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Ellen Degeneres donates $500,000 to Detroit's Spain Elementary-Middle School
DETROIT - It's being called Ellen's "biggest, most generous gift ever."
The students and staff at Spain Elementary-Middle School thought they were staying after school to be a part of a documentary on the problems plaguing Detroit Public Schools Wednesday for The Ellen Show.
They were in for a massive surprise.
“I couldn’t breathe," the school’s principal Ronald Alexander said. "I started crying. I didn’t know what to do.”
Degeneres delivered the news to the children and staff from her LA studio.
The TV show host teamed up with Lowe's to donate a half million dollars to the school. The donation comes as the district gets national attention for the horrible condition in some classrooms.
A check for $250,000 was written out to the school to pay for improvements. $50,000 also went towards new technology and $200,000 will go towards services. Students and staff were also given gift cards.
The students and staff at Spain Elementary-Middle School thought they were staying after school to be a part of a documentary on the problems plaguing Detroit Public Schools Wednesday for The Ellen Show.
They were in for a massive surprise.
“I couldn’t breathe," the school’s principal Ronald Alexander said. "I started crying. I didn’t know what to do.”
Degeneres delivered the news to the children and staff from her LA studio.
The TV show host teamed up with Lowe's to donate a half million dollars to the school. The donation comes as the district gets national attention for the horrible condition in some classrooms.
A check for $250,000 was written out to the school to pay for improvements. $50,000 also went towards new technology and $200,000 will go towards services. Students and staff were also given gift cards.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/ellen-degeneres-surprises-dps-school-with-largest-donation-in-shows-history
Great news! This school was highlighted the most here in the Detroit area has being the absolute worst of the worst. Glad Ellen made this possible.
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Ellen has a huge heart and is very generous. 
It's amazing that it has to take a celebrity to make a change in these matters, when it should be the ISD's to do what is the right to do.
But alas the poorer the community the less money there is to solve the problems.
WTG Ellen 
