OGMS News

On the side of every Jordan shoebox are the words, "a portion of the proceeds from the purchase of JORDAN products support educational initiatives.” The Jordan Fundamentals Grant program earmarked 200 Fundamentals grants for teachers impacted directly by hurricanes Rita and Katrina. Two seventh grade math teachers, Michael Cox and Shauna Hedgepeth, applied for the grant during the summer. They were notified on September 15th that each would each receive $2500 by the end of October for the ideas they had to improve Oak Grove Middle School after last year's hurricanes.

Mr. Cox is using the grant money to build a math resource library for our middle school teachers. Ms. Hedgepeth is buying graphing calculators and calculator-based labs to help teach the math and science behind the hurricane.

Jordan Fundamentals has been extended for an additional 4 years through 2009.  Next year's teachers can apply here. The regular Jordan Fundamentals Grant has restrictions based on the population of free and reduced lunch. A list of the 2006 grant winners will be available at a later date at: http://www.nikebiz.com/community