California school libraries blindsided by ‘catastrophic’ budget cut

California school libraries blindsided by ‘catastrophic’ budget cut
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Students in a sixth-grade class read at Stege Elementary School in Richmond, on Feb. 6, 2023.(Shelby Knowles / CalMatters)California librarians were stunned when a last-minute budget change stripped K-12 schools of a trove of research materials, potentially leaving thousands of students without r...