About

The Temple Education Foundation develops community support to expand financial resources that enrich teaching and inspire learning to maximize opportunities for all students in the Temple Independent School District. 

The idea to establish an education foundation to help students achieve post-secondary goals originated in a 1988 community-wide strategic planning meeting. Then Superintendent Jack Reeves and his staff brought the idea to life and created the Temple Education Foundation.

The Temple Education Foundation (TEF) was founded during the 1990-1991 school year with the help of the first chairperson Shirley Strasburger (1990-1992). In the first year, TEF raised enough money to award $200 scholarships to several Temple HS seniors and began sponsoring a Top Student Recognition Dinner.