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Long Beach Supt. to Take 10% Pay Cut

Funds Will Assist LB Employees During Economic Crisis   It was a very sobering meeting on the Long Beach Board of Education tonight (1/26/09). The topic was to be the huge cuts coming to education funds once Sacramento has its way. Of course, the Long Beach librarians were there in number. We know from experience that [...]

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Students Organize to Recall Their Entire School Board

This one’s a wowzer! From the Los Angeles Times (reported by Richard C. Paddock, 1/10/09): “In what may be the first attempt in California to unseat an entire school board, high school students and supporters who want to oust all five members collected enough signatures to put the issue before voters, the Tuolumne County clerk said [...]

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Protection for Students’ First Amendment Rights

This morning’s Los Angeles Times came with a fascinating, and for hysterical librarians like me, rather exciting headline: “New California law protects school journalism advisors. The act, said to be the nation’s most stringent, prohibits school administrators from retaliating against advisors for trying to protect student press freedoms.” According to the article by Robert Lopez, over the [...]

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