The superintendent's plan will cut library jobs at 28 schools and turn some libraries into “Team Centers” for students removed from class for disciplinary reasons.
In the upcoming school year, the Houston Independent School District will eliminate librarian positions at more than two dozen schools and use some of the libraries as centers for students who have been removed from their classrooms for disciplinary reasons.
Rumors had swirled about libraries essentially becoming disciplinary centers, but Miles said in a news conference last week that wasn’t the case. “That’s not a place for discipline, that’s a place for kids to learn,” he told reporters. Students will have limited access to the books in these nontraditional libraries, with students able to check out books on an honor system, officials said. An HISD spokesperson told NBC in an email that students can access libraries in the mornings before classes or after school.
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