How to Help Teachers Get Classroom Supplies Before the New School Year
by Elizabeth Yuko from Lifehacker on (#4N9GQ)

It's back-to-school shopping season, and not just for parents. A whopping 98 percent of teachers are responsible for purchasing their own classroom supplies without being reimbursed, the New York Times reported. And it's no small sum: Teachers who had to buy their own supplies spent an average of $479 of their own"