Linda Darling-Hammond Addresses Lack of Funding for School Libraries

From AASL Hotlinks (September 2011):

Former Presidential Advisor Linda Darling-Hammond Addresses Lack of Funding for School Libraries In a recent speech at the Save Our Schools March in Washington, D.C. Stanford University Education Professor and former advisor to President Obama on education, Linda Darling-Hammond explained the extent of the trouble public education is in, and mentioned the lack of funding for school libraries. “We are here to say it is not acceptable for the wealthiest country in the world to be cutting millions of dollars from schools serving our neediest students; to be cutting teachers by the tens of thousands, to be eliminating art, music, PE, counselors, nurses, librarians, and libraries (where they weren’t already gone, as in California)…” she said.http://ed.stanford.edu/news/darling-hammond-mess-we-are