Georgia schools chief wins cash for kids with disabilities
September 9th, 2008
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Kathy Cox, Georgia’s state school superintendent, found an unorthodox way to beef up the funding for three schools that serve kids with disabilities: She won $1 million on the Fox TV series, “Are You Smarter than a 5th-Grader?”
Winning question: Who is Britain’s longest-reigning monarch? (Answer: Queen Victoria.)
Cox announced that her winnings will go to the Georgia Academy for the Blind in Macon, the Atlanta Area School for the Deaf in Clarkston and the Georgia School for the Deaf in Cave Spring. They are the only schools for deaf and blind students that the state Department of Education operates.
No one is sure how much each school will get after taxes are deducted.
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