The Four Rs:

Reimbursement for Teachers

What makes this aspect of ACT!’s mission unique is that it is based on reimbursement to teachers solely for their prior school year expenditures that have remained unreimbursed. When a school year has ended and teachers still have not been reimbursed for their out-of-pocket classroom expenditures, and this continues to be the case as a new school year begins, something in the system has clearly failed our teachers, whether it’s inadequate funding and/or cumbersome, prohibitive bureaucracy.

Given such a passage of time, it is indisputable that teachers considered every item of unreimbursed classroom supplies to be so critical that they were motivated to spend their own money without hope or expectation of reimbursement. Such unreimbursed expenditures demonstrate a teacher's extraordinary commitment and generosity toward our children's education.

The community, through ACT!, may not be able to reimburse each penny for every teacher who went out-of-pocket for our children, but it can salute the dedication of these teachers with some community reimbursement.

Reimbursement of expenditures from the prior year is based on the recommendation of a screening committee of teachers. This committee reviews and vets specific reimbursement amounts for selected individuals.