On Thursday, July 12, Hosmer Library's Bucks for Brains Program (sponsored by Green Central Weed & Seed Initiative) awarded kids for improving their grades over the last quarter of the school year. At a pizza party sponsored by area businesses and Council Member Herron, kids ate pizza, juice, soda and cookies. As their names were called, 22 kids were issued checks for their improved grades, which checks were immediately cashed so that kids took home cold hard cash. Bucks for Brains, the brainchild of Hosmer tutor/mentor Willie Glenn pays kids $2.00 each time they raise their school grades one letter value. If they raise their grades to As, they are paid $2.50 per A. Hosmer issued checks for $315.50 total. Hosmer library kids took home as much as $25.00 (one case only) for grade improvements. The average check was $16.50. Hosmer will begin Bucks for Brains again when school begins in the fall. Kids should sign up the last week of August at Hosmer. There will be room for 100 kids in the program. It was a joy to watch them be rewarded for doing such a good job. For more than half the kids, English is their second language. Wizard Marks, Central _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
