Chicago Agricultural High School Wins Grant For New Horse Barn
(CBS) -- The Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences is getting a new horse barn, thanks to a teacher's essay and her students' diligence in stuffing the social media ballot box, reports WBBM's John Cody.
The schools animal science teacher Maggie Kendall wrote the grant application and her students repeatedly voted her proposal the best so the Ag science school will be expanding maybe within a year.
Principal William Hook says the $100,000 Farmers Insurance grant will go a long way towards defraying $300,000 plus cost of the equestrian barn which he says will expand the schools special needs riding program, as well as provide horse riding facilities for residents in the south end of Chicago.
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