Photos: TUSD offers educational packets and food to students
Tucson Unified School District employees and teachers pass out educational packets, lunches and breakfasts to students and families at Harold Steele Elementary School, 700 S. Sarnoff Dr., in Tucson, Ariz., on March 31, 2020.
Due to schools being canceled, because of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), TUSD is offering educational packets to help students learn and parents and teachers teach while out of the classroom, according to Karla Escamilla, TUSD public information officer. The packets, made for all grades K-12, include TUSD's curriculum for all classes from science, history, math, etc. TUSD plans to have most of the paperwork online in the next couple of weeks, said Escamilla, as well as issue laptops to students who don't have access to a computer.
TUSD is also offering free grab-and-go lunches and breakfast, which started on March 23rd, to students from Monday through Friday between 10am and 1pm. Buses deliver the grab-and-go items at 113 locations along a total of 12 bus routes. On average, TUSD is serving 3,700 breakfasts and lunches daily, according to Escamilla.
A list of the bus schedule, as well as the educational packets, can be found on TUSD's website, tusd1.org.
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Susan Nelson, teaching assistant for Tucson Unified School District, pass out educational packets to a parent in their vehicle at Harold Steele Elementary School, 700 S. Sarnoff Dr., in Tucson, Ariz., on March 31, 2020.
TUSD delivers lunches
Tony Soria, far left, bus driver for Tucson Unified School District,, helps food service employee for TUSD, from left to right, Kat Lindquist, Maria Leon, and Cassie Phelps pass out lunches and breakfast to students and families at Harold Steele Elementary School, 700 S. Sarnoff Dr., in Tucson, Ariz., on March 31, 2020.
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Susan Nelson, right, and Jolene Luquin, teaching assistants for Tucson Unified School District, maintain social distance while waiting to pass out educational packets to parents in their vehicles at Harold Steele Elementary School, 700 S. Sarnoff Dr., in Tucson, Ariz., on March 31, 2020.
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After handing bagged lunches and breakfast to students, Tony Soria, bus driver for Tucson Unified School District, waves hello to students and their familyat Harold Steele Elementary School, 700 S. Sarnoff Dr., in Tucson, Ariz., on March 31, 2020.
TUSD delivers lunches
Tony Soria, bus driver for Tucson Unified School District, holds three bagged lunches at Harold Steele Elementary School, 700 S. Sarnoff Dr., in Tucson, Ariz., on March 31, 2020.
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Jolene Luquin, teaching assistant for Tucson Unified School District, grabs educational packets for a parent at Harold Steele Elementary School, 700 S. Sarnoff Dr., in Tucson, Ariz., on March 31, 2020.
TUSD educational packets
Susan Nelson, teaching assistant for Tucson Unified School District, hands educational packets to Paola Hagemann, right, and her son Ian Montaño, a seventh-grader at Gridley Middle School, at Harold Steele Elementary School, 700 S. Sarnoff Dr., in Tucson, Ariz., on March 31, 2020.
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Maria Leon, food service employee for Tucson Unified School District, brings out more lunches and breakfast for students at Harold Steele Elementary School, 700 S. Sarnoff Dr., in Tucson, Ariz., on March 31, 2020.
TUSD delivers lunches
Cassie Phelps, food service employee for Tucson Unified School District, hands two students lunches and breakfast at Harold Steele Elementary School, 700 S. Sarnoff Dr., in Tucson, Ariz., on March 31, 2020.
TUSD educational packets
Susan Nelson, teaching assistant for Tucson Unified School District, walks to a parent in their vehicle to deliver an educational packet at Harold Steele Elementary School, 700 S. Sarnoff Dr., in Tucson, Ariz., on March 31, 2020.
Rebecca Sasnett
Photojournalist
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