CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow August 8, 2015 20:52:00
Education. not for students but for teachers as teachers get ready for the school year a lot of kids probably heading back to school pretty soon. teachers will spend $1.6 billion across this country of their own money for back-to-school supplies for their students. that is nearly $500 for each teacher out of pocket. just a reminder of how much we expect of our teachers and frankly, how much they give. that is just one sacrifice teachers make. salary for a lot of teachers is another. between 1999 and 2013 the average salary of a teacher dipped 1.3% to $56,383 a year. that's on average. even tak...