Moran Scores $100k for Mt. Daniel School

The Falls Church Education Foundation (FCEF) announced yesterday at its efforts to secure $100,000 in federal funds to assist the Falls Church City Schools were successfully secured by Rep. Jim Moran of Northern Virginia, senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee. The funds come as part of the Housing and Urban Development component of the omnibus Transportation/Housing Appropriations bill (H.R. 3058), and will be used to assist new construction at the Mt. Daniel Elementary School.

Moran also secured funds in the bill for a number of other Northern Virginia projects, including $1 million to expand Alexandria’s bus system, $400,000 for a bus transfer facility on Lee Highway in Arlington, $650,000 to the Whitman-Walker Clinic for AIDS prevention and treatment, $1.5 million for “clean fleet” Metro buses in the D.C. area, $800,000 for improvements to the 14th Street Bridge, among others.

Moran and his two Northern Virginia colleagues, Rep. Tom Davis and Rep. Frank Wolf, worked together to secure another $30 million in the bill for the Metro rail to Dulles Airport, bringing the total federal funding share to $210 million to date.

In the science appropriations bill (H.R. 2862), Moran secured funding of $300,000 for the Tahirih Justice Center in Falls Church which provides legal, social and medical referral services to immigrant women and girls victimized by gender-based violence. He also obtained $175,000 for the Hispanic Committee of Virginia to fund after school and English language proficiency programs for children.

In other FCEF news, the Falls Church non-profit announced the award of $4,500 in grants to innovative programs at Falls Church’s Mt. Daniel Elementary and Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School. They include the “Families Read Aloud Together” at-home read-aloud program offered to kindergartners and first graders and their parents, and the “Artist in Resident” program in which Sculptor Kevin Reese works with all middle school students to create an Alexander Calder-inspired mobile for the entrance to the new Henderson Middle School.