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2/15/2023 Regular Board of Education Meeting- Part 3 of 3

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Source
YouTube / CUSD Board of Education
Date
2023-02-16
Location
Alameda County, CA
Material
Transcript
Extent
361 words · about 3 min
Collected
2026-06-06

Transcript

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001there's a process for adding books to our library can we get clarification from staff on yes we do have a process it is a 1998 process that currently we are reviewing for the very reason that I think you're bringing up to make sure that we have diversity within our libraries could you when when you or as soon as you come up with something probably within the next month or so maybe you can give a one or two minute account a future meeting yeah we're meeting with the district Librarians say elementary junior high and the high school has each has a librarian we're meeting with them on February 28th to revise the 1998 policy we're looking at other District policies that have them that are more updated than ones we have and we'll be look we'll

002be bringing something back to the board when that gets revised just out of curiosity does the um does the old policy not allow for I mean how would somebody go about adding a book under that policy yeah it's up to the Librarians right now um cases would be where teachers would make recommendations popular books that would um get kids to read one example was Harry Potter books when when I was a principal at Marsh became very popular so they were implemented into our libraries also we have a lot of our schools use the AR Accelerated Reader and so we use their list also for for books um so usually it's a teacher that comes to the Librarians to see if they want to add books that kids would read so do you for the board

003about the progress on that policy change yeah probably not until gosh I would say April okay thank you and it would come back to the board because it's a policy okay well um I mean I still would like that book added so I have a couple okay that's the problem okay well I move that we have a discussion I don't know that should need to be a special board item but I guess it does uh because I'm just not hearing the assurances that I want that this book is going to be added to our libraries um I'm sure it would be donated tomorrow if if there was interest but I would like to put this on the agenda for adding this book to our libraries so I'll make that as a motion is there a

004second the motion fails are there any other requests to agenda as items you asked for a second and there is none that's what I just said I'm asking if there's any other board members who would like to request no okay um all right then we will move on to um adjournment is there a motion to adjourn so I moved we are adjourned

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