WLA NewsLIBRARY LEGISLATIVE DAY 2010: NOT TOO LATE TO BE INVOLVED Library Jobs Need to be in the Jobs Bill! Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced yesterday that he will bring the Senate’s $80 billion version of the Jobs for Main Street Act or the “jobs bill” to the Senate floor sometime next week.... Latest Blow to School Libraries and Students President’s FY2011 budget proposals calls for cuts to school library program A press release is going out across AASL communication channels in response to the President’s Budget Proposal which eliminates the Improving Literacy through School Libraries Act,shown to be effective in raising literacy levels in poorer schools, designed to boost academic achievement by providing students with access to up-to-date school library materials.... |
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