US school board sells ad space on report cards

[Earth_First]

WASHINGTON — Faced with stinging budget cuts, a county school board in the Rocky Mountain state of Colorado is selling advertising space on report cards to help make ends meet.

Jefferson County Public Schools expects to make $90,000 over three years from Collegeinvest, a college savings plan, for the two-inch (five-centimeter) ads on report cards issued by its 91 elementary schools.

With 86,000 students from kindergarten to senior high school, the Jefferson County School Board -- based in Golden city, the home of the famous Coors brewery -- already sells advertising space on its buses to a local bank.

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