Students attending Detroit Public Schools are facing a shortage of books again this year, even though emergency financial manager Robert Bobb has made substantial efforts to trim costs and promote enrollment. Bobb has also said he would make sure enough textbooks were distributed to all classrooms when classes started this fall.

Detroit Federation of Teachers President Keith Johnson told The Detroit News, “I have done visitations of 69 schools and with just about every one of them there’s been a problem with textbooks.”

But this year the book shortage is not due to unpaid bills, it has to do with the system’s overall inefficiency. That’s why DPS leaders pledged a “major overhaul” to textbook delivery services according to The News.