Jennifer Morzos (recorded as Jennifer Morzoz in the sign-up) addressed the board during the citizen-comment period on behalf of elementary librarians and asked the district to recode elementary teacher-librarians as classroom teachers so they qualify for the Teacher Retirement Allotment (TRA) $5,000 designation.<\/p>\n
Morzos said she left classroom teaching after 25 years to work in school libraries and described her instructional duties: multiple daily classes teaching reading\/language arts reinforcement, digital citizenship, media literacy, and accommodations for students with special education needs. She said the district’s TRA statute definition of a classroom teacher matches the duties performed by elementary teacher-librarians and cited recent coding changes for dyslexia therapists and examples from other Texas districts (Conroe ISD hiring schedule referenced) where librarians are coded with teachers.<\/p>\n
Morzos asked trustees to recode LISD elementary teacher-librarians so the state would fund the $5,000 TRA allotment. She said the allotment would help retain teacher-librarians and support literacy work across campuses. Morzos concluded by asking the board to consider the reclassification; the public record does not show an immediate board response beyond acknowledgment and thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Morzos (recorded as Jennifer Morzoz in the sign-up) addressed the board during the citizen-comment period on behalf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-31384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}