{"id":50294,"date":"2025-12-02T19:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/50294\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T19:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:01:12","slug":"quinta-brunson-launches-fund-for-philly-public-school-field-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/50294\/","title":{"rendered":"Quinta Brunson launches fund for Philly public school field trips"},"content":{"rendered":"

After chaperoning fictional kids on visits to the Franklin Institute<\/a> and Smith Memorial Playground<\/a>, “Abbott Elementary” creator and star Quinta Brunson is sponsoring field trips for real public school students.<\/p>\n

The West Philly native has started a fund to cover the costs of field trips for city kids in Title I schools, which serve students from low-income families. The money will go toward admission fees at museums and institutions, as well as transportation and other resources.<\/p>\n

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“Field trips were some of the most memorable parts of my own education growing up in Philadelphia,” Brunson said in a statement. “They opened my world, sparked my creativity, and helped me imagine a future beyond what I saw every day. Going somewhere new shows you that the world is bigger and more exciting than you believe, and it can shape what you come to see as achievable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m proud to support Philadelphia students with experiences that remind them their dreams are valid and their futures are bright.”<\/p>\n

Brunson partnered with the Fund for the School District of Philadelphia, the district’s nonprofit fundraising arm, on the initiative. As a child, she attended\u00a0Andrew Hamilton School\u00a0and was inspired by her sixth grade teacher Joyce Abbott<\/a>, the namesake of her hit sitcom. Brunson eventually graduated from the now-shuttered\u00a0Charter High School for Architecture and Design<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the Emmy-winning writer and actress kickstarted the Quinta Brunson Field Trip Fund with an initial contribution, school district boosters are soliciting additional donations online<\/a>\u00a0for Giving Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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