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Silicon Valley Community Foundation to get $7.5M grant

Original post made on Sep 22, 2014

Silicon Valley Community Foundation in Mountain View will receive $7.5 million from the federal Social Innovation Fund to improve reading skills in San Mateo County, where 42 percent of third-graders cannot read proficiently, according to a foundation press release.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Monday, September 22, 2014, 10:53 AM

Comments (4)

Posted by Andrea
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Sep 22, 2014 at 2:46 pm

This sounds like a wonderful program. Would love to see something similar for Santa Clara County schools.


Posted by Steve
a resident of another community
on Sep 23, 2014 at 2:49 pm

"federal Social Innovation Fund"?
Please, tell me this a joke...


Posted by Hmm
a resident of Monta Loma
on Sep 23, 2014 at 4:27 pm

"where 42 percent of third-graders cannot read proficiently, according to a foundation press release."

Must be all the 100s of illegal Aliens. Time for deportations to begin.


Posted by Stop the Trolls
a resident of Cuernavaca
on Sep 23, 2014 at 5:39 pm

YOU again, Hmm? Why don't you go back to the Stormfront page, where you belong?


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