Budget Cuts

From Bob Cerra, "As the lobbyist for FAME, I am very aware that the state budget provided by the Legislature to the school districts will result in substantial cuts to all types of education services. If your district is making disproportionate cuts to school library media programs and/or positions, please let us know what the proposals are and the rationale for cutting school libraries more than the rest of the education program.

FAME is doing its best to help to keep unfair cuts from being accepted into final district budgets. In order to assist, we need to have a good handle on what is being done at the district level. Please feel free to send a private email (not using your district's email system) to my email at bobcerra@comcast.net. We want to make sure that we do not attack superintendents and/or school boards for having to make cuts. The Legislature has decided that they were unable or unwilling to provide for the current system. However, we do not want to watch certain districts destroy their library media programs without doing something about it."