No "payoff" so D.C. cuts "investment" in school libraries
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| Whittier School parents struggled successfully in 2010 for a school library |
Taking their cue from Chicago's mayor, D.C. officials are proposing to get rid of 34 school librarians in the 2012-2013 academic year as part of a cost-cutting measure proposed by Chancellor Kaya Henderson.
Henderson, who replaced Michelle Rhee as D.C. schools chancellor, had this to say in a discussion with a local reporter:
“We have invested in full-time librarians for the last three or four years and we haven't seen the