Missoula’s Franklin Elementary School earns national honors

There’s no money or library books or new computers associated with winning a 2006 Blue Ribbon School award.

That’s what makes it so special for Franklin Elementary School. Its staff and students see it as a straightforward recognition of a job well done. That the recognition comes from state and federal education officials and goes to just two other schools in Montana doesn’t hurt either.

By ROB CHANEY of the Missoulian

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