[CALIBK12] Library Advocacy next steps

[Doyle_Tony]

I just don't buy the funding discrepancy argument as an excuse for cutting out librarians.  My district is nowhere near the top in terms of per pupil funding, in fact it is just south of average.  Our feeder districts receive comparable funding yet some of them cannot maintain library positions.  It is a matter of priorities and good, prudent fiscal management.

Tony

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Anthony Doyle, Teacher Librarian
Livingston High School
Livingston, CA
tdoyle at muhsd.k12.ca.us

"When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself." (Isaac Asimov, from his autobiography I Asimov)

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Subject: Re: [CALIBK12] Library Advocacy next steps

The way different district can do different things often has to do with
funding. The discrepancy in district state income is HUGE!