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With a textbook update on the horizon and a solar eclipse on the horizon, Lufkin students and teachers have been thinking about science lately.
The Lufkin ISD Board of Trustees on March 21 approved the adoption of science textbooks for kindergarten through 12th grade and technology applications for career and technical education in kindergarten through fifth grade and some high schools. Students will begin using the textbook next year. School districts follow the state’s issuance of new educational materials approximately every eight years, but sometimes the period can be longer.
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