Quarterback Jalen Hurts Helps To Cool Down A Philly School
Jalen Hurts and his Jalen Hurts Foundation unveiled the foundation donated $600,000 to upgrade a cooling system for Northeast High School in northeast Philly. The school is one of 52 district schools that still do not have air conditioning, according to WPVI News in Philly.
“Something that started three years ago watching the morning news on an off day,” Hurts explained to reporters about the initial news report that spurred his gift to the school. “Growing up in the South, I was very blown away about school being canceled not for snow, not for hurricane or for a tropical storm, but for a lack of AC. It’s a common thing that I didn’t think about when I went to my elementary school, my middle school or my high school. So I just want to pay it forward.”
More than 1,000 students, teachers and staff attended the presentation in the school’s auditorium. Among the people in attendance, School District of Philadelphia Superintendent Tony Watlington, who spoke about the battle of many public schools in the area facing no air conditioning.
Superintendent Watlington said the number of district schools without air conditioning has been reduced from 118 to 52. So far this school year, Philadelphia has experienced two heat-interrupted days at the 52 schools that still do not have air conditioning, according to ABC6 Action News.
Comments