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Mrs. Edwards from Alameda, CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Student Mail and Reading Center

My students need a Reading & Writing Storage Center and 20 book boxes.

  • $574 goal

This project expired on January 10, 2009.

This project expired on January 10, 2009.

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Mrs. Edwards Ruby Bridges Elementary School
Alameda, CA Grades PreK-2

"A place for everything, and everything in it's place". For many of my students, school is the only place where there is order and predictability, much less any "personal space". These young children come from families who have been recently homeless, and many whose parents are struggling day-to-day with providing the basic necessities of life for their children. School is where they know they will get two meals and a child-centered routine.

One of the items that I have found to be necessary in the classroom is a place for each student to keep his/her own take-home papers/projects. It is like a mailbox...with your own name on it. It helps my students begin to learn to be organized and gives them a bit of space that is their own. I am opening a new classroom this year, and my school does not have the budget for any additional furniture, so I will need to find a way to provide this item myself. I am in California, where the budget issue is affecting schools around the state.

I have found a perfect unit that provides a slot for each child's papers at eye level, and also includes a space to keep each student's current reading level books, which is very useful for my beginning readers.

Your can help provide a truly important personal space for my students this year and for many years to come.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

20 students impacted
Mrs. Edwards Ruby Bridges Elementary School Grades PreK-2

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Alameda, CA View local requests

More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

20 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
TT995 - Book Boxes - Set of 20 • Lakeshore Learning $29.50 1 $29.50
JJ999 - Classic Birch Reading & Writing Storage Center • Lakeshore Learning $349.00 1 $349.00

Materials cost

$378.50

Vendor shipping charges

 $37.85

Sales tax

 $27.44

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.46

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$470.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$103.17

Total project goal

$573.17

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