Picture this: Attorney Jim Adler handing out 12,000 sox on a recent Saturday to kids whose families have no money to buy them. See it here on Hammer TV, Fox News, KPRC-TV, and Univision. “Why did I give sox? The Houston Independent School District told me sox are one of the great back-to-school needs for kids,” Adler said. “So, I bought 6,000 pair to give away.” 2,000 children from 10 elementary schools on Houston’s east side got the sox and other back-to-school supplies at the annual LaRosa Family Services event on Houston’s east side. Read more...
According to HISD, 32,000 kids attend school there. Eighty-nine percent are Hispanic. Ninety percent of them live at or below the poverty level. Adler is a Mayor Bill White appointee to the Joint City/County Commission on Children and a well-known child advocate.