Sun reporter wins another award for series

Monday, June 12, 2000 | 11:19 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Las Vegas Sun reporter Benjamin Grove has won a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers for a May 1999 series, "Story of a Fourth Grade Class." The association held its annual awards ceremony in Washington on Friday.

Grove, formerly the Sun's education reporter, spent a year visiting a fourth grade class at Helen Jydstrup Elementary School in southwest Las Vegas. The series offered a daily diary that touched on different issues experienced by many schools in Clark County, such as crowded classrooms and high rates of student transiency.

Grove won two other awards for the series: the Benjamin Fine Award for Outstanding Education Reporting, awarded by the National Association of Secondary School Principals; and the Fairbanks Award for Public Service for mid-sized newspapers, awarded by the Associated Press of California and Nevada.

The New Jersey-based Association of Educational Publishers, commonly called Ed Press, is a 105-year-old umbrella organization of publishers, associations and media from across the education field. Members include education publications, software publishers, education and trade press and school districts nationwide.

There were 10 other entrants in the series category.

Grove is now the Sun's Washington, D.C., reporter.

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