The Knox School Board last week accepted nearly $3,700 in funding from the Starke County Community Foundation. Just under $3,500 of that was a regular payout from the Knox Community School Corporation Student Scholarship/Presentation Fund, according to Superintendent Dr. William Reichhart. “That’s the interest that we earn off of that, and we use that, then, for presentations,” he said. “So I was not aware that that fund existed.”
School officials explained that the $150,000 endowment came about a few years ago, when the school corporation took some of the money it used to hold in its own accounts and combined it with money held at the community foundation. That fund may be used to bring in speakers or program presenters or to provide scholarships to students graduating from Knox Community Schools.
Meanwhile, the Knox School Board also accepted a $179 grant from the community foundation, for the purchase of a Qball wireless microphone for Jean Ahlenius’s sixth grade class.
Also during last week’s meeting, Fifth Grade Teacher Jessi Siebenhaar reported that her class had raised about $350 by growing plants from seeds. She said that money will be donated to Relay for Life and Bella Vita Pregnancy Resource Center.
