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Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
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Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Paying the price for cuts
- 08-09-2010
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By Maureen Magee/San Diego Union-Tribune
Class sizes have shot up and the school year has been shortened throughout San Diego County. Parents are stepping up efforts to stock classrooms by donating everything from flash drives to cleaning supplies. And in La Mesa and Spring Valley, teachers have been directed to cut pink erasers in half to stretch supplies. Welcome back to school amid California’s worst fiscal crisis in memory. Students and teachers are streaming back to the classroom only to discover their schools have become inventory-conscious institutions that have been cut to the bone. (more...)
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