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PSLA Social Media Storm for School Librarians

June 21, 2020

We are facing a crisis in Pennsylvania School Libraries! Join the Social Media Storm on June 22nd to tell school boards across PA to retain their school librarians. 

D.C. Increases Education Budget!

May 21, 2020

We’d like to thank you for your advocacy and signatures on our online petition to support Washington D.C. school librarians. Mayor Muriel Bowser released her School Year 2020-21 budget on Monday, it includes a 3% increase in funding for public education. Please see the Washington Post article.

Open Letter to the Greensburg-Salem School Board

May 14, 2020

Editor: We are publishing this "open letter" to the School Board and Superintendent of the Greensburg Salem School District in Pennsylvania from recent graduate Melissa Paravate to highlight just how important the school library program - and school librarians - are to future academic success. If you know and believe like Ms. Paravate does that every student from the youngest age through high school should have a school librarian supporting their education, please sign the petition to the Board now: https://www.saveschoollibrarians.org/salemgreensburg

Tell your State Representative to Fund School Libraries after COVID-19

May 12, 2020

Many of our state leaders will be pushing for cuts to school libraries when budget time comes around. Without school libraries and school librarians to teach students about information literacy in the news, we face a grim future in which misinformation distorts our mutual understanding of reality.   

BCALA Support for D.C. School Librarians

May 04, 2020

We are proud to see the support of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association for the Washington D.C. School Librarians. Read the full statement below.

Letter to the DC public school Chancellor

March 31, 2020

Library Media Specialists (librarians) are very concerned about the closure of librarian positions throughout the district. Right before DCPS closed due to the Covid-19 health crisis, I’ve personally learned that colleagues at Malcolm X, King, Stanton, Wheatley (the librarian just received a major book grant), and Dunbar High Schools were informed by their principals that their positions would close at the end of the school year. Our fear is that there will be more librarians added to the list of closures.

Click to Share the Tweets to Support DC Librarians

February 26, 2020

Please support DCPS School Library Media Specialist by clicking to share the tweets below or share your own tweets with the hasthtags: #DCPSNeedsLibrarians and #DCPSSchoolLibraries and the petition at saveschoollibrarians.org/dcschoollibrarians

Don't Cut Davenport School Librarians

February 19, 2020

Facing a budget shortfall, the Davenport School District has threatened the positions of 22 librarians and replacing them with paraprofessionals. We need your support today! The vote to eliminate school librarians tomorrow (Thursday, Feb 20th).

Tweet to Support DC School Librarians

February 12, 2020

District of Columbia Public School library programs are currently being threatened by budget cuts and we need your help to get our voices heard. 

School District of Philadelphia Must Recognize that School Librarians are Essential to Student Learning

January 30, 2020

The Pennsylvania School Librarians Association was saddened to hear the response from the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) regarding the “Rally to Restore Philadelphia School Librarians” held on January 24, in front of the SDP Administration Building, as reported by KYW News Radio and in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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