Stuarts Draft High School science teacher Martha Mikell now has five 3-foot skeletons she can use to help teach her anatomy class students.

That’s because Mikell was able to purchase the instructional equipment with a nearly $2,000 grant from the Valley Alliance for Education, a business-education partnership that offers money for creative teacher grants to K-12 teachers in Staunton, Augusta County and Waynesboro each year. Politics

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“It’s amazing to me,’’ Mikell told The News Virginian Aug. 19 at a reception celebrating the grants at Blue Ridge Community College. “It allows you to do things you could not otherwise do.”

Mikell said without the grant program — which she said offered a simple applica

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