Local Schools Get Money From McDonald’s

Principals, teachers, parents, and administrators earned money for their local school programs this year by working at McDonald’s.

Local Southern Colorado McDonald’s owners/operators donated over $20,500 to schools during the annual Teachers Challenge event in 2011. The McDonald’s Teachers Challenge is an annual regional program that enables school administrators, principals and teachers to rally their students and parents around McTeacher’s Nights that guarantees them at least 15% of sales.

23 Southern Colorado schools became McDonald’s employees for an evening to earn money for their school programs.

The two top schools that raised the most money in sales in one evening will be awarded a $500 bonus from McDonald’s. Mesa Elementary in Fountain raised $1,188 in sales and Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary in Colorado Springs raised $983. The $500 will be in addition to the money they raised in sales.