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Wake Ed Partnership President Keith Poston on their efforts to equip public school classrooms

Keith Poston, Wake Ed Partnership (Courtesy photo)

All across North Carolina, students, parents and teachers are preparing for the start of a new school year and, unfortunately, one of the most vexing challenges that’s accompanied this time of year for the last several is the struggle many public school teachers face in properly equipping their classrooms. Thanks to the state legislature’s serial underfunding of basic things like school supplies, teachers in our state typically resort to spending an average of more than $1,600 of their own funds per year just to get their classrooms up to…

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