Last modified: Friday, November 20, 2009 10:38 AM PST Ontario High School students leave the high school building on their lunch break Thursday. The Ontario School District received a little more than $100,000 in various grant funding to provide support for four different programs. The Ontario School Board appropriated that funding at Thursday’s regular school board meeting. An infusion of funds By JESSICA KELLER ARGUS OBSERVER ONTARIO — A little more than $100,000 in grant funding will boost certain programs in the Ontario School District this school year following resolutions passed by the Ontario School Board Thursday night to appropriate the funds. The bulk of the money, $60,000, came from a School Improvement grant and a federal American Reinvestment and Recovery Act subsidy to be used for instructional and support services. “That money goes strictly to Alameda (Elementary School) to help support their efforts to meet AYP,” Ontario School District Director of Instruction and School Services Melissa Williams said. Because Alameda missed Adequate Yearly Progress targets for the second year in a row, pushing it into the improvement category, the school was required to offer transfers or free tutoring. Williams said the additional funds will go toward after-school programs, especially dedicated to helping those limited English proficient students who missed federal benchmarks in mathematics. The school district also received $28,401 in a Supplemental Summer School Funds for Migrant Programs Grant that will go to the summer school program. The third grant was a Title X ARRA Grant in the amount of $7,447 to benefit the school district’s program for homeless students. The fourth grant, of $10,000, a Moving Math Education Forward Grant, will be used to expand the school district’s math leadership team to every grade and every school. “Actually, most of them we weren’t expecting,” Williams said of the grants. In other board news, the Ontario School Board approved its new district logo, motto and belief statements at the meeting.