State asks counties to plan for electronic textbooks

The state board of education recently implemented a two-year hiatus on the purchase of social studies textbooks, Cordeiro said. The money allocated for the books, roughly $36 million, instead will be spent on ed-tech infrastructure upgrades.

In encouraging a move toward electronic textbooks, West Virginia joins other states such as Florida, Texas, and Indiana.

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