"When elementary and middle school students in the Port Washington-Saukville [WI] School District head to the library next year, chances are they’ll find something missing. The shelves will still be crammed with books, but there may be no librarian.
"’This was one of the most difficult decisions I have ever had to make,’ Superintendent Michael Weber said. ‘Cutting a librarian was certainly not something any of us wanted to do.’"
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has the rest of this sad story.
Cuts to school libraries
have
become
all
too
commonplace
recently.
Jessamyn West wrote an letter to the Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries on this situation last month.
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