Home > California > Los Angeles > Los Angeles Community
LAUSD Partners with Donors Choose
doritSL November 22, 2011
I found out about the program via a robo call a week ago. So far my kids teachers have not hit us up to support something in their classrooms. I wonder if teh funds can go to a friends group or PTA?
My hats off to who every set this up- with all the students in LAUSD this is like $1.5 or so million for the district. I wonder if the way it is being distruberted is the smartes way to go. I would have reather seen each school get $15.00 per student and let a school committe made up of parents, teachers and students, decided how the money is used. 74987
MagnetMom November 23, 2011
The program is to promote Donors Choose, so unfortunately for teachers, there is that extra step of creating projects and the limitations of the Donors Choose program itself.
The upside, is that in some cases, well-thought-out projects can reach out and touch people to donate who aren't from a specific school (the Starbucks/Donors Choose cards are available in January.
In the meantime, a few tech-savvy teachers can create a few joint projects for the benefit of the whole school.74995
doritSL December 22, 2011
so far only 2 teachers at my daughters middle school have posted on Donors Choose (and they were there before this new program). I also tried looking up her former grade school (thinking I would give them our $15.00 if the middle school is not doign what it should) and the grade school had no progects posted! Such a sham75445
MagnetMom December 22, 2011
That's horrible, dorit. My daughter's school finally posted most of the teacher requests, and she was even able to skip a homework assignment in exchange for her choosing her teacher's project. I was less than thrilled about that aspect, but truthfully I wanted her to choose anyway, so be it.
Please make sure you contact your local district and let the district know that your schools are missing out on a huge opportunity. Our principal really pushed and it took awhile but nearly every teacher had something posted by the last week of school.75446
