Bancroft-Rosalie School is part of a quarter million grant

Reprinted from ESU 2 website.

ESU2 receives quarter million distance learning grant award

USDA Rural Development Nebraska State Director Maxine Moul held a press conference at Educational Service Unit (ESU) 2 in Fremont on December 15, to present the service unit with a plaque for obtaining $283,248 for a distance learning grant that will be leveraged with $212,500 from the recipient.
At a half million, it is the largest distance learning grant award project in the state of Nebraska, according to Moul.
“Opportunities like the USDA RUS grant provide funding to equip our schools with the tools necessary to expand learning and programming.  This particular grant is providing funding to improve the broadcast and recording capabilities of the Educational Service Unit,” said Diane Wolfe, Educational Service Unit 2 distance learning director and project grant writer.   “Specifically, it will provide video conferencing and recording capabilities for our large conference room.  This will allow schools to participate in training opportunities in their own schools.”
In addition to the Unit itself, the project grant provides equivalent video conferencing upgrades for six ESU 2 member schools in the counties of Burt, Cuming, Dodge and Saunders, as well as 11 selective ESU1 schools that are part of a Northeast Nebraska regional consortium of service units. ESU 2 schools include:

• Bancroft Rosalie Community Schools
• Lyons Decatur Northeast Public Schools
• Mead Public Schools
• Oakland-Craig Public Schools
• Tekamah-Herman Public Schools
• Wahoo Public Schools

This project will allow rurally isolated schools to continue to connect students to museums, authors, science centers, performing arts centers, and historical locations where students are able to interact with professionals from across the globe.