ADVISORY/California Lottery Presents $1,000 To San Diego Unified School District.News/Assignment Editors ADVISORY...for Friday (March 16) SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2001 California Lottery District Manager, Charlie Rich, will present a check for $1,000 to the Taft Middle School tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. in the front of the school located at 9191 Gramercy gra·mer·cy interj. Archaic Used to express surprise or gratitude. [Middle English gramerci, from Old French grand merci : grand, great; see grand + Drive in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. . The check presentation will be made to Barbara Balsen, principal of Taft Middle School. A representative from GTECH Corporation  should be added to this article, to conform with Wikipedia's Manual of Style.Please discuss this issue on the talk page. will be on hand to participate in the presentation, as will various legislative representatives. The funds for this donation came from recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. of old game playslips and point-of-sale materials and will be used for whatever purpose is determined by Taft Middle School. Checks will also be presented to the principals of schools near the California Lottery's other eight district offices. "We are so excited to not only be able to contribute 34% of each dollar we take in to California's schools, but also to donate this money to a school near the Lottery's San Diego office," commented Joan Wilson, director of the California Lottery. The California Lottery is working in partnership with GTECH Corporation in this check presentation effort. GTECH, the world's largest provider of Lottery on-line gaming services, has a corporate history of outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public. programs to local schools in the states that they service. GTECH has its nationwide "After School Agenda" program which is designed to close the "digital divide." The company provides a full digital lab for its selected school. "We are pleased to be a part of the solution for our state's public schools," said Dan McKenzey, account general manager for the GTECH Corporation. San Diego Lottery staff worked with the affected school district to select the recipient school. Each school determines how the funding will be used at their site. The Lottery, of course, is mandated to raise supplemental funding for California's public school systems, K-12 through higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. . Since sales began in 1985, the Lottery has raised over $12 billion for public education. The San Diego Unified School District A unified school district is a school district which includes both primary school (kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high school (grades 9-12). In Illinois, these districts are called unit school districts. received nearly $16.8 million in Lottery funds in the last school year and Lottery hopes to exceed that total when all of the transfers for the current fiscal year. The California Lottery has a real commitment beyond its constitutional mandate to raise funds for California's public schools. Each year, it supports statewide competitions, which recognize excellence in student academics, teacher performance or program design. Currently, the agency is actively involved in the California Academic Decathlon decathlon (dĭkăth`lŏn), in modern Olympic games, a contest for men held over two days and composed of 10 track-and-field events. competition and the California Teachers of the Year program. Note to Editors: Photo Available |
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