[CALIBK12] Fwd: [aaslaffils] Great news from Ohio

[Connie Williams]

Look at what CAN be done!!
Connie

Connie  Williams
President
California School Library Assn
CSLA 2.0 Team

chwms at mac.com
>
> Hello AASL Affiliates-
>
> Sorry I could not share this news while we were meeting in Chicago-  
> but we just found out the details of the state budget that was  
> passed by the Ohio House and Senate yesterday.  Ohio will be funding  
> 21st Century student learning through professionally staffed school  
> libraries!
>
> Starting in fiscal year 2010, under Governor Ted Strickland's  
> evidence-based Education Reform and Funding Plan, over the next ten  
> years, Ohio will phase in funding for licensed librarian and media  
> specialists in Ohio's schools.  For each Organizational unit as  
> defined in Section 3306.04 of HB 1, $60,000 will be phased in for  
> "The licensed librarian and media specialist factor."  The  
> organizational units will be determined by dividing the number of  
> students in the district by grade levels (418 students in grades  
> K-5, 557 in grades 6-8 and 733 in grades 9-12).  In smaller school  
> districts the number of organizational units is one unit; each  
> district will have at least one organizational unit regardless of  
> the formula ADM.
>
> On Monday, July 13, the Ohio Legislature's Conference Committee <http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=128_HB_1 
> > voted to accept HB1 as voted on by Ohio's House of Representatives  
> <http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/ 
> BillText128/128_HB_1_RH_N.html>.  In Sec. 3306.10. (A), lines 41188  
> through 41207 are based on Governor Ted Strickland's Evidence-Based  
> Education Reform and Funding Plan <http://www.iuc-ohio.org/pdf/strickland_plan.pdf 
> >.
>
>
> Sec. 3306.10.
> (A) The technology resources support component of the adequacy  
> amount for each city, local, and exempted village school district is  
> the sum of the following:
> (1) The licensed librarian and media specialist factor;
> (2) The technical equipment factor.
> (B)(1) The licensed librarian and media specialist factor shall be  
> calculated by multiplying the number of the district's  
> organizational units times $60,000.
> (2) The technical equipment factor shall be calculated by  
> multiplying the district's formula ADM times $250.
> (C) The licensed librarian and media specialist factor and the  
> technical equipment factor for each city, local, and exempted  
> village school district shall be adjusted by multiplying the  
> calculated amounts by 0.20 in fiscal year 2010, by 0.30 in fiscal  
> year 2011, by 0.40 in fiscal years 2012 and 2013, by 0.60 in fiscal  
> years 2014 and 2015, and by 0.80 in fiscal years 2016 and 2017.
> (D) Each school district shall account separately for the amounts  
> received for technology resources support under this section and  
> report that information to the department of education.
>
> Library Media Specialists in Ohio want to thank the organizations  
> that helped us support us with the campaign- The State Library of  
> Ohio, The Academic Library Association of Ohio and AASL for their  
> involvement with the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.
>
> Marie Sabol- 2009 OELMA President
> Deb Logan- OELMA Advocacy Co-Chair
>
>
> Please Note:  This email and any response to it is being archived  
> for later retrieval and may constitute a public record and therefore  
> may be made available upon request in accordance with Ohio Public  
> Records law (ORC 149.43).
> ************************************************************
>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.sjsu.edu/pipermail/calibk12/attachments/20090714/877400ba/attachment.html