Dallas ISD provides an annual $200 stipend to district teachers and staff in their September paychecks to help them purchase supplies and materials for the school year.
In total, 10,767 employees received $2,153,400 in September.
The Hub asked Maria, a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School, to interview teachers at Robert E. Lee Elementary School about how they planned to use their stipend. Watch the above video to see what the teachers said.