According to the National Retail Federation, on average families plan to spend $890 on back-to-school items in 2023. Last year that number was $864.
The start of school comes with the cost of buying school supplies and that can cost you a pretty penny.
Raney and her family were out shopping for the basic back to school essentials. Fonda said she and her family were getting everything from paper to pencils to glue. The National Retail Federation says in 2023 on average families plan to spend $890 on everything from clothes – to shoes to electronics. We wanted to see how much it would cost for some of the must have items in one local school district. That includes: 6 folders with pockets, 2 composition notebooks and one pack of number two pencils – just to name a few. The total cost was near $24.Charity Thomas is a teacher in Central Indiana. She says that nearly half of her students come in without any school supplies.
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