CUT useless school spending by UPgrading?

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Hello, my name is ______ Johnson and I'm a student at Manteca High School, in Manteca, California. Here in our district, our budget has been cut 20%. Our textbooks are old and in shreds. We are always "supposed to get new ones," but it hardly ever actually happens.
I know that in Japan, there are many schools which utilize PDAs (for all of their students) that hold all of the school's curriculum textbooks in digital format, as well as allow internet access and word processing. I recently stumbled across an article about a school here in America that does the same thing(http://www.wired.com/culture/education/news/2001/06/44812).
In my district, $261.1905 was spent yearly on each student for one school year soley for books and supplies. It seems fishy to me, as I've certainly never seen the result of that. This was an expenditure account for the 2003-04 fiscal year, as found here: http://docushare.musd.net/dsweb/GetRendition/Document-4306/html#bmk10 .
I don't know what the 20% budget cut includes, but it probably covers our books. This leaves our district with $208.9524 per year, per student. Specifically, I'm worried about high school students, which here goes from 9th to 12th grade. Each student should receive $835.8096 towards their books and supplies, allegedly. Even if each student gets only half of that amount, we have $417.9048.
I, and other students I've brought the idea up to, believe that technolizing may really be the way to go. I have a complete (non-fiscal) argument ready to support this idea.
Is this idea obtainable? What options do we have? Is there anything else available besides hard-copies and online subscriptions (like CDs or SD cards, perhaps a multi-load so that students can go back to our school server and get the textbooks)? Please let me know.

Sincerely,

______ Johnson