Plano ISD Education Foundation receives $50,000 from AT&T

By Stephanie Flemmons and Kim Nguyen / Plano Star-courier
August 17, 2009

The AT&T Foundation gave a $50,000 grant to Plano Independent School District Education Foundation in an effort to decrease the high school dropout rate.

The gift allows the Plano ISD to bring Destination: Graduation — a successful high school dropout prevention program run by the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas — to expand and include more Plano middle schools.

Holly Reed, AT&T’s regional vice president, said this is the first year the grant money will be used to fund this program in middle schools. The program will initially be offered to students at Armstrong and Bowman middle schools, which feed into Williams High School. About 30 eighth grade students were selected to participate in the program and spent two summer weeks attending “Fish Camp,” where they learned about WHS and the school’s administrators, college preparation and goal planning.

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