Schools Facts

Jalen Hurts kept hearing the same story. Philadelphia schools were sending kids home early because classrooms were too hot. So the Eagles quarterback paid to install air conditioning in ten schools himself. More than 300 units later, over 5,000 students and staff have cool classrooms. Now every touchdown he scores pays for more.

Oregon's Coast Range forest was written off as dead for good after repeated wildfires. Some believed the land was too damaged to ever grow trees again. Oregonians proved them wrong. Between 1949 and 1972, crews hand planted 72 million seedlings. Schoolchildren bused in planted nearly a million of those trees themselves. In 1973, Governor Tom McCall stood in the regrown forest and renamed it Tillamook State Forest.