Danville school board to vote on buying new textbooks

DANVILLE – Kindergarten through fifth-graders could be learning from new science and social science textbooks next school year.

The Danville school board on Wednesday will vote on a recommendation to buy textbooks for the 2008-09 school year from the Houghton Mifflin Company.

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