AOL News: Strippers raise money for Vegas public schools
The Clark County School District kicked off the first day of school with scant resources. But it got a major donation from the scantily clad, reports Ryan Nakashima. The same day the nation’s fifth largest school district began the year with some 400 teaching vacancies, the school foundation that supports it, the Public Education Foundation, accepted a $2,500 donation from a strip club.
Scores Las Vegas raised the funds at an Aug. 23 back-to-school event called “Detention” that featured strippers dressed as teachers, schoolgirls and librarians. “It’s back to school time and you know what that means. Detention for everyone who has been bad!” one advertisement read. Patrons left more than $1,000 donations in a jar that the club said would go to the Clark County School District. Scores matched the donations roughly dollar for dollar, he said. “In this town, money is money, regardless,” Scores marketing director Shai Cohen said. “We’re a respectable business. We pay taxes like everybody else. We have a business license. It’s for a good cause.”
The money was earmarked for the foundation’s exchange program, which provides new or gently used materials, supplies and computers to Clark County teachers for free or little cost.
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