S.D. School Board Approves Wish List of New Textbooks

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The San Diego Incorporate School Board approved a wishing listing of new texts it desires for adjacent school year. With looming budget cuts, it's unclear when the territory will have got the money to purchase them. KPBS Reporter Ana Tintocalis have the story.

Most of the new texts are for center and high school students. They run in topics from picture taking to physics. School legal guardians approved the $20 million plan. They also desire territory functionaries to phase-in E-books within five years. E-books are online texts pupils entree on a computer.

Parent Flatness Spathis praised the board for moving in that direction. He states children today are bored with traditional textbooks.

Spathis: I believe we can all associate to one what this device is -- an Etch-A-Sketch. This is what a pupil experiences like when we manus them a book that's not three-dimensional, that's not hyperlinked, that's not existent time, that's not video clipped. We necessitate to retool and retrain everybody in a affiliated human race for our children to be competitive.

School legal guardians state investing in e-books is better than paying for texts that go quickly outdated. Ana Tintocalis, KPBS News.