On Monday, Jan. 11, the Monroe school board:• Learned it has been awarded $35,000 in grant money over the next three years to implement Project Lead The Way. The project is a nonprofit organization that promotes pre-engineering courses for middle and high school students by forming partnerships between public schools, the private sector and higher education institutions, according to the group's Web site. When applying for the grant this fall, the district said it plans to offer two sections of an introductory PLTW course next fall.
Monroe school board: Jan. 11, 2010