Budgetary shortfalls, school district bankruptcies, teacher and administrator layoffs, hiring and salary freezes, pension system defaults, shorter school years, ever - larger classes, faculty furloughs,
fewer course electives, reduced field trips, foregone or curtailed athletics,
outdated textbooks, teachers having to make do with
fewer supplies, cuts in school maintenance, and other tales of fiscal woe inevitably captivate the news media, particularly during the late - spring and summer budget and appropriations seasons.
It makes us wonder, that e-readers would be a tremendous benefit for schools, they spend so much on
textbooks, and then their
outdated a
few years later, where as they could always have the latest information in an e-reader.