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Scenario

How school fundraising creates hidden costs that exclude low-income families

My daughter's school fundraiser expects every family to contribute two hundred dollars and I cannot afford it but I also cannot let her be the only kid whose family did not participate.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Educational equity is undermined when schools rely on family contributions that not all families can provide.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Class and structural disadvantage?”

Peri

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