This is an excerpt of On Assignment, education writer Theresa
Harrington's blog on Contra Costa County schools. Read more and
post comments at IBAbuzz.com/onassignment. Follow her at
Twitter.com/tunedtotheresa. DonorsChoose.org is a cool website
that allows members of the community to support projects in
local schools that are posted by teachers who can't afford to
buy all the supplies necessary to implement them. But time is
running out for teachers to post their projects. The deadline is
Nov. 30. Here is more (excerpted) information about how the
website began, from founder Charles Best: "Fueling Your School
Fuels the Economy During my career as a teacher, I saw firsthand
that all schools are not created equal. My colleagues and I
spent a lot of our own money on copy paper and pencils, but we
often couldn't afford the resources that would get our students
excited about learning. We'd talk about books our students
should read, a field trip we wanted to take, or a microscope
that would bring science to life.