Re: [LM_NET] Action Plan for Please DO THIS NOW!

[Josephine Dervan <dervan@OPTONLINE.NET>]

Thanks Alice and Deb for alerting us to this big concern.
 
Here is the message in this week's AASL HotLinks:


President’s FY2011 Budget Proposals Calls for Cuts to School Library Funding
 
President Obama’s FY2011 Budget Proposal to Congress released February 1, included 
a $400 billion investment into education but did not include specific funds for 
school libraries. Additionally, the budget called for a consolidation of the funds 
for the Improving Literacy Through School Libraries Program, which takes the funds 
out of reach for most school libraries. 

“This Administration says it wants to focus on programs that are effective, but it 
has not only recommended policy that will keep school libraries underfunded, it 
will also eliminate funds for a program that the Department of Education has 
evaluated twice and found to be effective both times,” American Association of 
School Librarians President Cassandra Barnett said.


In addition to the press release put out in response to the President’s Budget 
Proposal, AASL is encouraging members to write to their local media outlets and 
share with their communities the impact your school library programs have in your 
districts. To support this call to action, AASL has provided members with a sample 
letter to the editor, available for download on ALA Connect. Use the contents of 
this letter to draft your own messages to your local newspapers, radio stations, 
and parent and youth organizations.



Josephine Dervan, MLS -Adjunct Instructor 
School of Communication and  Information 
Rutgers University 
dervan at optonline.net 


He who has a library and a garden, wants for nothing- Cicero 

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