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Video featuring Megan Fox blasts state school cuts
- 04-08-2010
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By Connie Llanos/Los Angeles Daily News
Frustrated with the stream of recent budget cuts that have left California schools overcrowded and understaffed, a group of Hollywood-savvy parents decided to go viral with their ire Wednesday. Local parents from Wonderland Avenue Elementary, a Los Angeles Unified School in the Hollywood Hills, recruited the help of celebrity couple Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green, as well as producers at the comedy Web site www.funnyordie.com, to put together a video that urges state officials to restore education funding. Posted Wednesday morning, the video had more than 147,000 views by early evening. "Our hope was not to make a video that would fix everything, but to make a video that could help start a movement," said Green, a parent of a second-grader at Wonderland Avenue who is best known for starring in the original "Beverly Hills 90210" series. (more...)
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