Philadelphia’s Librarian Dilemma – Pacific Standard

Philadelphia—a city whose school system ranks among the nation’s worst—has a major reading problem on its hands. On Sunday, Philadelphia Inquirer’s Kristen Graham reported that the city’s school librarian population has dropped by an astonishing 94 percent since 1991. Twenty-four years ago, there were 176 certified librarians throughout the city’s 218 schools—there are now 11. This comes on the heels of the city’s 2013 closure of its top schools’ libraries—victims to an unmerciful budget crisis.

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February 16, 2015 by Blake Uncategorized 0

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