Teacher Needs School Supplies
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content: This homemade poster was used by public-school third-grade teacher Teresa Danks in July 2017 in a roadside effort in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to raise funds for her classroom. Most public-school teachers use their own money or raise funds to provide classroom supplies. Danks was spurred to action by her frustration with recent steep cuts to Oklahoma’s education budget. Her effort attracted media attention nationwide and helped to bring awareness to the issue of teachers’ role in providing classroom supplies.
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content: Articles reporting on Danks’s effort include:
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content: https://time.com/4871149/oklahoma-teresa-danks-panhandling-school-supplies/
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content: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2017/07/24/a-teachers-solution-to-buy-school-supplies-for-her-classroom-panhandling/
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Oklahoma
label: Associated Place
content: China
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content: Work and Industry: Philanthropy
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Teresa Danks
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0081.01
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content: 2019.0081.01
label: accession number
content: 2019.0081
objectType: label: Object Name
content: poster
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper; marker (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 55.6 cm x 70.8 cm; 21 7/8 in x 27 7/8 in