[CALIBK12] Ed Code and Volunteers

[Liana Smith]

The Media Technicians (classified position) in my school district will be reduced next year to some degree or another. It could be anywhere from 1/2 hour per day to 1 1/2 hours per day. Most of the principals are going to request funding from our local parent group (PFC). One principal said he was going to ask parent volunteers to make up the shortage instead of funding it. I mentioned to the Media Tech at that site that we are officially having a layoff of hours and that it is against Ed Code to staff any part of a position with volunteers. Is this correct and where in Ed Code is this addressed? She said that he would need proof of where this is stated.

Thanks so much for the help.




Liana de Wit-Smith
Fallon School (K-8) Library Media Technician
3601 Kohnen Way
Dublin, CA 94568
(925) 875-9376 ext.6308
http://www.dublin.k12.ca.us/Fms/index.htm
"What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education"

~ Harold Howe, former Secretary of Education