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Ms. Lerro from Bronx NY is requesting a class trip through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Making American History Come to Life!

My students need food for our trip to Boston, Massachusetts!

  • $340 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

My educational philosophy is that every child deserves a quality education, regardless of where he or she grows up. I work in a school in the poorest Congressional district in the country. I teach 8th grade English-Language Arts to ESL and special-needs students in a small middle school.

My students are almost all immigrants or children of recent immigrants.

Most have little background knowledge about American history. We have been working very hard this year to fundraise a trip to Boston, Massachusetts. For many, this will be their first time out of the city they grew up in. I love taking my students out on field trips to new places, building their knowledge and language skills while exposing them to new experiences.

My Project

However, due to severe budget cuts, our school cannot give us any money. We have fundraised enough to pay for a bus up there as well as the hotel rooms, but the rest will have to come out of our students' pockets--and many cannot afford this. With your help, we can pay for our dinner in Boston so we don't have to ask our students' parents to stretch already tight budgets. It would an incredible opportunity for my students.

Your help will allow my children to continue their growth and enable our classroom to continue to function on a high level, regardless of heavy budget cuts well out of our control.

My classroom is often a safe haven for my students, away from the tumult of city life and the lowered expectations of naysayers. With your generous donation, my students will be given a chance to continue to flourish even amid difficult circumstances. Thank you from all of us.

Ms. Lerro
Grades 6-8

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Component Company Total
Food McDonalds $250.00

Trip cost

$250.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.75

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$288.75

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$50.96

Total project goal

$339.71

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $339.71

11 Donors

-$339.71

Donations toward project cost

-$288.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$50.96

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 $0.00

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