Senate Rejects Reed Proposal
Staff -- School Library Journal, 10/1/2003
The House has already approved $27.5 million for school libraries, the amount called for in the President's 2004 budget. Now both Houses must resolve their differences over funding levels, says Mary Costabile, of the American Library Association's office of government relations. Last year, federal monies for school libraries were appropriated at $12.5 million, a sum that was barely sufficient to fund about 10 percent of 1,000 grant applications.
