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Librarian data, special-education complaints and community-schools debate surface during Davis board public comment
Summary
Parents, a school librarian and community members urged the Davis County School District board on April 16 to preserve library services, expand community-school supports and improve special-education responsiveness. Speakers cited checkout statistics, food-pantry supports and delays in IEP evaluations.
At the April 16 Davis County School District board meeting, public commenters praised school libraries and community-school supports and urged the district to address gaps in special-education services.
Shauna Christiansen, media specialist at Northridge High School, told the board that district libraries are heavily used and provide a range of student supports. “We have over 70,000 students, faculty, and staff that utilize our school libraries,” she said, adding that the district has checked out “over 1,000,000 books” this school year and “52,000 books checked…
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