By MATT KATZ
Courier-Post Staff

A special education teacher at Moorestown High School wanted graphic novels to entice her students to read. A Teach For America member in Camden needed materials for the after-school Science Society at Cream Family School.

And in Gloucester Township, a teacher imagined a world where she had enough pencils to hand out to eighth-graders who come to school, for whatever reason, unprepared.

In the past teachers paid for these sorts of items that get squeezed out of ever-tightening school budgets. But now, there's help online.

Through a Web site launched in New Jersey this school year, teachers write a short grant request and anyone with a few bucks to spare for education can pick a school, choose a project and donate.

As of last week, Donors Choose.org had raised $11,512 for 25 different projects at schools in Burlington, Gloucester and Camden counties.

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