Ep 77 | FREE Classroom Supplies? Tools for Teachers

SPEAKER_00 0:00

For me, it was my heart has always been like, how do we serve? How do we help support what's really happening, the real mission inside the classroom? And that's to take care of these kids and take care of these teachers. So, yeah, about a year and a half ago, I just had this like, man, we there's gotta be something else we can do. And I wanted to create a teacher resource store that allowed teachers at the time to spend their own money.

SPEAKER_01 0:29

Welcome to the Voices United in Education podcast. Each week we showcase the teachers, administrators, and community members who go the extra mile to contribute to the success of every student in Escambie County. You'll meet the real people behind the titles and learn about the amazing resources to support every student's success. Every parent wants their kid to have the best quality education possible. And we all know that having the proper tools is essential. Whether it's crayons and safety scissors or tablets and graphing calculators, no one wants kids and teachers losing precious time learning due to classroom shortages. But how do we ensure every classroom has what it needs without teachers buying their own supplies? My next guests are two employees who united to solve the problem from two sides of a widespread problem. One from the logistical side and the other from the fundraising side. Today they're going to share how the Tools for Teachers initiative, born in 2022, may help every public school student in Escambia County and reassure every parent. Passionate for kids, problem solving for good, unlikely super duo, David Gardner and Joe MacArthur. I love that. You really are the unlikely super duo. I think, you know, next Halloween, I that should be somehow incorporated into your Halloween costume plans.

SPEAKER_00 1:57

I think we could do that. I think so.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

Yeah. So let's start talking about your superpowers, aka your titles and roles in the district. So, Joe, let's start with you. What's what is your title and how does that play out in the daily for you? So people listening kind of can get a feel for where you're at.

SPEAKER_03 2:15

Okay. I'm the executive director of the Iskami County Public Schools Foundation. We are a separate 501c3 that's a direct support organization of the Iskemi County Public Schools. So all of the funds that we raise support initiatives align with the strategic plan, et cetera, with Iskemi County Public Schools. That looks like to me in my daily life is a different day every day, a different hour every hour. My main job is to raise money, but I also wear most of the hats. I recently had hired some help, but I've worn every hat for 18 months from the fundraising, marketing internally and externally to the community and within the district. A lot of FaceTime being known in the community, tying my name to the public school system and being the fundraising arm of that, talking about what it is we do and why we do it, because most people inside the district and in the community did not know that we even existed. I learned quickly when I got my role. I network a lot and we also apply for grants. And then we had to manage those funds when they commence. There's a lot of collaboration and detailed bookkeeping around those things. We do events and programs for schools and teachers within the district. We do grants for teachers. This this Tools for Teachers is something that we're doing to support. We support Teacher of the Year. We do Mira and Academic Awards for Seniors. So we have a lot of programs as well. So every day I'm kind of juggling what's the top priority of the day.

SPEAKER_01 3:50

Yeah, that's a lot. I didn't know that this was a thing until we s we talked.

SPEAKER_03 3:55

I know we need to have another day that's just talked about all that we do because it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

I don't disagree with that because it is a lot. And I find that your role specifically is unique because you're not just doing the fundraising, you're doing the needs assessment, if I'm hearing you right.

SPEAKER_03 4:10

And execution, absolutely. I mean, like I was on the phone in the car with um someone from Sandy Sansing's office about donating for the upcoming foundation's employee appreciation family fund day, December 2nd. And that's just something I decided to do last year with the superintendent, and we did it last year as a movie night. And this year it's a big family fund day, December 2nd, coming up. So we're still out there raising money for that and coordinating what's going to happen that day.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 4:36

So lots of stuff going on.

SPEAKER_01 4:38

That's a lot of moving pieces. Okay, David. Back to tools for teachers. No, I mean it's all part of it. That's what I think is so neat is because if you don't know what the individuals are doing, then it's hard to conceptualize what the program is because then it's just something floating out there in space that doesn't have any real roots. It has a root. It has a lot of roots. And when you, I think as a a person who's not in the school system, you know, as an employee or as maybe even a volunteer, they wouldn't know that. And so what I love about Arch, the chance to sit down and talk with you is that we can really create something that feels more tangible, more accessible, and we can also appreciate what we have and be able to tell other people about it. Because if there's a great program out there and no one knows about it, then what's the point of it? So so, David, tell me what your superpowers are because the laundry list is also very long.

