Hamilton, Bradley teachers receive funding for travel studies

Grounded aircraft are seen at Belfast City airport, Northern Ireland. Passengers on European airlines may soon be able to use portable electronics including cell phones and tablet computers any time during flights, under new safety guidelines issued on Friday. The Cologne-based European Aviation Safety Agency said that starting immediately, European airlines can, at their own discretion, allow passengers to leave electronics on the entire flight, without the putting them into "airplane mode." Grounded aircraft are seen at Belfast City airport, Northern Ireland. Passengers on European airlines may soon be able to use portable electronics including cell phones and tablet computers any time during flights, under new safety guidelines issued on Friday. The Cologne-based European Aviation Safety Agency said that starting immediately, European airlines can, at their own discretion, allow passengers to leave electronics on the entire flight, without the putting them into "airplane mode."

By Yolanda Putman April 7, 2015 3 min read

Grant recipients

Susan Morrison, Kirsten Legac and Julie Smith of East Hamilton Middle/High — Vietnam James Carpenter of Ooltewah High — tour of London, Paris and Rome Kristin Burrus and Janie Fossett of Chattanooga School for the Arts & Sciences — San Francisco James David and Michael Stone of STEM School of Chattanooga — Shanghai and Beijing, China Stacy Hill of STEM School of Chattanooga — Nepal, India, Singapore and China Margaret Hudgins of Center for Creative Arts — London Michelle Collins and Tracy Renfro of Soddy-Daisy Middle — Greece and Italy Thais Campbell and Kelli Solock of Ooltewah Middle — Alaska Emeri Gordon of Hixson Middle and Monica Gordon of Brown Middle — Athens and Rome Anthony Henderson of Soddy-Daisy Middle — Ireland Laura Ellis, Sharon DeVaney, Julie Thomas, Lauren Fisher and Cynthia Connor of Apison Elementary — Guatemala Lisa Eulo of Walker Valley High and Carol Dale of Cleveland High — Burghausen, Germany Athena Davis of Cleveland High — Yad Vashem museum, Jerusalem Stacey Wielfaert of Walker Valley High — France and Spain

Nearly two dozen Hamilton County teachers and four from Bradley County, Tenn., have earned tens of thousands of dollars in grant money to study in the United States and abroad this summer.

The national nonprofit Fund for Teachers provides the funding in partnership with the Public Education Foundation.

The teachers, who will visit more than 12 countries, applied for the grants intended to send them across the globe for learning so they could return and share their knowledge with students.

Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences teachers Kristin Burrus and Janie Fossett earned funding to explore the engineering and architecture of earthquake-resistant buildings in San Francisco.