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Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between District and Halima Dotson Franklin, Berkeley, CA, for the latter to provide 240 hours to provide library instruction and resources, coordinate the Reading Is Fundamental Book Program and the Scholastic Book Fair, attend library meetings and trainings to update the electronic research and data files for teachers and students, bring back updated book lists from the library meetings, purchase library and supplementary books for students and teachers, work with students, parents and teachers to extend the community-based literacy program through the library, develop and expland the school-to-home program by working with students weekly and parents monthly through the School Site Council meetings, work with small groups of students three times a week for one class period to improve their reading skills and to improve their test scores, provide resources for students and teachers to improve reading instruction, students will gain access to computers through the school-to-home literacy program through monthly scheduled workshops in the library at Frick Middle School, for the period March 5, 2012 through June 30, 2012, in a not to exceed amount of $21,000.00.