Education Notes: Marana School District receives $20K Monsanto grant

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The Monsanto Fund, the philanthropic arm of the Monsanto Co., has awarded the Marana Unified School District a $20,000 grant to provide cognitive coaching training for teaching and technology coaches.

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New Monsanto facility stirs up controversy near Marana

January 9th 2017

TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) -
Southern Arizona residents have another chance to share their feelings about a new controversial development on its way unincorporated Pima County near Marana.

Monsanto is getting ready to build a 7-acre greenhouse facility in the area, and now, Pima County supervisors want to hear what the public has to say about it.

Critics decry tax breaks as Monsanto plans Marana greenhouse

Nov 19, 2016

A typical zoning hearing for a 7-acre subdivision doesn’t draw more than a handful of protesters — mainly people who live close by.

But on Tuesday, the Pima County Board of Supervisors expects to hear hours of objections to a 7-acre greenhouse that global biotech giant Monsanto Co. wants to put in rural Avra Valley, northwest of Tucson. Critics are upset not just about Monsanto’s plans to operate here, but also about County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry’s support of incentives that would reduce the company’s property taxes by two-thirds.

Fact check: Monsanto’s planned greenhouse

Jan 17, 2017

The topic of Monsanto building a greenhouse in Pima County near Marana has caused quite a stir. Both opponents and proponents of the project have been quite vocal, but there has also been a lot of misinformation about the project.

Monsanto has already purchased 155 acres in the Avra Valley near Twin Peaks and Sanders roads for a proposed 7-acre greenhouse to develop new varieties of corn seed. According to Pima County Economic Development Deputy Director Patrick Cavanaugh as long as Monsanto follows federal and state regulations, they are free to build and operate the facility. There is nothing the Pima County Board of Supervisors can do to either approve or prevent Monsanto from coming.