Learning to Read on Zero Dollars a Day

Op-ed in the NYT

MEET Pat St. Tourangeau, a school librarian at Boise High. Her eyes are pale blue; her hair is straight; she has an indomitable look, as though this morning, while you slept, she might have baked a mean batch of cookies, towed someone out of a ditch and repaired a snowmobile.

I ask her how the library is doing.

“Our budget next year is going to be zero,” she says. “Again.”

Zero?

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