RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — Hundreds of scholars in Palm Beach County will obtain free, new college provides subsequent week due to the annual Tools for Schools program.

For the twentieth 12 months, Red Apple Supplies, the Education Foundation of Palm Beach County‘s free instructor useful resource retailer, partnered with Publix Super Markets to distribute greater than $201,000 important college provides to lecturers from 120 Title I district colleges.

Teachers and principals drove as much as the Red Apple provide retailer in Riviera Beach as early as 8 a.m. to obtain the provides from volunteers, forming a line lengthy sufficient to wrap across the constructing and proceed down the road.

Volunteers loaded vehicles up with provides whereas others served scorching chocolate and sweets.

Education Foundation Chairman Jim Moore additionally served as a disc jockey for the occasion whereas a barbershop quartet serenaded drivers whereas they waited for the provides. Santa Claus even paid a go to to the occasion.

Palm Beach County Superintendent Michael Burke mentioned the occasion is particularly wanted with one in 5 district college students on the poverty degree.

“This goes a long way to make sure kids have the supplies they need to stay in the classroom,” Burke mentioned.

Dwayne Dennard, the principal of Pahokee center and excessive colleges, seconded Burke’s phrases, emphasizing the necessity for provides.

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Dennard mentioned 99% of the scholars in his two colleges are on a free or lowered meal program, indicating a major monetary want.

“Without these supplies, a lot of our kids cannot reach their full potential,” Dennard mentioned. “There are some kids that we lost because we didn’t have these types of supplies. It’s a great opportunity for parents and students with the way inflation is now.”

The provides distributed included every little thing from notebooks to headphones and extra.

Burke mentioned the provides can be distributed to college students in class subsequent week.