SPEAKER_00 5:38

Well, if I had to tell you what my superpowers were, I would tell you I'm a father and uh a husband first.

SPEAKER_01 5:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 5:44

But no, I'm the director of warehouse operations for the school district. We deal with on a daily basis, we deliver food to every single cafeteria, the instructional materials, including textbooks and Chromebooks, over the summer, as well as everything down from the paper to the pens and paper clips, all that kind of stuff. We we we ship all that to directly to the teachers uh classrooms. We we handle all of the air filters for the entire skilled school district. We handle all of the maintenance materials that that come through, including all the whiteboards and things like that, all the custodial materials. It the laundry list is pretty big and we we deal with a lot of stuff, a lot of crosstalk things. We save a lot of money for schools by having them ship it to us and us deliver it for them.

SPEAKER_01 6:27

And that part's major. I know you kind of just said, and you know, we kind of save some money, but you're more than the Amazon Prime for the school district. I mean, you are personally the procurement person, which is a huge deal. That means for people who don't know, that you buy the stuff. And so that is an incredible load of decisions every single day. You move over a million dollars in stuff every month, correct?

SPEAKER_00 6:51

Yeah, very yeah, about $1.2 million a month right now.

SPEAKER_01 6:54

That is huge. And the money saving part, we're definitely gonna touch on because that's where like the genius of this combo comes through. So, and actually, it was your thought if we're gonna try to t take a linear approach to the to the origin story, to use my superhero theme again to this program. So, when was this idea sparked for you?

SPEAKER_00 7:17

For me, it was a couple of years ago through uh some other things that we do, like stuff the bus and everything like that. We we really saw a need and we we started to hear from teachers on a yearly basis, not just at the beginning of the year, but throughout the entire year, like we need this, we need this, we need this. And for me, it was my heart has always been like, How do we serve? How do we help support what's really happening, the real mission inside the classroom? And that's to take care of these kids and take care of these teachers. So, yeah, about a year and a half ago, I just had this like, man, we there's gotta be something else we can do. And I wanted to create a teacher resource store that allowed teachers at the time to spend their own money at the at the warehouse and to find an avenue for that. And through conversation and everything like that, it was like, oh, well, you need to talk to Joe MacArthur. And I was like, I'm gonna talk to Joe MacArthur. So I one day I showed up into her office and we just sat down. I was like, Joe, I got this idea. And that's where it really just kind of blossomed right there. And I said, within a time.

SPEAKER_01 8:16

I have the same idea. So it was kind of what's the word, providence a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 8:21

Totally. I had just been to a state conference for other executive directors of foundations, and we toured a teacher resource store, a brick and mortar building in South Florida that's highly successful. And I came back thinking, I want to do something like that. And I was kicking around in my head, how how can I make this happen? We're probably not gonna be able to afford a brick and mortar building. What can work? Uh Dave comes into my office and says, I'm thinking about a teacher resource store.

SPEAKER_02 8:47

And I'm like, Me too.

SPEAKER_03 8:48

Um, so it was pretty cool. We started a conversation about a year and a half ago. Right. It was pretty quick. I was pretty new in my role. And we both were like, We could make this work. So we started talking about it, meeting about it pretty regularly. We'd let it lie for a couple of months and then like, um, I had this idea. What do you think? And then we just sort of organically grew it. We did some research, but we kind of came up with the model on our own, how it would work for us.

SPEAKER_00 9:13

Yeah. Everybody around us has like that brick and mortar teacher resource store. We were really wanting to, well, we have the warehouse, how do we utilize that space? Why don't we just do an online store? So that's why we came up with the idea to create an online teacher resource store. And then that that's pretty much where we are right now, and that's gonna launch come up here in January for about a thousand teachers or so.

