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Ms. Rizzo from New Haven, CT is requesting flexible seating through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Let’s Take a Seat

Help me give my students safe seats. Class of 27-28 students need chairs that properly support them. Chairs have collapsed with students seated in them.

  • $2,984 goal

This project expired on October 29, 2025.

This project expired on October 29, 2025.

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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 Project

Students do not have seats that support their bodies in my classroom. Chairs have given out on small and large students during class. This is not safe. Classes are large with 27-28 students. While students are participating in exciting science lab investigations chairs have given out. This is unsafe and stressful for science students, and myself. The only chairs available have an extremely low weight limit. Classes of 7th and 8th graders would greatly benefit from new strong chairs. My inquisitive middle school students deserve to sit on structurally sound chairs during each class. The chairs currently being used are lacking. Larger students require a chair of greater strength to support them properly. I love providing my students with intellectually engaging scientific investigations and observing their eagerness to learn during numerous lessons.

Ms. Rizzo Ross Woodward Magnet School Grades 6-8

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all 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

Never Before Funded 100 students impacted

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Flash Furniture HERCULES Series Plastic Shell Stack Chair, Black/Chrome (RUT18BKCHR) • Quill.com $88.19 28 $2,469.32

Materials cost

$2,469.32

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$37.04

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$2,536.36

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$447.59

Total project goal

$2,983.95

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