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PNM Donates $50,000 toward APS Literacy Projects

A Celebration of Literacy Will Be Held at Zuni Elementary on Thursday, Feb. 11

February 3, 2010

UPDATE on Feb. 8, 2010: This event has been rescheduled for Thursday, February 11 at 9:30 a.m. 

Superintendent Winston Brooks and APS Board of Education President Martin Esquivel are scheduled to attend this event to celebrate PNM's donation toward literacy projects in Albuquerque Public School through the APS Education Foundation's Horizon Campaign.

UPDATE on Feb. 4, 2010: Due to the two-hour snow delay for all Albuquerque Public Schools, the literacy celebration at Zuni Elementary originally planned for Thursday morning will be rescheduled. A new time and date for the celebration is still being worked out and will be announced later.

Teachers say that when a child learns to read, you can see the light go on. PNM knows a lot about that.

PNM recently announced it will donate $50,000 toward literacy projects in Albuquerque Public Schools through the APS Education Foundation’s Horizon Campaign.

“PNM’s commitment to schoolchildren in Albuquerque is nothing new, but we are pleased and grateful that the company is playing a leading role with the Horizon Campaign,” said APS Education Foundation Executive Director Phill Casaus. “PNM’s partnership with the Foundation and the district will no doubt help move the bar in education.”

Ron Darnell, PNM’s Vice President of Regulatory Policy and a member of the APS Education Foundation Board of Directors, applauded the Foundation’s work to target literacy, noting that “PNM’s investment in literacy and APS will pay dividends into the future.”

The Horizon Campaign, launched in September, is the Foundation’s first-ever attempt to raise $1 million on behalf of district programs. The campaign specifically targets four areas: Fine Arts, Literacy, Middle School/High School Activities and Classroom Teacher Mini-Grants.

Three other major sponsors – Intel, Don Chalmers Ford and Sandia National Laboratories – joined the campaign earlier this year.

Among the district’s literacy projects include its summertime Extended Learning program, which helps elementary-age kids address potential problems in both reading and math. The program is operated at several sites throughout the city, and more than 5,000 APS students took part.

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