The school district joins a national movement to provide access to period supplies.
, the education foundation for the district. “Sometimes for students that causes absences from class or other interruptions to their academic learning when we could be providing this as a basic need for them. So I think it does impact students from low-income communities in a greater sense, but I think it will help all students and hopefully just reduce a barrier.
Snow White, mother of a sixth grader and an Austin Ed Fund board member, started pushing for free period products at all Austin ISD campuses during the pandemic. Her daughter, Kennedy, got her first period when classes took place online during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis in 2020. When in-person classes resumed at Kennedy’s K-6 elementary school the next year, White was unsure how the young girl would manage menstruating on campus, so she contacted the staff to see if they could help.
“If my daughter’s school doesn’t have this, what about all the other schools in Austin?” she wondered.
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