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Yesterday morning, a group of DC Public Schools (DCPS) librarians gathered outside downtown DC’s John A. Wilson building, where Mayor Muriel Bowser has an office, for a protest. But shhhh instead of marching with signs, the group took a different approach. At the “read in,” each one grabbed a book and read in silence.
The protest had two main goals: one was to appeal to the DC Council to help improve the literacy rates of students by reducing class sizes and using collaborative teaching models. The other was to save their jobs. For the 2021/2022 school year, DCPS is recommending but does not require that each school has a librarian. The decision to allocate the budget towards a librarian’s position is up to each individual school’s principal. The librarians hope that a portion of DC’s $14 million in federal stimulus money will help them.
The Washington Teachers' Union president who died in a Prince George's County car crash last month was under the influence a the time of the crash, according to Maryland State Police. In a Friday news release, MSP said driver impairment was a factor in the collision that killed Elizabeth Davis, 70, and 67-year-old John Starr. According to the release, Davis had a blood alcohol content of . 13 at the time of the crash.