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These books were much needed and your support came at the perfect time!","fullyFundedDate":1734197238107,"projectUrl":"project/beyond-bilingual/9000819/","projectTitle":"Beyond Bilingual","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Cantu","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9870925_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y316&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1733890709761","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9870925"},{"teacherId":9870925,"projectId":9000789,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your very kind donations. Your funding has helped make my classroom a welcoming environment where my students and I can learn and work together. \r\nMy students and I were very excited to get to open the boxes of different supplies that we received and we immediately started putting them to good use.\r\nBy providing us with flip chart paper we have been able to practice our annotations to get ready for our state testing. My students were struggling to understand how our paper should be set up when doing our screen to scratch but by providing us with these materials we have been able to create group projects where we set up our screen to scratch models. \r\nApart from that, I have also been able to provide my students with anchor charts for both math and reading. My students have been able to reference these anchor charts and have made great progress with their reading and math goals. 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Your support plays a crucial role in making these valuable reading materials accessible to our children, helping to cultivate their imaginations and expand their knowledge in a fun and engaging way. \r\n\r\nThank you once again for your commitment to supporting early literacy development!","fullyFundedDate":1740226954193,"projectUrl":"project/2025-texas-2x2-books/9109282/","projectTitle":"2025 Texas 2X2 Books","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. DeFord","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp52476_orig.jpg?crop=272,272,x244,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1559070439536","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/52476"},{"teacherId":52476,"projectId":9109166,"letterContent":"I appreciate the generous funding allocated for the purchase of books from the Texas Bluebonnet list for our elementary school library. 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About this school
B.H. Macon Elementary School is
an urban public school
in Dallas, Texas that is part of Dallas Independent School District.
It serves 501 students
in grades Pre-K - 5 with a student/teacher ratio of 14.3:1.
Its teachers have had 30 projects funded on Ðǿմ«Ã½.
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of students receive free or reduced price lunch
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
Source: the National Center for Education Statistics
95%
of students are Black, Latino, Native
American, or Asian
Data about school demographics comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. The numbers in this chart may not add up to 100% because of limitations in the available data.
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B.H. Macon Elementary School
$12,564
raised using Ðǿմ«Ã½
30
projects
funded
15
teachers
funded
79
donors
5
projects
for
basic supplies
8
projects for
technology
8
projects for
books
B.H. Macon Elementary School has received support from
51 individuals from Texas and
28 individuals out-of-state.