Inland Empire Community Foundation

Burying your face into a phone screen may be a big thing for kids in 2025, but the latest chapter in the Palm Springs Unified School District’s ever-evolving history delivers a refreshing plot twist.

“Students want books,” says Ellen Goodman, foundation director of The Foundation for PSUSD. “This came to our attention after somebody recently suggested launching a campaign to purchase books for our elementary school classes, and our classrooms — books that have the variety of interests for all the different personalities, so that the school library wasn’t the main place books were available.

“We decided to go on a quest to raise money to purchase books — from hard copy with pictures and paper and color — and place them in our classrooms in our elementar

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