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Texas Education Agency Struggles with Funding Shortage to Buy Books.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2004
By Kelly Melhart, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 11--When school starts in August, an estimated 70,000 students might not have textbooks because the Texas Education Agency lacks the money to buy the books it promised.
If school districts cannot order additional books, many students will have to share books, and teachers may have to use worksheets and the Internet for lessons.
The agency needs $110 million worth of textbooks but has only $39 million to buy them, agency spokeswoman Debbie Graves Ratcliffe said this week.
"It's true. The districts aren't able to order the full complement of books that they were expecting," Ratcliffe said. "We simply don't have the money to pay for the...
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