The Sparta Education Foundation (SEF) approved two grants for flexible seating and announced changes to the board at their September 10 meeting. Alpine School and Helen Morgan School classrooms will be outfitted with flexible seating to promote individual learning styles in separate grants totaling $27,478. The 2019-20 SEF Executive Board includes President Donna West, Vice President Donna Spinetta, Treasurer Nancy Purnell and newly-elected Secretary Heather

The Sparta Education Foundation held their annual meeting on June 4 at Mohawk Avenue School. Changes to the board and a newly approved grant for a Maker Space at Alpine School were on the agenda as the SEF completed their last meeting of the 2018-19 school year. “The annual meeting was bittersweet as we said good-bye to our longstanding trustee and former SEF President Dorothy

Dr. Robert Pampin of Sparta attended the March 5 board meeting of The Sparta Education Foundation (SEF) where he donated an electric bass guitar to the Isak Anderson Recording Studio at Sparta High School. After a patient of Dr. Pampin’s gave him the five-string Ibanez electric bass guitar, he restored it for use by the high school students. Dr. Pampin is a family practice physician