Education

Football sponsors help Atlanta teachers buy books, other tools

By Ty Tagami
Dec 31, 2015

Two college football organizations will help Atlanta teachers buy books and other educational tools.

Peach Bowl, Inc. and the College Football Playoff Foundation announced on Tuesday that they plan to jointly donate $200,000 — enough to satisfy all requests made by at least 133 fifth through 12th grade teachers on the crowd-funding website DonorsChoose.org.

The announcement benefiting Atlanta Public Schools comes ahead of Thursday’s Peach Bowl playoff at the Georgia Dome.

Learn more at the myAJC.com education page.

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Ty Tagami is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since joining the newspaper in 2002, he has written about everything from hurricanes to homelessness. He has deep experience covering local government and education, and can often be found under the Gold Dome when lawmakers meet or in a school somewhere in the state.

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