At a time when every dollar counts, the Fontana Unified School District received a "really big check" from the Fontana Area Chamber of Commerce.  At the January 19, 2011 Board of Education Meeting, Jan Hudson, Board President of the Fontana Area Chamber of Commerce, presented the district with $2,000 in mini-grants for teachers as part of the Chamber's Best BET (Business and Education Together) Program.

"The Best BET Program has been in place for seven years," said Superintendent Cali Olsen-Binks.  "The Chamber of Commerce sponsors the Best BET program.  It's a program where our teachers can apply for grants for instructional support in their classrooms:  sometimes it might be a school garden, other times it has been different chemistry projects - it's been community service projects.  They've awarded over $125,000 to Fontana over the past seven years.  One of their biggest donors is Learning Plus Associates.  They have a very strict committee that reviews all of the applications and they go through the process of choosing our recipients"