Sentences with phrase «school library budgets»

Our children's education and readiness for the workforce are in peril as school library budgets and school librarians are cut.

However, our children's education and readiness for the workplace is in peril as school library budgets and school librarians are cut.

Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), has warned cuts to school library budgets risk the literacy of children.

It notes that although the average school library budget increased by $ 1,000, the increase only returned libraries to the buying power they had four years before, when the average book cost 9 percent less.

«It's encouraging that the survey results demonstrate some stabilization of school library budgets in Australia,» Softlink's Managing Director, Nathan Godfrey, said.

Across the country we are seeing school library budgets get slashed.

School districts in Illinois are making the wrong choice by cutting school library budgets and laying off licensed school librarians.

However, they are becoming increasingly underused and underappreciated in education, with a survey by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) revealing that over a fifth of school staff said their school library budget has been cut by at least 40 per cent since 2010.

An ATL survey found that more than one in five school staff claimed their school library budget had been cut by at least 40 per cent since 2010.

More than one in five school staff said their school library budget has been cut by at least 40 per cent since 2010.

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