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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
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State
Rep. Mike Hanna |
  
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Hanna announces local school to receive science grant
HARRISBURG, July 28 – State Rep. Mike Hanna, D-Clinton/Centre, announced that the Penns Valley Area Elementary & Intermediate School will be receiving a grant as part of the "Science: It's Elementary" program.
Science: It’s Elementary allows school districts to invest in programs and technology that have been proven to help children succeed in elementary science classes. It provides science kits for hands-on experiments on the weather, water, balance and motion, electricity, and rocks and minerals.
"This hands-on approach allows the children to do more than just observe," said Hanna. "They are able to experiment, propose solutions and test their own theories."
The expansion of the program, made possible by an appropriation of $14.5 million in the 2008-09 enacted state budget, will be implemented in 14 new school districts reaching 298 teachers and 8,242 students. Combined with funding in the previous two years, 143 elementary schools will be offered innovative science teaching in the 2008-09 school year, reaching 2,847 teachers and 66,973 students across Pennsylvania.
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For more information on the program, visit the Department of Education Web site at www.pde.state.pa.us.
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