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How can we keep Yosemite students reading? By providing
our students with interesting up-to-date, quality books.
We should all pull together in hard budget times and rededicate ourselves
to the education of our young people.
California, since 1998, has recognized the importance of a well staffed
and up-to-date school library. The California Public School Library
Act originally generated $29 per Average Daily Attendance (ADA) for
school libraries. The budget crisis had decreased the allotment to
$1.51. During the flush times the YHS library was able to update reference
books and add titles that support new curriculum standards, add fiction
books and purchase online databases. Currently, the district is supporting
a limited selection of online databases (www.yosemite-uhsd.com/library/index.html)
and book purchases have been drastically reduced while still maintaining
the library staff.
Recent research on library media programs in 16 states directly links
school library media programs to student academic achievement and
higher test scores regardless of the community being rich or poor.
California English Stand-ards recommend that high school student read
one and a half to two million words per year. This translates into
reading 11 pages per day or a 335 page book per month. How can we
keep Yosemite students reading? By providing our students with interesting
up-to-date, quality books. Therefore we need you, the community, to
step in and help us buy books.
At Amazon.com Yosemite High School has created a Wish List of books
we would like to add to the high school library. To purchase a book
for the school all you have to do is visit our Wish List by typing
in Yosemite High School or bblum@yosemiteuhsd.com. View the list and
select one or two to put in your shopping cart. At the purchase point
these books can be shipped directly to YHS. All donors will be recognized
with a book plate and a thank you letter.
Let’s come together and help students achieve in our information society.
Buy a book.
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