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Palmdale School Libraries to Stay Open Despite Funding CutsDespite a $469,000 cut in funding for the system’s libraries, the Palmdale (Calif.) School District says it expects to keep the facilities open next year. Principals at nine schools said they will use other funds to pay for a full-time library employee, and 13 principals said they would be willing to share a full-time staffer with another school, the Los Angeles Daily News reported May 10.In March the school board cut nearly $5.7 million from next year’s budget, including money that currently pays for a library staffer at each school for three hours daily. Trustee Sheldon Epstein voiced concern about the uncertainty resulting from the lack of dedicated library funds. “If one administrator next year says, ’Yes, I want this position,’ then the following year, there might be a different administrator who doesn’t,” he said. “It kind of puts those people in those positions and services in a quandary, not knowing year to year.” The shared-staffing plans would see library employees working eight hours at one school on one day and then eight hours at another school another day, said Assistant Superintendent Roger Gallizzi. Posted May 13, 2005. |
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