security and make the C-Stop program – the intermediate disciplinary step between ISS and expulsion – fully functional.
The greenhouse program will include help constructing the greenhouse itself.
The district will use the Safe Schools grant to purchase much-needed radio equipment to improve communications and the $125,000 Pacesetters – based in Cherokee County – grant will allow the C-stop program to provide rehabilitation-type services to students as a last resort before suspension.
In other district news:
* The GEAR UP program has supplied Texas instruments calculators to Graham County students.
* Jack Booth has been hired as the new school resource officer for Robbinsville Elementary School. Booth said he was “really excited to be a part of the family.”
* The district was one of only two in the state to have exceeded growth upon testing.