Muskogee Teachers Receive Much-Needed School Supplies Thanks To Local Organizations, Community
The start of school is around the corner, and educators across Oklahoma are scrambling to get school supplies. So, the Muskogee community and local organizations wanted to do something good to make the lives of hundreds of teachers a little easier. This is awesome! said Muskogee first grade teacher Sharika Cole. Cole couldn t stop smiling as she filled up a wagon full of free supplies for her classroom. I am just so appreciative that people thought enough of us to donate such wonderful things. I mean my basket is just over running it’s crazy, Cole said with a smile.
Dec 18, 2020
Former NASCAR racer Jimmie Johnson is helping get books into the homes of Muskogee school children.
Muskogee Public Schools librarians received a $54,455 Champions Grant from the Jimmie Johnson Foundation to fund book distribution for children. Librarians have had three or four book giveaways every year, said New Tech at Cherokee Elementary librarian Gina Batie, who wrote the grant application. Most of the books had been donated out of Feed the Children Teacher Store out of Oklahoma City. But we always have to borrow the supplies to host the book giveaways. We don t have folding tables. We don t have any kind of sound system where anyone can hear us. We pitched together to buy a banner.