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Jenks Schools get a million dollar gift to hire more teachers

Students at Jenks West Elementary
Students at Jenks West Elementary

In a time of cutbacks and teacher layoffs, the Jenks School District gets a gift of more than one-million dollars. The donation is announced at Jenks West Elementary. The money comes from a private fundraising effort spearheaded by parents of Jenks school children. The idea is to use the money to reduce class sizes for kindergarten through 6th grade. Danny Christner is one of those heading up the donor effort. He says this money will be used strictly for hiring more teachers to reduce class sizes, but the plan is for the private dollars fundraising to continue.

The Jenks Public School Foundation will serve as manager of the fundraising campaign. The hope is the effort will be a catalyst to raise more private dollars to bolster public schools.