{"id":51117,"date":"2025-12-03T15:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/51117\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T15:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:08:11","slug":"abbott-elementarys-quinta-brunson-starts-philly-field-trip-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/51117\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbott Elementary\u2019s Quinta Brunson starts Philly field trip fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbbott Elementary\u201d creator and star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.televisionacademy.com\/bios\/quinta-brunson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quinta Brunson<\/a> is teaming up with the School District of Philadelphia to create a fund to provide free school trips to students.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/form-renderer-app.donorperfect.io\/give\/fundsdp\/fieldtripfund\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Quinta Brunson Field Trip Fund<\/a> launched on <a href=\"https:\/\/support.whyy.org\/page\/12775\/donate\/1?locale=en-US\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giving Tuesday<\/a> and will raise money to provide free field trips for schools, giving students from underserved communities greater access to out-of-classroom experiences, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefundsdp.org\/news\/2025\/12\/announcing-quinta-brunson-field-trip-fund\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">release<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Brunson, a Philadelphia native, said field trips were some of the most memorable parts of her education growing up.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey opened my world, sparked my creativity, and helped me imagine a future beyond what I saw every day,\u201d Brunson said. \u201cGoing 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.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>The fund aims to eliminate the costs associated with field trips for more than 117,000 students in Philadelphia\u2019s public schools and will focus on the city\u2019s vast network of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitphilly.com\/museums-attractions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">museums and landmarks<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m proud to support Philadelphia students with experiences that remind them their dreams are valid and their futures are bright,\u201d Brunson said in a statement.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3871,223,69,71,70,24003,28844,1998],"class_list":{"0":"post-51117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-abbott-elementary","9":"tag-pennsylvania-education","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","12":"tag-philadelphia-news","13":"tag-philly-schools","14":"tag-quinta-brunson","15":"tag-school-district-of-philadelphia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}