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LAUSD begins to slash library funding

  • 05-06-2010
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By Connie Llanos/Los Angeles Daily News

During recess Wednesday at Pomelo Drive Elementary as one student searched the online catalogue of the school's library, for books about pizza, another paced the fiction aisles digging for a "Star Wars" selection. Two second-graders curled up on one of the room's big red couches while another group of students enjoyed the sunny day to read under some trees right outside the library. "At recess and lunch this place can get crowded" said Fran Johnson, the library aide at Pomelo Drive. When urged to explain her library obsession fourth-grader Reika Rashidi's answered promptly "I love my library...it's a quiet place to think." (more...)

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