Mayor Daley’s goal of making science fun for Chicago Public School students — and improving historically dismal science test scores — got a $5 million shot in the arm Thursday.From The Capitol Fax morning shorts.
Deerfield-based Baxter International made a five-year, $5 million donation with the potential to touch the lives of 75,000 junior high and high school students and improve the skills of 450 teachers by 2012.
Specifically, Baxter’s generous Science@Work gift will include: $1 million to help launch two new Renaissance 2010 schools, each serving up to 600 students; $2 million to develop a Biotechnology Center of Excellence at Lindblom Math & Science Academy, where Baxter employees will volunteer, and $2 million to train 96 teachers each year, 66 or them at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Over the five-year life of the grant, 90 percent of the system’s 500 biology teachers will get training. The donation also will bankroll so-called “Baxter Boxes” filled with tools and materials used to teach biotechnology to teachers.
Dispatches from Chicago's south side.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Baxter donates $5M to public schools
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