Teachers hopeful for donation

District could receive $30,000 from Tyson Foods

Lorain City Schools teachers are lining up in hopes of scoring educational supplies totaling up to $30,000 from Tyson Foods.

The supplies could come to Lorain Schools through donations from the company.

On April 12, school board members Mark Ballard, Bill Sturgill, Yvonne Johnson, Courtney Nazario and Tim Williams learned of donations in advance of potential awards. The acceptance was recommended by Treasurer Tia Kearney and approved by CEO/Superintendent Jeff Graham.

The food company in 2018 first announced a collaboration with the online giving portal DonorsChoose.org to donate money in communities where Tyson has food processing plants.

“We have a responsibility to support our communities in a variety of ways, including equipping our teachers with the resources they need as an effective way to support education,” said Debra Vernon, senior director, corporate social responsibility, Tyson Foods. “Through the DonorsChoose.org model teachers can focus on the individual needs of their classrooms and students can experience new or better ways to learn.”

Teachers could ask for up to $1,000 toward needed supplies through DonorsChoose.org, a website started in 2000 to match donors with public school projects happening at the classroom level.

The items, values that the teachers are seeking, and their schools, are:

• STEM supplies, $1,000, General Johnnie Wilson Middle School.

• Gardening Supplies, $1,000, General Johnnie Wilson Middle School.

• Occulus Quest Units, $1,197, at Southview Middle School.

• Supplies, $582.71, the Special Education students at Southview Middle School.

• Library Maker Space and Reading , $1,000, at Garfield Elementary School.

• Math Manipulatives, $537.33, Toni Morrison Elementary School.

• Current events/reading/social studies supplies, $551, Toni Morrison Elementary School.

• Reading/writing/math materials, $541, Toni Morrison Elementary School.

• Learning Materials and supplies, $663, Toni Morrison Elementary School.

• Student Rewards such as trinkets, books and prizes, $750, Toni Morrison

Elementary School.

• Library Maker Space and reading supplies, $1,000, Toni Morrison Elementary School.

• Drum-n-Stone Bucket Kit, $818.29, Hawthorne Elementary School.

• Library supplies , $358.57, Washington Elementary School.

• Two Regular diatonic xylophones, $727.86, Garfield Elementary School.

• Ukulele set $1,109.97, Larkmoor Elementary School.

• Quirkles-Everything Bundle $1,300, Larkmoor Elementary School.

• Accelerated reader books and supplies , $954.26, Admiral King Elementary School.

• Safety patrol supplies, $667, Admiral King Elementary School.

• Communication and sensory items, $401, Admiral King Elementary School.

• Library diversity books, $500.58, Palm Elementary School.

• Math and science supplemental materials, $772, Palm Elementary School.

• Ellison machine die cuts for pre-academic development, $1,000, for preschool students at Palm Elementary School.

• Supplies, $1,000, Lorain High School.

• Sewing/embroidery machine and supplies, $900, Lorain High School.

• 30 copies of “Write Like This,” $1,100, Lorain High School.

• Custom T-Shirts $300, for the Write for Rights/Social Justice Club students at Lorain High School.

• Class set of Books & SEL resources $924, Success Academy students at Lorain High School.

• IPad, case and Apple Pencil, $610, for Success Academy at Lorain High School.

• Food, cart, sweeper and refrigerator to start a mobile food pantry, $1,000, Success Academy, Lorain High School.

• One-year study.com subscription, $562, Success Academy at Lorain High School.

• Books and learning resources, $999.65, the Success Academy at Lorain High School.

• Snacks and personal items $1,000, Success Academy at Lorain High School.

• Monetary donation from Church on the North Coast, $1,200 to be used for snacks and incentives for the students at Admiral King Elementary School.

• 15 Boogie boards, Blackboard letter paperless notepad, $509.85, Admiral King Elementary.

• Measuring wheels and clinometers, $1,000, Lorain High School.

• Math and science supplemental materials $772, Palm Elementary School.

• Sewing/embroidery machine and supplies, $900, Leo Club at Lorain High School.

• Passport binding machine and supplies, $950, Pep Club Lorain High School.

The board review was the second this year to approve the potential donations through the Tyson Foods program.