Glendale : $200,000 Grant Out of Reach
No room, no grant.
That’s the situation Glendale school officials found themselves in while seeking $200,000 in state funds for a program for troubled students in kindergarten through third grade.
School board members last month approved a district request to apply for the grant from the California Department of Mental Health. The Primary Intervention Program would target students at five elementary schools: Balboa, Franklin, Jefferson, Keppel and White.
School officials ran into problems when they could not provide facilities for students at three of the five schools, said Donald W. Empey, the district’s deputy superintendent for educational services.
“It didn’t make sense . . . to prepare the grant for the other (two) schools,” Empey said Monday.
Although the district had to pass on the Primary Intervention Program, Empey does not think it will have a negative impact.
“This was going to be an additional program that we had hoped to install,” he said. “We already have some programs for these kids after school. We’re always on the lookout (for others).”
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