OPUSD raises over $22,000





After sending out a letter to nearly 4,000 students asking for donations to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina, the Oak Park Unified School District raised over $22,000 for the hurricane relief effort, according to school officials.

“One of the moral imperatives of the Oak Park Unified School District is to ensure that our students develop a sense of social responsibility on a local, national and global level,” OPUSD Superintendent Tony Knight wrote in the letter. “As our children went off to school ast week, children in the Gulf region sought shelter and struggled for their lives. Who knows when, where or if they will ever start school this year?”

Knight said while many have already donated to the relief effort, the district’s fundraising drive is an “opportunity for our students to contribute.”

The letter also reminded Oak Park parents to be prepared in he event of a natural disaster in California.


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