The SurRural Librarian

Here’s a story about a school librarian in California who’s doing great things for the library, the school, the kids and teachers - but the district has no money to keep her on the staff next year.

Hiring Torres to transform Lakewood’s library into a modern-day media center was funded by the Sunnyvale Education Foundation, whose members dreamed of putting a teaching librarian in all 10 Sunnyvale district schools. Lakewood School, where close to 40 percent of the students are still learning English, was the first. As it turns out, it also was the last.

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Now Lakewood is mounting a multitude of fundraisers and looking at what it can cut to keep Torres on the payroll next year, after the foundation funding runs out.

criminy.