Will Work For Reading

The Salem-Keizer Budget Committee was tasked with shoring up a $55 million general fund shortfall. The move to cut elementary and middle school librarians, approved by the budget committee last week, would save the district $3.8 million or 6.1 percent of the total needed to be cut from the budget. At the beginning of the next school year, the libraries will be devoid of its protector. Jodi Kerr and Shawn Estes, Salem Week, May 17, 2011