Office Depot donated more than 500 backpacks filled with supplies to students at Neely-O’Brien Elementary School in Kent as part of its annual Start Proud program.<\/p>\n
With support from Boise Paper (with mills in Minnesota and Alabama), families also received a $20 gift card to help with additional school supply needs. The students received the backpacks on Aug. 26, the first day of school.<\/p>\n
Teacher Katie Sherrard received Office Depot’s All-Star Teacher award in recognition of her dedication to education and extraordinary contributions to the school. Sherrard will receive a new Lenovo IdeaPad 3i laptop, a Serta commercial motif bonded leather high-back executive chair and more, valued at nearly $2,000, according to Office Depot.<\/p>\n
Local Office Depot and OfficeMax stores in the Seattle-area have been raising donations for the past three months to support the entire teaching staff at Neely-O’Brien, 6300 S. 236th <\/a>St. in the Kent Valley<\/a>. This will enable the school to receive thousands of dollars’ worth of additional health and wellness products, school supplies and more.<\/p>\n Customers who want to lend a helping hand can make a donation at the checkout counter of their local store through Sept. 25.<\/p>\n Neely-O’Brien was selected by Office Depot to receive the backpacks because it is considered a Title 1 school by the U.S. Department of Education, which means children from low-income families make up at least 40% of enrollment. That also makes the school eligible for federal funds.<\/p>\n The school supplies included notebooks, composition books, crayons, pencils, highlighters and more. Overall, each Start Proud backpack bundle will provide nearly $125 of economic relief to each recipient family.<\/p>\n Nationwide, Office Depot will donate and distribute a total of 18,000 backpacks filled with school supplies to students attending more than 25 Title I schools through its Start Proud program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Donations to Neely-O’Brien Elementary students; all-star teacher gets laptop, chair <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":51543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-51542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51542"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=51542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}