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CTV News
4 days ago
- General
- CTV News
Chatham school receives $20,000 literacy grant
A Chatham school has been awarded a $20,000 literacy grant, on behalf of the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation. King George VI Public School was one of 30 chosen across Canada. $20,000 will be given over three years, allowing the school to enhance its library collection and inspire a love of reading for the students. 'We are absolutely thrilled and incredibly grateful to receive this $20,000 Indigo Love of Reading Grant,' said Principal Danielle Maryschak. 'This generous funding will be a game-changer for our school library, allowing us to acquire a diverse collection of new books and resources that will undoubtedly ignite a passion for reading in our students. We believe that a strong library is the heart of a thriving school, and this grant will empower us to provide our students with the tools and inspiration they need to become lifelong learners and readers.' The Indigo Love of Reading Foundation has committed more than $36 million to more than 3,600 schools since 2004.
Times
10-05-2025
- Times
Paris nursery that shows how France has lost control to drug gangs
Teachers at the Émile Zola nursery school had become accustomed to the little cellophane packets tossed over the wall into the playground by drug dealers fleeing the police. Sometimes a child would pick one up and maybe even take it home and present it to a shocked parent in the Paris suburb of Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine. The final straw came this year, however, when a laughing-gas canister tossed from a tower block balcony smashed the window of the school library. 'It really worried the teachers,' Sébastien Phan, an opposition councillor, told me last week. 'If it had hit a child standing in the courtyard, it could have killed them.' What happened next shocked many people even more: in an implicit admission that the police could not protect
