Bolingbrook High School Student Newspaper Gets $1,500 Grant

Thanks to the Illinois First Amendment Center’s Mini-Grants Program, student newspaper, the Raider Review, has received a financial shot-in-the-arm for the 2012-13 school year.

The self-funded monthly on-line publication, which came out in print only twice during the past school year, will utilize a $1,500 grant to expand both its online and print presence for the coming school year. Faculty sponsor Julie Brown and 2012-13 Editor-In-Chief Rachel Erskine accepted the grant from the Illinois Press Foundation and the McCormick Foundation.

According to the IPF’s Barry Locher, 86 applicants were considered for roughly $45,000 in grants. The program is designed to help high school media programs throughout the state.

Editor's Note: The following is a release from the Valley View School District.