From: "Change.org" <mail@change.org>
Date: August 17, 2012 6:15:46 PM EDT
To: fg1913@gmail.com
Subject: Update about "Restore Librarians to DC Schools"
Reply-To: "Change.org" <no-reply@change.org>
Hi Everyone,
Thanks for all your amazing support of the Save School Librarians effort! We surpassed our 1500 goal and are on our way to 2500 signatures. A group of parents and a school librarian met with Chancellor Henderson today and it was disappointing. She seemed impressed (and perhaps a bit surprised) when we presented her with a thick pile of signatures. The Chancellor told us that she did not think that a librarian was needed in every school (citing a few schools with good reading scores that preferred to use their librarian funding for something else) and her leadership style was to leave the decision to principals. I disagree. And I think you probably disagree, too. School librarians should NOT be discretionary! We urged her to put a librarian in every school before the start of this school year, but she only promised to start a library task force to study the situation.
We have not given up. We are getting more support from City Council Members and more interest from media. Thanks to your help in spreading the word, we have 1800+ signatures and the number is growing every day. I would appreciate your advice on what else we should to do to get librarians back! As a first step, I will revise our letter to make it much stronger this weekend. I hope you will email me with any suggestions you have. Many thanks, Bella -- dinhzarr@gmail.com
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