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Grants awarded to Elgin projects aiming to fight community inequities Atoy Spates of Elgin is one of first recipients of an Elevating Equity grant, a grass-roots grantmaking program initiated by Grand Victoria Foundation. Her project seeks to provide healing modalities, resources, workshops, and services to people of color in Elgin. COURTESY OF GRAND VICTORIA FOUNDATION
Parker Thompson and Elgin Community Bikes are among three organizations receiving an Elevating Equity grant from Grand Victoria Foundation. Rick West/rwest@ dailyherald.com, August 2020 Cristina Colunga is one of first recipients of an Elevating Equity grant, a grass-roots grantmaking program initiated by Grand Victoria Foundation. Her project, Raices, is a series of paintings that focuses on the migration story of her grandparents and family from México to Elgin. ....
Updated 1/11/2021 10:45 PM Elgin Area School District U-46 officials Monday shared details of their plan to switch to in-person learning despite safety concerns raised by teachers. Hybrid in-person classes begin Tuesday for prekindergarten through sixth-grade students, and next Tuesday for middle school and high school students. Families who choose to keep their students in distance learning can still do so.
Superintendent Tony Sanders in his weekly message to district families acknowledged students had suffered significant losses since schools switched to remote learning last March due to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. U-46 hasn t returned to in-person instruction except for a few weeks in the fall second quarter for select groups of students when school districts once again were urged to switch to remote learning. ....