[CALIBK12] Library Advocacy next steps

[Megan Fuller]

Hi all,

 

I've been reading, with interest, all the library advocacy emails.  I know that in the PVUSD we have had parents write letters, had students speaking in support at board meetings, we have spent time promoting the library program to the board members.  We have sent "School Libraries Work", and Doug's report, and other library studies on to the Board and the Superintendent.  Hopefully on March 5th these efforts will be rewarded and library programs will not be cut further.  I am pretty disillusioned at this point, and having spent three years on the CSEA negotiations committee, I don't really have faith in my union's ability to save jobs or keep volunteers out of a library, should worse come to worse.

 

It seems to me that it's time for the California School Library Association to step up and take a legal stand.  I, as an individual, do not have the resources to sue the district on ed code violations.  I truly believe that if school libraries are to survive and grow in California, ed code needs to have some teeth. I don't know enough about CSLA's finances to know if a suit is possible, but I believe there are enough California districts in voilation of ed code that CSLA could have its pick.  Does CSLA have a legal fund?  Has any thought been given to this type of action? Would the threat of action be enough to give districts across California pause before they cut library positions and programs?

 

Megan Fuller 
Aptos Junior High 
http://www.aptosjr.pvusd.net/library/ 

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. 
-- Wernher von Braun 


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