SPEAKER_03 9:35

That's so exciting. Yes. And we were like, okay, well, what do we stock in the store? We can't put everything in the warehouse in the store. And how much is it gonna cost us? And we want to do it, I wanted to do it what didn't cost the teacher anything. I wanted it to be free. And so we talked about that and what resources we could pull together. And we surveyed, I surveyed the teachers, not all of them, uh a group of them over the summer and said, How much of your own money do you spend? Where do you typically spend it? And what do you spend it on? And I gave them a list of traditional and non-traditional supplies. There were probably about 50 things on the list, and probably between two and three hundred teachers responded, and we got our list was pretty consistent. Like we came up with very consistent very we came up with about a dozen items that you know it was all in the 90th percentile and above for those particular items that they all wanted.

SPEAKER_00 10:28

It seemed like all the teachers were buying all the same materials. It was like what? It was just like, oh, like we can do that.

SPEAKER_03 10:34

Paper and pencils and erasers and dry erase markers, paper towels, hand sanitizer, band-aids, ziploc bags, healthy snacks for their students.

SPEAKER_01 10:45

I mean, those are that's a pretty unglamorous list. I was expecting you to be like, you know, iPads and digital, you know, tools.

SPEAKER_03 10:53

So in a conversation I had earlier today, asking about what does the district actually supply to teachers? And we can get into that a little bit. But one of the things they always supply is their technology. So teachers are not spending their money on that. I do know through our grant program that teachers write grants to have specialized supplies come in that the school district, but that's highly unusual. Most of those technology needs are taken care of through the school system. But the list is pretty kind of generic, a couple of surprise things. And we've learned some things along the way. Yeah, for sure. To add to the list, but it's pretty consistent at what they're spending their money on.

SPEAKER_01 11:31

I love that you asked them because how many times does someone have an idea like this, and then they decide what the other person or the other group of people need and how powerful it is that you, you know, listened. I know it's probably very no big deal for you, but for the teachers, it is a big deal. Do you have a sense of how much money on average each teacher spends?

SPEAKER_03 11:56

We asked that and we broke it down by how much they spend. 50% of them spend $500 or more per year on their classroom. What? Yes. And there was a group, uh, $200 and under, and there were some between three and five hundred, but fifty percent of them landed at five hundred dollars or more. That's a plane ticket. I know.

SPEAKER_00 12:16

It's significant.

SPEAKER_03 12:17

I mean, and if you are a a a young teacher starting out, and that's a lot of money. I mean, you're juggling rent and your car payment and getting to school, and now I have to have s clothes to wear to work, and I'm buying healthy stacks for my students out of my paycheck as a brand new teacher.

SPEAKER_01 12:34

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 12:34

So I think it's very powerful. We saw that. We get to see that.

SPEAKER_00 12:38

We did see it, and it was um and it's it was moving. To me, it was very moving.

SPEAKER_03 12:41

It was yeah, it was very important to me that we paid attention and knew what they wanted because I'm not a teacher. So I could guess, but to get it from them and then be able to carry those items um is pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01 12:54

So this would be a good time for me to ask you why teachers end up spending so much of their own money on their classrooms, why those basic things like paper, pencils, highlighters aren't provided for them always.

SPEAKER_03 13:07

Traditionally, school supplies are provided by the students, the parents. Kids bring supplies to school to start the school year, and families that can afford it do that, and then they restock their kids' supplies if they need something during the year. The socio economic situation in Scambia County does not allow for that. We have uh probably more than 50% of our families are in poverty and cannot purchase school supplies, so they're dependent to get on there, get those when they get to school and that be in their classroom. The state of Florida this year mandated that every state teacher gets $300 at the beginning of school to spend in their classroom. And that $300 has to be 100% spent on classroom instruction. So most of the materials they're using is to set up their classroom, their bulletin boards, the things that they're gonna use to teach, possibly getting the supplies they need on their own desk, tape dispenser, stapler, scissors, basic stuff. But that money goes really fast. $300 does not bite much, especially in the economy today. So we do have stuff the bus and some private donors that give things to schools and to the district. And schools do get a supply budget based on their student count every year. But that goes to the principal and to the school, and the principal makes the decision how to disperse that or what to buy. And so if there's some things in particular they have to have the basic supplies, they may not be buying Ziploc bags, they may not be buying tri erasure markers, they may not be buying the eraser tips to go on the pencils that little ones erase all day long. So those are the kind of things and the snacks part is our k our kids come to school hungry. We do most of them that need it get breakfast and lunch at school. If you're late to school for whatever reason, mom slept in or you missed the bus or whatever, you missed breakfast and that kid has to go until lunch with nothing to eat. We pick things that are on the FDA approved list for the school district to to put on the list for their healthy snacks. And they can order that now instead of buying them themselves, and it's an approved item. And they can give the kid a granola bar or some fruit snacks or some cheeses. Or some cheeses, which apparently is a big deal. Cheez-its are a big deal. So I think we're meeting a need that's out there for sure. There's a gap in what the state provides and county provides in Escambia County in particular.

