State, nonprofit partner to help teachers pay for some school supplies [Video]
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State, nonprofit partner to help teachers pay for some school supplies [Video]

DENVER — State education leaders said Thursday they know it’s very common for teachers to dip into their own pockets to pay for supplies for their classroom, which is why the Colorado Department of Education and crowd funding website Donors Choose have partnered to launch a program that will help cover some of that cost.

“We had to buy our own dice, we had to buy math games, reading games; we had to buy our own books to have our classroom libraries. So, none of this was in the classroom — everything was teacher funded,” explained Abby Johnson, who served as a teacher of the Cherry Creek School District over the last decade. She recently stepped away from the classroom, but estimates she spent at least $4,000-5,000 out-of-pocket over the years.

Johnson explained that many of her teacher colleagues faced the same challenges. It made for tough decisions for the mom of …

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