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Tanya Worley tells Pendleton County school board cuts would curtail Franklin Elementary library services
Summary
At a personnel hearing, Franklin Elementary employee Tanya Worley described how abolishing her extracurricular media specialist contract would reduce about two hours per week (roughly 76 hours per year) and force cuts to library programs that support early literacy; the board later approved the superintendent's RIF list that included the post.
At a personnel hearing on a proposed reduction in force, Franklin Elementary employee Tanya Worley told the Pendleton County Schools board that cutting the extracurricular media specialist contract attached to her parent-coordinator role would reduce student access to books and early-literacy support.
"For many students, the school library is their primary access to books," Worley said, listing inventory work, circulation, book-fair fundraising, creation of Accelerated Reader tests and yearbook production among duties she performs. She said the change proposed by administration would cut “about 2 hours less a week,” roughly "76 hours in the year," and…
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