The school district joins a national movement to provide equal access to period supplies. MsReads via 19thnews
, the education foundation for the district. “Sometimes for students that causes absences from class or other interruptions to their academic learning when we could be providing this as a basic need for them. So I think it does impact students from low-income communities in a greater sense, but I think it will help all students and hopefully just reduce a barrier.”
“We have a very generous community that supports our kids in lots of different ways, but the district really saw it not as something that should be donor funded, but something that should be funded out of our operations budget because it is meeting a need,” Boswell said. Snow White, mother of a sixth grader and an Austin Ed Fund board member, started pushing for free period products at all Austin ISD campuses during the pandemic.
The school quickly installed trash cans inside the stalls, and White donated a cabinet filled with period products. But she didn’t want to stop there. White began asking around, finding out that only some Austin schools had products available. She was willing to fundraise through Austin Ed Fund, but the district decided to purchase items on its own, declaring them necessities for students.
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