The Patterson Foundation in partnership with the Sarasota County School Board has a mission to create a sustainable, coordinated system for connecting students in grades K-12 with our local cultural assets.  This agreement provides professional development for teachers, support for the continued development of the EDExploreSRQ website as a standards-based resource for our teachers to include funding a portion of the fine arts program specialist.  An additional focus of the Patterson Foundation agreement is to support, through funding professional development, to further the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) projects for our schools such as the STEMposiums.

That the agreement between the Patterson Foundation and the School Board of Sarasota County, Florida, be approved.

WHITE & ROCA/ROBERTS