Portal enables donors to help Harveystricken schools

By ED STERLING

AUSTIN — Texas Education Commissioner Morath on Oct. 17 announced that school systems needing instructional materials — either because of enrollment of students displaced by Hurricane Harvey or from property damage caused by the hurricane — can create an online list for donors to access.

Potential donors can find the lists through the Texas Education Agency’s Instructional Materials Assistance web page: https://tea.texas.gov/Academics/Hurricane_Harvey_ Instructional_Materials_Assistance/. “From the initial days of the hurricane, many people have stepped forward wanting to help. The TEA Instructional Materials Assistance web page provides a way to see what school districts truly need and then allow for those needs to be met,” Morath said.

Morath called the electronic system a type of “wedding registry” where school districts can post their instructional materials needs. Donors can elect to fulfill a district’s needs list completely or in part, and the agency’s educational materials ordering system updates the list to help avoid duplication of supply donations.

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