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StateImpact Series, Part 2: New Teachers Must Pay For Tools Of The Trade

Claire McInerny
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Indiana Public Broadcasting

When most of us start a new job, we don’t typically buy hundreds of dollars’ worth of office supplies for our colleagues and ourselves. In fact, most of us would be outraged if that were expected.

But teachers essentially do just that every school year. Continuing her series on first-year teachers, StateImpact Indiana’s Claire McInerny looks at how much it costs for a new teacher to start their classroom and stock it with the educational materials they’ll need.

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