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Wake County librarians ask board for sustainable per‑pupil library funding; district data show collections aging
Summary
Librarians and students asked the Wake County Board of Education to create a sustainable per-pupil funding formula for school libraries using existing Fund 2 instructional-materials dollars, citing district data that 71% of school libraries have collections older than recommended guidelines.
Librarians and students urged the Wake County Board of Education to create a sustainable, predictable funding line for school libraries, proposing a per‑pupil allocation and use of existing Fund 2 instructional-materials dollars to address aging collections.
Christine Ziccardi, librarian at Farmington Woods Elementary School, told the board that Wake County currently lacks a recommended baseline for per‑pupil spending on library materials and that…
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