SPEAKER_01 15:37

So But it sounds like these supplies that you're able to procure are not the leftover supplies. Like when I was in school, which granted was a minute ago. If I Mine was 10 minutes ago. 10, exactly. Yes. Yours was a minute, mine was 10. Oh, yours was 10. Well, yeah. Mine was close to that. So it the leftover supplies, you know, if I ran out of crayons, let's say, I would get kind of what were they called? You know, the bobo crayons that were like real waxy. Right. And then, you know, it like if you if you dropped them, oh man, you were done. Like, and you were halfway color through your color project, the red crayon of the Bobo crayon is not going to be the same as the crayola. So I mean, what what kind of quality supplies are we talking about for the kids?

SPEAKER_00 16:26

Um Crayola, uh, Sharpie, Expo. We carry true red paper um from Georgia Pacific, that kind of stuff. It we're we're not looking at materials as far as, I guess, more how you how do you say it's you don't you're not buying cheap stuff. I'm not buying cheap stuff, but at the same time, we're not trying to like say, oh, well, the cheap stuff is so cheap that we're just not gonna buy it. We go through a process where we bid out these items and we allow our vendors to start kind of competing, if you will. Um, and then whenever you start to purchase something by a pallet load or by a truckload, like we buy our paper by a truckload, and we'll go call our vendor and say, hey, I'm gonna buy five five loads of of paper. And then we turn around and look at the price and we go, okay. Right now on the shelf for that same ream of paper is like almost $9.99, $10.99. And we turn around and we're we get it into the warehouse for three dollars and some change. So we we are able to stretch that dollar a lot further than if you were to go buy it off of a shelf.

SPEAKER_03 17:28

That's the beauty of this partnership because I'm raising the money for him to buy the products for the tools for teachers, and he can buy it at such a discounted right rate. So that $100 of your own money as a teacher now is worth $350 worth of supplies.

SPEAKER_00 17:45

Correct.

SPEAKER_03 17:46

So that's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00 17:48

I think it's great.

SPEAKER_01 17:49

Yeah. And you do those negotiations?

SPEAKER_00 17:51

I do not do all of them. No. You do a lot of them. I I have a a very good, very good staff that goes through and does all of the bids and quotes for us.

SPEAKER_01 18:00

And that's really what makes this so unique, this program, right? Because it's when we do stuff the bus, that's really cool because the community isn't getting is getting involved, but they're getting their stuff for at retail price, full price, probably. We don't know for sure, but probably. And the quality is gonna be varied. The number of um supplies that are actually on the supply needed list are gonna be, you know, a wild card card. Yes. But what's so cool about this is I think didn't you tell me that each teacher last year in on your program got over $300 worth of stuff for that was this year.

SPEAKER_03 18:36

We just launched this program in at the end of September. So this just happened.

SPEAKER_00 18:42

We had 166 teachers. I think we had added four more. So we had 170. Uh, we had 170 teachers that were part of the start program, brand new teachers. Uh, we delivered three boxes per teacher at us. For us, it was around sixty-eight to seventy dollars per I guess you could call order, but it came out to about three hundred and fifty dollars worth of retail value.

SPEAKER_03 19:05

And he shopped it. He did the comparison shopping, what every item would cost if they went and bought it. He did it at like three places, so we knew what it would cost retail. And then he did a sheet so the teachers could see this is how much it costs at warehouse price, and this is how much it would have cost you in a store. Um, so I'm gonna tell the next part. You can jump in. We're so excited. So we decided to do this. Dave and I got together and said, okay, what's a reasonable amount? If we give them every item on the list, the brand new teachers, what's a reasonable amount of each thing? Like how many rolls of paper towels do they need, that kind of thing. And he put these boxes together. Well, school district employees help pack boxes. We had volunteers.

SPEAKER_00 19:45

We did.

