As prices soar and family contributions shrink, America's teachers are footing the bill, spending hundreds — sometimes ...

Teachers spent, on average, $884 of their own money in the 2024-25 school year on cleaning supplies, prizes, snacks, decorations and more.

Hundreds of Oakland teachers have asked the community to help them buy pencils, crayons, and notebooks for their classes. But ...

The Sioux Falls Public Schools Education Foundation awarded its 1,111th first-time, first-year teacher grant the morning of Aug. 11, marking more than $185,000 awarded in such grants since 2011. Sixty ...

Reuse supplies creatively For teachers looking to stretch their dollars even further, finding creative ways to reuse and repurpose classroom materials can make a big difference.

Johnston said she’s heard arguments from Lawrence community members that families and teachers should not bear the burden of spending their own money on school and classroom supplies.

That’s one of the core challenges of mixing and matching reading programs and other materials in the classroom—a practice that data show is more common now than it was before the COVID ...