SANTA ANA : Schools Get $25,000 for Library Materials
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Five schools in the Santa Ana Unified School District have won library materials grants worth a total of $25,000 from the state Department of Education.
The campuses, each of which won $5,000, include Edison, Jefferson and Heninger elementary schools, MacArthur Fundamental, and Valley High School. The money will be used to purchase books, CD-ROM encyclopedias, nonfiction books in Spanish, and periodicals, said Edward Lee Vargas, assistant superintendent for support services.
Grant money for school libraries was generated through checkoff boxes included on state income tax returns. Only 141 out of 2,500 schools that requested the grants received them, Vargas said.
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