Retailers typically have a higher than average amount clothing, shoes, backpacks and school supplies in stock.
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Here at Bethune they've been fixing up bulletin boards and organizing school supplies all month.
Children are given two uniforms and two pairs of shoes each year, along with school supplies.
Veterans rely on the payments to cover tuition, rent and school supplies such as computers and textbooks.
The 47-year-old assistant teacher also said Beale has regularly provided school supplies and Christmas gifts to needy students.
Over the past few days, my house has been a whirlwind of new schedules, uniforms, book bags and school supplies.
That means increasing teacher salaries and giving them a budget to spend money at the local level for school supplies.
He is heartbroken that he is unable to provide even basic necessities, like food and school supplies, for his children.
She "cringed, " she said, as she visited a Wal-Mart store around July 4th this year and saw school supplies on display.
Most teachers work tirelessly, with modest pay, sometimes digging into their own pocket for school supplies -- just to make a difference.
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It's so bad that teachers nationwide often dip into their own pockets just to purchase school supplies for many of their students.
So the girls pretended they needed money for school supplies and sweets.
The price of everything in the market is up, she says, and after paying for food and for school supplies, there's nothing left.
Many states use the holiday as an opportunity to give parents a break from the sales taxes associated with school supplies, dorm furnishings and clothing.
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The aid - including school supplies, building materials and two large electricity generators - is now stuck at the Israel-Gaza border, our correspondent in Gaza says.
Vatsaloo has now been to Baan Borang almost 60 times, each time bringing something of value, from school supplies and health care information to energetic friends wanting to help.
As part of its report on back-to-school supplies, CHEJ also produced a guide to safer back-to-school supplies as a way to help parents make safer decisions.
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And look, I think in terms of school supplies and stuff -- look, I remember when I was in school in Alabama, we went the Tuesday after Labor Day.
Knowing that the teachers would be without the supplies from their old classrooms and the students probably no longer had backpacks, Richardson focused on collecting school supplies to send to Connecticut.
Ten years later, the Brooke Jackman Foundation, which they founded to promote literacy for at-risk children, has donated nearly 100, 000 books and 10, 000 backpacks filled with school supplies to kids in the greater New York region.
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They highlighted a lack of modern resources such as computers, the long delay it often takes for needed school supplies and resources to reach them and how many of the trees that supply needed shade during the lot of school days are being needlessly cut down.
Because back-to-school supplies are not regulated in the same way these products can be marketed and sold to children without threat of legal action, but CHEJ cautions parents to beware of school supplies, particularly those made of vinyl (think backpacks, binders, and lunch bags and boxes).
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For children of either disposition, back to school time means back to school shopping for supplies, new clothes, and if lucky the latest gadget with which to impress friends.
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Determined to empower these undervalued girls, I collected 500 pounds of school books and supplies by distributing flyers to my neighbors, family and friends, and transported it all on the plane to Tanzania.
Alternative Apparel has also pledged to give bags, backpacks and other supplies to the school throughout the year as part of the collaboration.
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In a study conducted by Sallie Mae in 2009, about a third of students polled had put their tuition, or part of their tuition on credit cards, while 92% put textbooks, supplies and other school expenses on their credit cards.
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She and her foundation are helping thousands of rural children attend school by providing them with uniforms, supplies and other services.
Unless they receive federal assistance, many school districts will be forced to reduce the number of teachers in their classrooms, or turn to other measures such as shortening the school year or cutting spending on schoolbooks and supplies.
The brother said he would like to finish school but there wasn't enough money for supplies.
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Schaefer still sets aside her tips and wages to support her school and has kept up her fundraising efforts to buy supplies.
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