Tulsa City Councilor Donates $100,000 To Create Change For Tulsa Public Schools

A Tulsa city councilor hopes to create change by donating $100,000 to Tulsa Public Schools. He hopes it will encourage others to donate as well.

City Councilor Jayme Fowler works as a money manager and he’s done well enough to make several large donations to Memorial High School over the years. Now, he wanted to help a couple a elementary schools and believes helping the schools is the best way to help Tulsa’s neighborhoods thrive.

Fowler made a $100,000 donation, starting what he hopes will be an endowment to help support parents and teachers. The donation will directly support the PTA and Teacher of the Year, according to City Councilor Jayme Fowler.

Fowler graduated from Memorial High School, and his donation will support Marshall Elementary, where he started school, and McClure Elementary, where his wife is a teacher.

Fowler said he's previously supported Memorial with time and money, primarily through landscaping projects. Now he wants to broaden his giving and encourages others to do what they can for their neighborhood school.

"If you want a great city, it's really easy," said Fowler. "You have to have vibrant neighborhoods. And if you want vibrant neighborhoods, you have to have vibrant neighborhood schools. And once you start revitalizing the schools, people will come in, they will move into the neighborhood."

Fowler said his donation is an endowment, so it will continue, and he hopes, it will grow.

"Every child deserves a first-class, world-class education. It's the building block for any great society," said Fowler. "You have to have an educated population and this is a part of it. We're going to do a lot more as we go forward. This is not the end, this is only the beginning."