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Board to vote on eliminating library positions
The Middletown Board of Education will vote on eliminating seven library manager positions at their meeting Monday, June 15.
The board gave the direction to cut no less than $500,000 from the budget for the 2009-10 school year.
Eliminating the full-time, classified library jobs would mean a $200,000 savings, according to district communication specialist Debbie Alberico.
Last school year was the first time the district had a library manager in every building, Alberico said.
The classified employees have duties like maintaining circulation systems and doing yearly inventories. They assist teachers by gathering materials, as well as maintaining the records on loans.
But along with those duties, Central Academy library manager Tami Moreland said “there’s a huge relationship piece” to the job.
“It’s our job to have our students be excited about reading,” she said.
Read more about this issue, and the district’s recent action to eliminate a reading program in tomorrow’s Journal.
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By kc
June 14, 2009 10:40 PM | Link to this
Reading Program? You must mean the Reading Diagnosticians or RDs. Dr. Price started this program with no research to back it up. He threw out the 4 Blocks approach that the new curriculum people are trying to re start. What a waste of thousands of dollars!