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Board declines to add district media specialist amid debate over frozen federal grants and priorities
Summary
Board discussion of the district-approved positions list centered on a proposed district-level media specialist. Board members questioned the timing given temporary freezes on several federal grant streams; no motion to add the position secured a second, so the requested addition did not pass.
Board members debated additions to the district-approved positions list on July 8, focusing on a proposed district-level media specialist intended to centralize inventory and review of school library materials.
The media specialist was the sole change from the previously approved list that required action at the meeting; board members discussed the role’s scope, whether the position should be full-time at the district level or maintained through school-based media specialists, and the optics and cost amid recent federal…
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