SPEAKER_03 19:45

It was that was a really cool thing. But we packed the stuff and we had the list of teachers. They actually have a sticker on them that says, and they go directly to them with teacher name and school and their code so Dave can deliver them. So it feels like a gift. It feels they didn't know it was going to show up.

SPEAKER_01 20:01

This is way better than the Amazon delivery truck from your house.

SPEAKER_03 20:04

So it just showed up at their classroom. And so when we did our big press conference and release, and one of the people in the press said, We can't be there that day. Can we go with you to a school to see a teacher opening her boxes? And David and I were like, Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 20:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:20

So we went the next Monday morning. He and I met there. We had the superintendent come by, and we actually took the boxes to that school to the teach brand new teachers.

SPEAKER_00 20:30

I think they had four.

SPEAKER_03 20:32

Four or five. Four or five new teachers. And we went in this classroom with this the stuff on a I mean, it's a lot. We couldn't carry it. It's on a cart. And the teacher was like, Oh my God. And our kids were in the classroom and they opened it all up and like every item she pulled out, the kids would go, yay.

SPEAKER_00 20:48

It was awesome. Yeah. I mean, from the very basic things from like the paper to the the pencils, the colored pencils.

SPEAKER_03 20:55

We got comments like, it feels like Christmas.

SPEAKER_00 20:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:58

I mean, it was pretty cool. It was very emotional for Dave and I because we've been working on it for over a year.

SPEAKER_00 21:02

Yeah. To pour the support, the passion to want to help. You know, I mean, that's the big thing. And to see it all come to fruition and to see the faces, to see the teachers, and then the responses that we got were just like, that's why we did.

SPEAKER_03 21:18

That's why we did this. It was we walked out of that first classroom and I looked at Dave. We I don't know how we were the only ones in the hall, but I looked at him and I was like, I'm gonna cry.

SPEAKER_02 21:26

And he goes, Me too. We liked each other, and both of us were like, oh my God, we're seeing it come together. We've been working so hard on this for so long. And to see it.

SPEAKER_00 21:33

I don't think it was I was gonna cry. We were crying. We were crying, we were crying.

SPEAKER_03 21:37

But it wasn't like a it was just like a very it was just a very touching moment that to know that we had partnered together. And it's so unique. Like, I'm all about collaboration. I think I told you that earlier. Um, and in my role, I think it's so important that we do collaborate with the school district and that they understand what we're doing to support them and that we are trying to be able to do that. True partners in education. We're not just raising money to raise money and we're not just doing what we want to do. We align everything with the school district. And for Dave and I to stand there in front of the rest of the school district and say, we did this together. I'm a different organization, but we figured out together how best to make this happen. That's a great example and makes it clear to everyone that we are the direct support organization and that we can work together on the same team. How can we remove this barrier and get supplies to teachers and ultimately in the hands of students? So it's pretty cool. It's good stuff.

SPEAKER_00 22:37

We've had a lot of fun along the way.

SPEAKER_03 22:38

We have had a lot of fun along the way. We've become awesome friends, which is a nice perk of the fringe benefit, right?

SPEAKER_01 22:46

I love it. I can definitely feel that. And I think it's so awesome that through this true collaboration, not a theoretical collaboration, right? Because I think a lot of corporations like to say, oh, we've partnered with this business and that business. And it's no one really knows what that means at the end of the year.

SPEAKER_03 23:05

It usually means they wrote a check.

SPEAKER_01 23:07

That's a great point. But in this case, you made something, you created something together out of nothing for teachers who are at their very beginning stages. And so I want to talk about like where this program is going because it is exciting and it is so immediate gratification in a way, because you get to see there was nothing here for this teacher. She was going to spend hundreds of dollars out of her own very, you know, limited budget, minimal budget. And now she doesn't have to do that. And also, not only does she not have to do that, but kids are all going to have consistent supplies. Because when you're a kid, you know, we don't we talk about we don't really like have classes in America, but we kind of do, right? And when you're in third grade, that class is what kind of crayon you get. And so you've got all these kids that feel good about the supplies that they have at school. And when the teacher says, okay, let's get ready to do X, Y project, that kid can, yep, I'm ready. And that's what every parent wants. They want their kids to be ready for whatever's next at the time.

