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With a new school year around the corner, North Carolina families have been spending big to buy supplies for their own kids, and their classrooms too.

YMCAs and Staples stores across Wake County are accepting donations of school supplies for Tools4Schools. The nonprofit program lets Wake County teachers pick out their own classroom supplies free of charge.

North Carolina's governor used the launch of a school supply drive on Tuesday to argue that the GOP has been inadequately funding education, forcing too…

Guilford County second grade teacher Nicole Batts-Elder scoped out shelves stacked with spiral notebooks, multicolor folders and bundles of unsharpened…