MCPS Teachers Spend Own Money Equipping Their Classrooms

During the previous school year, teacher Katherine Cassidy “easily spent $2,000” on supplies for her second grade classroom.

Although she has been a teacher for 26 years -24 of which have been with Montgomery County Public Schools – last year she moved to second grade and had to buy lots of new classroom supplies.

This year, she expects to spend considerably less of her own money, but probably still hundreds of dollars...

MCPS Teachers Spend Own Money Equipping Their Classrooms - Montgomery Community Media (mymcmedia.org)