The City of Austin will continue its annual Citywide School Supply Drive this week. Each summer, employees with the city use their own money to buy school supplies to help Austin students in need. Over the past 16 years, employees have donated an estimated 13,000 backpacks.
City workers will be bringing the school supplies and backpacks they are donating to City Hall on Friday, July 29. There will also be around 20 elementary and middle school students in attendance from the Austin Independent School District picking up their supplies. The remainder of the backpacks will then be distributed to the selected AISD schools, Gardner-Betts, and AISD Refugee Services during in-service week.
The City of Austin, Austin Independent School District, and Austin Partners in Education have been working together for years to make the Citywide School Supply Drive possible.
