 Since then, 11 states have restricted their use or outlawed them. Shantia Hudson reporting. Wake Ed Partnership is launching an eight-week community-wide supply drive to help stock Wake Ed's free classroom supply store. President of the Wake Ed Partnership, Keith Poston, says this program helps keep classrooms stocked so the burden of providing tools to students doesn't fall on teachers. We're just trying to make sure that the teachers have what they need to give to their students so that they don't have to buy that stuff out of their own pockets.