2024 Elected Board District Library Overview
In 2024, there are three "types" of campus library access at every level:
1. NES - effectively NO LIBRARY.
2. Not NES - campuses with more autonomy and usually better TEA scores still have libraries. The staff may be a certified librarian or teacher, or another person assigned by the principal to manage the library.
3. OTHER - campuses that are not "regular" schools. They may be in-district charters, discipline campuses, or some other kind of unique.
This table shows the variance by Board district.
Total schools listed here is 272, which includes all the special campuses.
The number of schools per district seems a bit random - and it is. Each board member is most closely aligned with schools in the area assigned to them by the voting system; school board districts have approximately the same number of voters but that has no relationship to the number of schools at any level of in total.
1. NES - effectively NO LIBRARY.
2. Not NES - campuses with more autonomy and usually better TEA scores still have libraries. The staff may be a certified librarian or teacher, or another person assigned by the principal to manage the library.
3. OTHER - campuses that are not "regular" schools. They may be in-district charters, discipline campuses, or some other kind of unique.
This table shows the variance by Board district.
Total schools listed here is 272, which includes all the special campuses.
The number of schools per district seems a bit random - and it is. Each board member is most closely aligned with schools in the area assigned to them by the voting system; school board districts have approximately the same number of voters but that has no relationship to the number of schools at any level of in total.
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These three tables break down the numbers by level. This breakdown is important to see access to libraries or the lack of it for different kinds of readers.
Elementary students are just developing their reading skills and their curiosity about the world. Without campus libraries, they can't easily investigate their personal interests. Secondary students - those in middle or high school - need libraries and librarians to begin to understand how to fid the best information for the purpose, whether it is how to build a go-cart or how to write your history paper. |
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