St. Mary Catholic School has received nearly $100,000 in grants from four foundations. The funds will boost technology and library projects at the Stayton school.
A $65,000 technology grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust will provide the school with new servers, Google Chromebooks with charging carts and state-of-the-art classroom projectors..
The Doris J. Wipper Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation awarded St. Mary a $25,300 grant, which will be used for professional development in technology training and instruction.
In addition, St. Mary received a $2,000 grant from The Autzen Foundation to increase its selection of standards-aligned library books and a $750 grant from the George and Laura Kreitzburg Memorial Fund of the Salem Foundation for nonfiction texts.
“These organizations have generously given St. Mary students and teachers the ability to learn and work in an innovative educational environment that will empower students to become lifelong learners with Catholic values and moral decision-making in a digital age,” Principal Rick Schindler said.
“We are exceptionally grateful. Our faculty is eager to utilize the new library resources as well as further their education in delivering the latest and best technology for the classroom.”
In the past two years, St. Mary has received nearly $150,000 in grants from various charitable
St. Mary is a preschool through eighth grade private school that opened in Stayton in 1929.
