Funding News

• October 21, 2011 Students Eager for Access

   
  When it comes to writing essays, 13-year-old Thomas Hamburger thinks using a pencil is overrated.
   
  He’s used to typing his essays on computers, where he can look up help online and make changes to his assignments easily.
   
  “When I use a pencil, I can’t see what I did wrong,” the eighth-grader said as he pulled up past [...]

• September 2, 2011 Harrison County School District Receives Foundation Grant Award

   
  Vantage Learning recently presented the Harrison County School District in Mississippi with a $115,200 grant to provide professional development training and online instructional tools to help students improve their writing skills.
   
  As part of the Vantage Learning Keystone Partner Program, Harrison County will receive educational technology funding to employ the instructional writing and assessment program MY [...]

• February 26, 2010 California District Implements Writing Program Throughout Elementary Schools

  -Scott Aronowitz, T.H.E Journal
  Stanislaus Union School District in Stanislaus, CA, reported that it implement Vantage Learning’s MY Access! writing software for the 5th and 6th grades in all of its five elementary schools. The program is being funded through the federal Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program.
  The software analyzes more than 350 characteristics of an [...]

• February 26, 2010 Government Grant Helps Stainislaus Union To Sustain 21st Learning Technology

  -Mini Swamy, TMCnet
  A government grant assigned for the purpose of Enhancing Education through Technology, commonly referred to as EETT, is to be implemented shortly into Stanislaus Union’s elementary schools, giving them the opportunity to learn from an online learning program. This is intended to benefit an entire school district.
  Initially, Stanislaus Union School District had [...]

• November 27, 2009 My Access Helps Students Write

  -StandardNET

  OGDEN — Don’t look now, but students are actually starting to like writing assignments.
  For more than a year the Weber School District has been using a Web-based instructional writing program that helps students learn and apply the fundamentals of writing.
  The computer program “My Access” instantly scores students’ essays through advanced artificial intelligence technologies. With the [...]

• October 10, 2009 Bend Educators Receive Technology Grant

  -Today’s OEA

  In September, students, educators, and district administrators at Cascade Middle School in Bend, Ore., learned they’d be receiving a $15,400 grant to improve the school’s educational technology. The funding comes as a part of the Vantage Learning Keystone Partner Program, which will give over $250 thousand in grants, endowments, and subsidies to 10 districts [...]

• October 1, 2009 Bend Educators Receive Technology Grant

  -Today’s OEA
  In September, students, educators, and district administrators at Cascade Middle School in Bend, Ore., learned they’d be receiving a $15,400 grant to improve the school’s educational technology. The funding comes as a part of the Vantage Learning Keystone Partner Program, which will give over $250 thousand in grants, endowments, and subsidies to 10 districts [...]

• September 22, 2009 $300K Gift Aims To Boost Writing Scores

  -Broomfield Enterprise
  Donated software demonstrated at Legacy High in Broomfield on Tuesday
  Students at Legacy High School and Westlake Middle School received a $300,000 gift Tuesday; one teachers hope will result in higher tests scores.
  Middle and high school students in Adams 12 school district will be able to use the software program, MY Access!, to [...]

• September 16, 2009 Oakland Receives $5,000 Grant For Ed Tech

  - The Murfreesboro Post
  Teachers, students and district administrators at Oakland High School received a much needed grant for education technology this morning.
  Oakland is the recipient of over $5,000 in educational technology funding, as a part of the Vantage Learning Keystone Partner Program, in which Vantage will award over half a million dollars in grants, endowments [...]

• September 15, 2009 Oakland High School Students To Receive $4,000 In Ed grants

  -DNJ.com

  Teachers, students, and district administrators at Oakland High School will receive a much-needed grant for education technology at 9 a.m. Wednesday.
  Oakland is the recipient of $4,000 in educational technology funding, as part of the Vantage Learning Keystone Partner Program, in which Vantage will award over half a million dollars in grants, endowments, and subsidies to [...]