In the News: The Bed-Stuy Library

A little more love from the NY Daily News:

Is it too much to want a school library? For students at four Bedford-Stuyvesant public schools that share a building, it apparently is.

"Our kids want to read, but we don't have books," said Elizabeth Glenney, a sixth-grade English teacher at Urban School for the Environment, one of the schools in the building on Tompkins Ave. "I feel like we're failing them."

The school has started a library fund with $10,000 donated by the makers of a documentary film called "Brownstones to Red Dirt," which focuses on a pen pal program between Environment School sixth-graders and a group of orphans from Sierra Leone.

The schools need about $150,000 to get a full-fledged library running.