SPEAKER_03 24:11

They have the tools they need. And additionally, the it one of the things that will come from this, we hope, is teacher morale and dedication and retention, that they've know that they're supported. So that helps the us as a district with our employees. And it also helps those kids to feel like, I got my stuff, I'm ready to learn.

SPEAKER_02 24:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:32

So it's it's just a feel-good thing.

SPEAKER_00 24:35

I think we've all had jobs where, you know, if we just help had a little bit more support, probably would have stuck around a little bit, you know, and then that's true. For for to sit back and and to tell every teacher out there, like, look, there are people that want to support you. Like we are here, we care. Let us help. Like that that's what this type of program is for.

SPEAKER_03 24:54

And then we come back to how much does that cost? So you said where's it going next? The phase two is to roll out to identify schools that have a need for extra supplies and get those teachers on board. We have twenty seven hundred approximately teachers in Escambi County, which is a lot. And we're talking about giving them a fifty dollar credit so you can do the math. So about a thousand more will come on board into the online store in January. And we're hoping before the school year ends, if not before over the summer, that all teachers will be included. And that will depend on the fundraising.

SPEAKER_00 25:32

We have a plan for that.

SPEAKER_03 25:33

We have a plan.

SPEAKER_01 25:34

And January is January 2024.

SPEAKER_03 25:36

January 2024. January 4th. It's gonna be Was that three months away?

SPEAKER_00 25:40

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_03 25:40

No, it's closer than the bigger.

SPEAKER_00 25:42

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03 25:43

So anyway, we're excited. And so the funding is a big piece. I have to, I have to, my board has to, this foundation has to find the funding to support it. And we did some grant applications. So some money has come in that way. We had a private donor that wanted to be anonymous, wanted to help teachers. And I pitched the idea to him early August. And we had a private donor give $50,000 so we could do that first project. And that happened pretty quick. Within about three weeks, we put that together. Wow. And we've had some grant money come in. And I haven't done a lot of huge asks yet. I've just been talking a lot about the program. But we will not be able to continue it long term, which is obviously our goal, unless we have the funding to do that. And this is a way the community can really come together and support teachers in Escambie County. Because people are like, well, what can I do to help? Or education is such a problem. But this is something they can do, which is pretty cool. Get your company together and say, let's make a donation. Let's not just get collect school supplies. Let's take the money that we were going to spend on school supplies and get a group together and donate that to this program that's going to get at a reduced cost these supplies into teachers' hands. There's uh a lot of ways we can uh raise money. We're getting ready to do Giving Tuesday to the foundation, and we're gonna make it uh Giving Tools Day. So the Tuesday afternoon there. That was clever. So the day after um Thanks the Tuesday after Thanksgiving and Black Friday will be Tuesday, and you can donate money to this program that day. And of course we're 501c3, so any funds donated to us, you get a tax write off.

SPEAKER_01 27:31

I can see why you're in charge of fundraising. I feel very excited just listening to you.

SPEAKER_03 27:35

And and I've never been a fundraiser, like I've never been the executive director of a foundation before. Take my money. But I am very I I have no problem asking. I'm passionate about education and I know how important it is. And every we have issues with education. We just do. It's nobody's fault. It's uh socioeconomics, it's a million factors. So asking for help and giving people an avenue to do that, that's not hard to do. To me, it's like, hey, I'm having this employee appreciation of it, and every employee gets to come with their family, but I gotta pay for it.

SPEAKER_01 28:12

Well, I love the idea of having an office come together and instead of donating supplies, um, donate money because for one, most offices already have some sort of donation culture thing happening, right? But nobody likes going out and shopping for more supplies. Nobody wants to be ha have something added to their to-do list. So uh it's easier to donate money. And obviously, it goes three times exactly longer, goes farther with the how you have it set up. So thank you so much for sharing about this. This has been incredible. I'll be sure to put the links to any information that you want me to have in the episode description so that listeners can engage easily with what you have going on. And then in the very near future, it won't just be new teachers who have supplies every teacher in all of Escambia County.

SPEAKER_03 29:01

And yeah, all public schools teachers in Escambia County. We need to clarify that because they need to be working for Escambie County Public Schools to be included in the program.

SPEAKER_01 29:11

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