Shelby County Public Library - Shelbyville, Indiana. Welcome to the VELMA WORTMAN MORRISTOWN BRANCH of the Shelby County Public Library. Our library is dedicated to Mrs. Velma Wortman who was the first high school librarian at Morristown. We are pleased to honor Mrs. Wortman.
Families with college students and students themselves will spend $136.95 on apparel, $117.98 on food items to stock their dorms and apartments, $66.70 on school supplies, $72.79 on shoes and $78.02 on personal care items.
Looking beyond out of pocket expenses, teachers spent a total of $3.5 billion in the 2009-2010 school year, an average of $936 per teacher--$398 on supplies and $538 on instructional materials. The major source of classroom supply funding aside from the teachers themselves was parents, who spent an average of $19 per student on classroom supplies. NSSEA estimated that amounted to about $475 per teacher based on a 25-student average classroom.