{"id":52041,"date":"2025-12-04T13:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52041\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T13:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:25:08","slug":"quinta-brunson-is-removing-barriers-for-philly-students-one-field-trip-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52041\/","title":{"rendered":"Quinta Brunson is removing barriers for Philly students\u2014one field trip at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAbbott Elementary\u201d creator Quinta Brunson<\/a> is channelling her inner Janine Teagues in her latest initiative. This week, Brunson launched \u201cThe Quinta Brunson Field Trip Fund.\u201d<\/a> In partnership with the School District of Philadelphia, the fund was created to provide free school trips for the city\u2019s students.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\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 to the Philadelphia Tribune.<\/p>\n

Brunson, an alum of the Philadelphia school district, understands the importance of field trips in a student\u2019s scholastic journey. And now with this fund, she plans to help eliminate the costs of field trips to Philadelphia\u2019s museums and landmarks for more than 117,000 public school students.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In hopes of making learning \u201cmeaningful and memorable,\u201d the fund will allow district school teachers and administrators to complete short applications for field trip grants, which will be evaluated by an independent group of educators, with funds dispersed twice a year, as reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are honored to partner with Quinta to expand these experiences for children in Philadelphia\u2019s public schools, helping them to envision and realize any future they desire,\u201d Kathryn Epps, president and CEO of the Fund for the School District of Philadelphia, told the outlet.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c[Field Trips] opened my world, sparked my creativity, and helped me imagine a future beyond what I saw every day,\u201d Brunson added. \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<\/p>\n

A proud Philadelphia native, Brunson has used her platform to not only spotlight the city but also the impact and struggles of many public school teachers face in her hit show, \u201cAbbott Elementary.\u201d In June, Brunson donated $25,000 to the school district\u2019s Groceries for Good program to fight food insecurity amongst students. Similarly, earlier this year, the \u201cAbbott Elementary\u201d star was honored with a key to the city of Philadelphia at her old elementary school, which inspired the ABC sitcom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tony Watlington, Superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia, stressed the importance of Brunson\u2019s work with the city school district in an interview with KYW News Radio:<\/a> \u201cWhat Quinta Brunson, our esteemed alum of the School District of Philadelphia, is doing is helping to eliminate all the barriers that impact whether or not our children can go on field trips. field trips, extend the learning inside the classroom to outside of the classroom, and vice versa. And so I\u2019m really excited about this.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis commitment to equitably expanding opportunities for students to have experiences outside of their classroom will help accelerate student achievement, and we are becoming the fastest improving, large urban school district in the nation,\u201d he added in a separate statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Donate to the Quinta Brunson Field Trip Fund here: https:\/\/form-renderer-app.donorperfect.io\/give\/fundsdp\/fieldtripfund<\/a><\/p>\n

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