As the school year begins, my colleagues Carly Olson and Emerson Drewes found inflation rates have hit the school supply shelves . AdvertisementOn top of school supplies, families are finding that the cost of goods such as gas are bleeding into the costs for education. Rent for her also went up from $864 to $1,080 per month since she moved to Los Angeles. More than 90% of teachers spend their money out of pocket on school supplies and other items for their classrooms. But the city has violated that order at least twice in the last week, which officials called “unintentional oversights.” Los Angeles TimesSupport our journalism Subscribe to the Los Angeles Times.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 10, 2023 16:35 UTC