LA TIMES EDUCATION REPORTER Amy Pyle informed Los Angeles about the tremendous shortage of textbooks for students in the Los Angeles Unified School District in her story "Book Shortage Plagues LA Unified" [LA Times, July 28, 1997] and follow-up article, "Textbook Shortage Sparks Outrage, Study of Spending" [LA Times, July 29, 1997].

What is happening at your school? Do your students have books? If not, why not? If they do, how did your school get them? Read the Times articles on the shortage of textbooks, puruse our reader's feedback, and then tell us the story of textbooks for students at your school.

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