North Carolina teachers often spend over $900 of their own money on classroom supplies. To help lighten that burden, WakeEd Partnership, an independent nonprofit working to improve public education, created Tools4Schools, a free classroom supply store serving Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) teachers.
Since opening in 2022, Tools4Schools has given away more than $1.6 million worth of new school supplies to WCPSS teachers. In the 2024–2025 school year, the store served over 5,000 teachers from 100% of Wake County’s public schools.
All WCPSS educators and certified staff are eligible to shop for free at Tools4Schools once per quarter. Each semester, they receive 100 points to spend on supplies ranging from pencils and notebooks to sticky notes and other classroom essentials…