[Libs-Or] ACTION - House Education and Workforce Committee to mark up bill seeking to repeal “ineffective or unnecessary education programs”

[Diedre Conkling]

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House Education and Workforce Committee to mark up bill seeking to
repeal “ineffective or unnecessary education programs”

Posted on May 24, 2011
by Jenni Terry

The House Education and Workforce Committee is scheduled to mark up
H.R. 1891 tomorrow. This bill would repeal many U.S. Department of
Education Programs including Improving Literacy Through School
Libraries, which is the primary source of federal funding for school
libraries. School libraries have struggled this year with the
defunding of Improving Literacy Through School Libraries in FY 2011
budget.  If H.R. 1891 were to pass, it would effectively eliminate
this program as well as federal support exclusively for school
libraries.  We cannot let this happen!

If your representative is on the Education and Workforce Committee,
please call him/her today at (202) 224-3121 and urge them to remove
the repeal of Improving Literacy Through School Libraries from H.R.
1891.  Please explain to them that Improving Literacy Through School
Libraries serves to update many school libraries in disadvantaged
school districts where access to up-to-date materials is very much
needed.  H.R. 1891’s bill summary it calls for the “repeal of
ineffective or unnecessary education programs.”  Improving Literacy
Through School Libraries has twice been evaluated by the U.S.
Department of Education (most recently in January 2009), which found
the program to be successful in both evaluations.

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Diedre Conkling
Lincoln County Library District
P.O. Box 2027
Newport, OR 97365
Phone & Fax: 541-265-3066
Work email: diedre at lincolncolibrarydist.org
Home email: diedre08 at gmail.com