Your Tax Credits at Work
Prescott Unified School District would like to thank you -- our families and community members -- for your support of our extra-curricular programs by designating your Arizona tax credit to our schools, amounting to $786,051 in 2007 and $747,000 in 2008. Below we have listed uses of your contributions. Without your claiming your tax credit, these programs may not otherwise be available to enhance the education of PUSD students - thank you!
Contributions go directly to the schools, not to the state or the school district.
DISCOVERY GARDENS EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER
-- Supplies and materials for classrooms to enrich student learning
-- Mad Science - a program that provides hands-on science with students
-- Field trips, including Yavapai College Artists in Residence program, a trip to the Yavapai County Fair and the Groom Creek Nature Center
ABIA JUDD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
-- Field Trips to the Ruth Street Theater Productions, put on by high school drama students
-- Artists in Residence performances in the Yavapai College Performance Hall
-- 5th grade overnight camp to Prescott Pines Camp (involves 117 students)
-- Field trips to Grand Canyon for all 4th grade students
-- Science Fair ribbons and plaques
-- Spelling Bee ribbons and plaques
-- After-school clubs throughout the year, including Homework Club, Game Club, Chess Club, Mad Scientists, Rocket Science & History Club, Computer Club, Fit & Fun Factory, Merry Milers, Art Club, Harry Potter Books Club and Radical Readers
-- ASSIST tutoring program
LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
-- Field trips to: Tuzigoot National Monument, Montezuma's Castle, Montezuma's Well, Grand Canyon, State Capital, and local performances at the Elks Theatre and Prescott Fine Arts
-- After-school clubs
-- Artists in Residence at the Yavapai College Performance Hall
-- Supplemental educational programs such as Home Connect for Renaissance Learning
-- Grass Field, in conjunction with PTA funds
MILLER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
-- Gold Mine After-School Clubs
-- Art Club
-- Library
-- Schoolyard Habitat
-- Field trips, Yavapai College performances
-- Playground assistants
-- Supplies for student activities and rewards
TAYLOR HICKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
-- Field trips, including Yavapai College performances and YMCA
-- Incentive awards
-- ASSIST tutoring program
-- After-school clubs, such as Art Club, Bobcat Boot Camp Club (PE), Sign Language Club, Homework Assistance
-- Lexia Reading Assistance Club
WASHINGTON TRADITIONAL SCHOOL
-- Playground equipment
-- Audio/visual equipment for after-school programs
-- Reading books for after-school reading club
-- Schoolyard habitat
-- Field trips to Yavapai College Performance Hall, Tim's Toyota Center, Grand Canyon
-- Various clubs, such as Homework Club, Reading Club and Phonics Club
GRANITE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL
-- Science lab equipment such as frogs, glassware, chemicals, clay, periodic charts, GEMS Plate Techonics (a hands-on activity based unit)
-- Music program: Sheet music, festival fees, entry fees, transportation costs
-- Drama program
PRESCOTT MILE HIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL
-- Advanced Band to Yavapai County Fairgrounds for performance
-- 7th grade blue team to Chapel Rock - team building
-- 7th & 8th Graders Ensemble Festival - Flagstaff
-- Field trips, such as Artists in Residence at the Yavapai College Performance Hall, NAU trip with 30 students for tour of dorms/college life, Waterworld 8th grade incentive trip
-- Geography Bee entrance fee
-- Spelling Bee entrance fee
-- All athletics, clubs, arts and music
NORTHPOINT EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING ACADEMY
-- 160 students on a 5-day Wilderness Trip to Mingus Mountain, Walnut Creek and White Mountains, involving over 15 staff members, food and drink for all students, gear rental, transportation, safety equipment, permits and fees (15 days of travel)
-- 50 students to Los Angeles for a field work opportunity to include Museum of Tolerance, Skirball Center, LaBrea Tar Pits and the Dream Center including community service (4-day trip)
-- 60 students to the Navajo reservation for fieldwork to explore Canyon de Chelly, experience the footsteps of the long walk, meet with tribal representatives and attend a Navajo language based elementary school which included a community service project (4-day trip)
-- 40 students to Central Arizona to Arizona State University, Phoenix Art Museum, Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station and the Mining Museum as a part of the expedition on globalization (3-day trip)
-- Uniforms, fees, supplies, travel costs for the following teams (over 50 students involved) co-ed soccer, indoor soccer, basketball, outdoor club, yearbook, creative writing, history club and more to come
PRESCOTT HIGH SCHOOL
-- Sports equipment, uniforms, everything related to the individual sports
-- Clubs
-- Additional supplies in visual art, music, theater
-- Sheet music
-- Bus transportation to and from special events
-- Purchased a wide range of equipment/instruments
-- Specialized theater equipment (lights, mics etc.)
-- Royalities
-- Rental of specialized theater equipment
-- Make-Up/materials for costumes/costume rental
-- Technology/Texts/Visual Aids
-- Field trips
-- Uniforms/Costumes/Maintance and Cleaning
-- Student scholarships
-- Fee Scholarships
-- Festival/Competition Fees/Travel
-- Guest speakers/Guest artists/workshops
-- Repair broken equipment
KIDS & COMPANY CHILD CARE
-- Healthy snacks for the children
-- Field trips - Kids & Company charges families a minimal fee of $5 per week and tax credit monies supplement the remainder. The children can go on a as many field trips as are offered. In the summer, this is every day; during fall, winter and spring camps, there are one or two a week. Field trips are large part of Kids & Company camps, and without tax credit money we could not offer them.
FRONTIER ROTARY ELEMENTARY SUMMER SCHOOL
-- Tuition scholarships
-- Free book to each child attending Frontier Rotary Summer School
-- Field trips and guest speakers
-- Extra materials for the students in the classrooms
-- Incentive awards