The school library at Port Jervis Middle School landed a grant from the Orange-Ulster BOCES School Library System Council: $1,000 to buy board games. Lisa Perkowski secured the grant, and plans to make the games available for students to play. They'll also be available to classrooms, or, as she says,

Teachers can sign them out to use in class to reinforce concepts in a nontraditional way or as a reward to reinforce learning that has already taken place.

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