Field Trip Help!

[mhscogin]

I am a high school history teacher. We are planning to take a group of 35 teenagers to gettysburg in the spring for a field trip. The school district I work in has a lot of poverty. My goal is for each student to have to pay at least half the cost. The need skin in the game. But I need some ideas of how to help raise funds to off set the cost of the trip for each student. I have applied for a grant from the American Battlefield trust. But I was wondering if anyone on here could give me some ideas or information where I may apply for more grants. I teach at a small rural high school in NE Georgia

 

[mhscogin]

If you have a PTA/PTO group, could they raise money specifically for your trip without board meddling, or is that how you raised the money for your sports teams? What about a service club like Rotary? They sponsored the academic team at my high school (50 years ago; I don't know about now or if the school still has a team).

all sports money and club money raised is done by students and coaches going into the community. Once its raised, we have to turn it in which is perfectly fine. The issue is that our county office treats that money the same way as tax dollars given to the county by the state. Its two different things and they make our jobs literally impossible to do when trying to take trips like this. At one time, I could take cash and keep reciepts, incase a student needed some extra money. Not any more. If I buy something for a kid, the money FROM THE FIELD TRIP ACCOUNT cant be used to reimburse me, which is ridiculous.