SPOKANE, Wash.–STCU is awarding 108 teachers grants of $250 each for their classrooms, awarding $27,000 in all. The winners were chosen at random from among 23 public school districts in Eastern Washington and North Idaho.
The winners can spend their $250 grant on anything they believe will enhance students’ classroom experience, whether a basic need or something special.
STCU made surprise deliveries to 80 of the winners the week of Oct. 6. Another 28 winners will be drawn in early November, from the Spokane, Richland, and Kennewick school districts. Staff in those districts have the opportunity to enter the drawings at district benefits fairs.
Continuing a long tradition, STCU also provided meals, refreshments and door prizes at back-to-school events for more than 6,500 educators and other staff in 23 public school districts in Eastern Washington and North Idaho this year.
Classroom staff who attend those events enter our drawings for classroom grants. It is the seventh year that STCU has offered the grant drawings, which have been greatly expanded in recent years to include more recipients.