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Sarah Penn
Krystle Leanza
FRIT 7331/Group 4
Sarah Penn
Krystle Leanza
$3,000 each year and these funds are used to purchase new books from Scholastic
Book Company.
Other fundraising efforts include Read with your Sweetheart and Take a Picture with
your Pet in which a fee of $1.00 is charged to take a photo in front of a special
backdrop. The Birthday Book Program is another fundraising effort in which parents
purchase their childs favorite books to donate to the media center in honor of their
childs birthday. The childs name and birthday are listed inside the front cover of the
donated books.
Adequacy of Funding
The funding received keeps the media center running, but does not allow much
growth. The funds are enough to add new books while replacing older, lost and
damaged ones.
With only 617 books over the required limit, Sallas Mahone Elementary definitely needs
more funds. Due to the fact that every year around $7,500 is taken from the media
center budget to pay for photocopies and subscriptions for the teachers, the budget
takes a drastic hit. That is a lot of books that are not purchased due to this funding
issue. Also, many books are damaged or lost each year by the students. This total
ranges from 200 to 300 books per year and it greatly affects the media centers
collection.
With the focus on 21st century media centers, Sallas Mahone Elementary definitely does
not have the funding available for the technology that is required to promote 21st
century learning. The school does promote the Bring Your own Device (BYOD) initiative,
but teachers are not always equipped with the knowledge required to connect and
work with all the different types of devices the students are using. It would be very
useful to have the funding available to purchase more technology, possibly with mobile
carts, for the students to use in the classrooms. Both the teachers and students would
be able to use more EBooks and Web 2.0 tools to move into becoming 21st century
learners.
FRIT 7331/Group 4
Sarah Penn
Krystle Leanza
References:
Georgia Department of Education. (n.d.). Retrieved October 31, 2015, from
http://www.gadoe.org/Pages/Home.aspx
Our Funding History and its Impact on Georgias Media Centers. (n.d.). Retrieved
October 31, 2015, from http://www.glma-inc.org/wp-content/files/advocacy/Funding
History Chart for School Libraries.pdf
Roesch, E. (2014, June 9). Tentative Budget Board of Education - City of Valdosta, GA
Condensed Summary of Proposed Budget. Retrieved October 31, 2015, from
https://d2ct263enury6r.cloudfront.net/ve7KS6NNjwgXBbSF37hJwJnL4zl5CUACbEotJzVX
wgl4mQcG.pdf