More than 3,000 New York City public school teachers are begging for donations for basic classroom supplies – even as the city Department of Education is projected to spend a record-breaking $42,000 per pupil when students return to school Sept. 4.

Teacher Sherri Jackson is one of 3,385 city educators relying on the online fundraising platform DonorsChoose to fund items outside of their school’s budget and beyond what they already spend out of their own pockets. 3

She is asking for money for bandages , hygiene products like deodorant and menstrual pads, and warm clothing – because they’re as essential to her low-income students as pencils, she told The Post.

“I cannot go and be like, ‘Hey, Department of Education, I need Bandaids and I need sanitary napkins to have in my classroo

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