LA TIMES EDUCATION REPORTER Thousands of AFT members and guests attended the union's biennial professional issues QuEST (Quality Educational Standards in Teaching) conference in Washington DC.

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 article on the shortage of textbooks and then tell us the story of textbooks for students at your school.

LAUSD teacher Brad Jones gives a first-hand account of the AFT's Quest conference.

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