Trio Earns Grants

Three BISD elementary schools, Canales, Morningside, and Sharp, received grants of up to $5,000 from the Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries. The money will be used to expand, update and diversify their library book collections. A total of 241 school libraries received $1,086,926 in grants for 2011. Two McAllen schools were the only other Rio Grande Valley schools to receive library grants this year. The Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries was founded in 2002 as a fund of The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region. Since its inception, the Laura Bush Foundation has awarded more than $8.4 million to 1,624 schools in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Marshall Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands.