RT-C Education Foundation Keeps Making Huge Impact
The RT-C Education Foundation recently adopted and approved their budget for the 2021-2022 school year. In order to fulfill their obligations and goals for the upcoming year, the Foundation’s objective is to raise approximately $100,000 through donations, grants, and fundraising. The RT-C Education Foundation, now in its 11th year, continues its mission to support Art, Music, and Technology where The Round Top-Carmine (RT-C) ISD falls short with funding due to the state’s recapture system. Recapture is the process through which a district returns some of their local property-tax revenue to the state. RT-C ISD is the only school district in the area that is subject to recapture each year. This school year, RT-C ISD will give away approximately $1.3 million of taxpayer money, and the Education Foundation’s purpose is to attempt to cover the cost of items and programs that the district’s budget would not be able to provide students.
Each year, the RT-C Education Foundation awards innovative teacher grants. This school year, the following grants were approved: wireless speakers for the classrooms, graphic design software, a yearbook camera and lens, and a table saw for the Agricultural Education classes. In addition to funding these grants, the Foundation hopes to purchase and install the final two interactive white boards and 55 desktop computers with Mi crosoft Office software during the upcoming school year.
The Foundation has provided crucial equipment and supplies for students, teachers, and classrooms throughout the years. Most recently, it provided almost all classrooms in RT-C ISD with interactive white boards, paid for all musical instruments and repairs, and purchased new chrome books for all students. In addition, through grants and contributions from the community, the foundation was able to fund a renovation to the elementary library and supply books and reference material for the high school library. The Foundation provides annual art supplies for all art programs and recently purchased a new art curriculum for the elementary school. Other additional items provided include LCD microscopes for the science lab, a music/band room for the students, grants that provided tools and equipment for the woodworking and agricultural students, technology and educational software and a multi-use Memorial Courtyard.
To learn more go to rtceducationfoundation.org.