The Springfield Education Foundation honored eight outstanding seniors, along with the educators who they say have made a difference in their lives, at its first annual Rising Stars event Monday night , May 17 at the Wildish Community Theater.  About 100 family members, friends and business community members attended the short and heartfelt ceremony.  The [...]

The Springfield Education Foundation is offering note cards with the artwork from this year’s calendar. The package contains all of the artwork featured in the Springfield Student Art Calendar for 2009-2010. It consists of 20 note cards with envelopes for $15.00. Calendars are also available for $10.00.

Proceeds from the sales of the calendars and note [...]

On Nov. 18, SEF Board members, community supporters, Springfield and Thurston High Cheerleaders, Thurston High football players and Otto, the Springfield Millers mascot, embarked on a day long journey to 10 Springfield schools to hand out checks to educators who were awarded Innovative Educator Grants.

For years, SEF has funded the Innovative Educator Grant program but [...]

One of the Springfield Education Foundation’s most successful programs is our annual Calendar featuring the artwork of students from Springfield Schools.  Every year, the foundation solicits artwork from students across the Springfield School District (more than 200 entries were submitted this year) and then has the tough task of selecting the pieces that will appear [...]