MacKenzie Scott’s $2.5M Donation to Assist Minority Excessive Faculty College students

MacKenzie Scott’s $2.5M donation to an Ohio highschool — which largely serves minority college students — is being put to good use, by giving the excessive schoolers an enormous jumpstart on their faculty credit.

Metro Early School Center & Excessive Faculty in Ohio is not your typical faculty — its curriculum focuses on STEM (science, tech, engineering and arithmetic) … whereas offering college students the chance to take courses at close by schools and intern at native companies in the course of the faculty day.

Meka Tempo, the superintendent of Metro tells TMZ … whereas the varsity has rather a lot to supply, it may well get costly. Metro usually spends $350K/12 months on enrolling 84% of its college students in college courses. MacKenzie’s donation will permit extra college students to take faculty courses.

That is not all, MacKenzie’s contribution will assist with transportation … the youngsters have to go from faculty to their internships and again, one thing that is been an enormous impediment up to now.

FYI — MacKenzie simply gifted tens of millions of {dollars} to a number of nonprofits in Ohio … together with a $6.5M donation to the Columbus City League.

Unclear what her connection is to the state of Ohio … however Tempo says she’s humbled MacKenzie took discover of the varsity’s dedication to excellence.