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The city of Greensboro is accepting school supplies as payment for parking tickets

Bins full of new school supplies line the walls at Guilford Education Alliance's Teacher Supply Warehouse in Greensboro where educators can shop for free. BETHANY CHAFIN/WFDD

Bins full of new school supplies line the walls at Guilford Education Alliance's Teacher Supply Warehouse in Greensboro where educators can shop for free. BETHANY CHAFIN/WFDD

Greensboro residents can donate items like glue sticks, colored pencils and notebooks to the Guilford Education Alliance Teacher Supply Warehouse in lieu of paying parking ticket fines. 

This alternative applies to any tickets, aside from handicapped parking violations, issued Aug. 1 through Oct. 31. All donations, which can also include cash, must be made within 30 days of the infraction. 

School supplies should be brought to the Greensboro Parking Office, and monetary payments can be made directly to the warehouse online. 

The value of these donations must be equal to or greater than the parking fine. Those participating will need to verify that with a receipt.

The Teacher Supply Warehouse allows Guilford County Schools teachers to shop for items at no cost. 

This marks the fifth year that the city of Greensboro has offered this alternative payment option. Last year, the parking ticket initiative resulted in nearly $600,000 in free supplies for educators. 

Amy Diaz covers education for WFDD in partnership with Report For America. You can follow her on Twitter at @amydiaze.

Amy Diaz began covering education in North Carolina’s Piedmont region and High Country for WFDD in partnership with Report For America in 2022. Before entering the world of public radio, she worked as a local government reporter in Flint, Mich. where she was named the 2021 Rookie Writer of the Year by the Michigan Press Association. Diaz is originally from Florida, where she interned at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and freelanced for the Tampa Bay Times. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of South Florida, but truly got her start in the field in elementary school writing scripts for the morning news. You can follow her on Twitter at @amydiaze.

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