Fullerton teacher librarian is last one standing
October 18, 2010 Filed in:
Budget &
Finance
Yvette Cabrerra, The Orange County Register
In California, as we plod
through this not-so-great recession, there are two kinds of
education-related cost cuts in play – the sexy kind and the
not-so-sexy kind. Any reduction in spending that might crank up the
number of kids in a third-grade classroom, for example, is easy for
parents and other taxpayers to understand. Same for cuts that wipe
out arts classes or PE or, the latest craze, several school days a
year. All those cuts, popular or not, attract attention and debate.
In short, they're sexy. But farther down on the radar is another
kind of cost cutting – the one that wipes out the often stereotyped
resource known as the school librarian...