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Parents, students and librarians urge Asheville City Schools to restore media-center staffing
Summary
Multiple speakers during public comment asked the board to reverse cuts to media coordinator positions at Asheville High and SELSA and to preserve library services districtwide, arguing the losses limit instruction, interventions and students' access to trusted adults.
Several students, teachers and community organizers urged the Asheville City Schools Board of Education to restore media-center staffing and preserve school-library services during a lengthy public-comment period.
Julie Noblett, the media coordinator at Asheville Middle School, told the board she now has "less than a half time media assistant supporting me," and described being forced to decline routine student and teacher requests because the library cannot be supervised. "We have more students at AMS than we have during my eight-year tenure, so I have less support than ever," she said.
Student speaker Jackson…
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