Westside Future Fund gives $100,000 to Washington cluster schools

On Aug. 27, the Westside Future Fund awarded $100,000 in grants to five of Atlanta’s Booker T. Washington cluster schools to fund student and teacher-oriented programs on the Westside.

Five schools received $20,000 each for “programs and resources that promote student success:” Booker T. Washington High School, Hollis Innovation Academy, H.J. Russell West End Academy, Tuskegee Airmen Global Academy and M. Agnes Jones Elementary.

Atlanta Public Schools is split into nine “clusters,” with five schools in the historic West End’s Washington cluster. The cluster Superintendent Shelly Goodrum said the funds will go to “impacting our children, but also the teachers that teach them.”

Westside Future Fund led the charitable fundraising effort, and the $100,000 came from funders who told the nonp