On average, every year teachers in America
spend $500 or more of their own salaries on school supplies for their students, sometimes
even as much as $4,000. Students cannot learn and become productive members of
society without the basic essentials for learning, such as paper, pencils and other
basic school supplies.
In Arizona, over half of all K-8 students cannot afford lunch, much less basic educational tools and supplies.
- Children cannot succeed when they lack the basic tools for learning.
- Our school systems have shifted the burden of providing supplies to teachers.
- On average, Arizona schools budget less than five cents per student daily for supplies.
- Businesses have huge amounts of unwanted and surplus supplies that often end up in a landfill that teachers could desperately use.
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Across America, a number of partnerships between community businesses and non-profit organizations are meeting this challenge to
"ensure that children have the tools to learn." |