The Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation, The Dale Jr. Foundation and Heart of America teamed up on April 20 to provide LaSalle-Backus a brand-new library space at the LaSalle Backus Education Campus in northeast Washington, D.C.
When the LaSalle-Backus Education Campus was chosen by the Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation to receive a brand new library space, principal Justin Ralston remembered hearing students immediately shout and cheer with approval.
“The first grade classroom ran out into the hallways and started chanting about their excitement for what was about to happen,” he remembered.
Just five months after that announcement, some of those same students walked single-file into their new school library quiet and awestruck by what they saw – a completely transformed learning area filled with athletes, celebrities, politicians, teachers and volunteers smiling and waiting for their arrival.