Grants Keep Rolling in for Kent Roosevelt Teacher

Chris Carman has helped obtain or administer almost $80,000 in grants for Kent City Schools

Chris Carman admits he's not some expert grant writer. "I've been really fortunate," he said. Fortunate to the tune of about $77,000. A science teacher at Theodore Roosevelt High School, Carman has either helped administer or apply for grants totaling almost $80,000 since 2007. Each grant included an environmental component. This year, Carman got a $5,000 grant from the Dominion Foundation for his submission "Water, Water Everywhere." He used the award to expand on his first grant — a $5,000 gift from the Kent Environmental Council in 2007 — for water quality testing. The KEC money bought LabQuest probes to teach students how to measure water quality in any body of water. The kits were used on Breakneck Creek and Fishcreek. The Dominion …

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