Let Schools Sell Old Books to Ensure Excellence in Education
Our local libraries often hold book sales to generate funds for new books, or other needed materials or supplies. It makes sense: Sell old or out of date resources and use those funds to purchase new items. A no-brainer.
Many school districts in California have stacks of unneeded, old and obsolete instructional materials in warehouses which if resold could generate new funds for our schools.
In these tough times of shrinking school budgets that threaten to hurt our children’s education, why don’t we let schools gather up surplus or out of date books and other instructional materials and sell them?
Unfortunately, state law has many restrictions on re-selling materials, making it almost impossible for schools to generate additional revenue from these sales.