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State of Our Schools: Bigger classes, fewer resources - Students return amid unsettling times for local districts
- 08-27-2010
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By Shanna McCord/ Santa Cruz Sentinel
Welcome back to school, where the troubled state of California's economy has cast a cloud over practically every public classroom across Santa Cruz County. Unsettling changes have taken place at county schools in the wake of the state's $19 billion shortfall that led Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to call for a $2.5 billion reduction in education spending this year. Class sizes have shot up, supply budgets have been slashed, the school year has been shortened and parents are pitching in more than ever to keep schools afloat. This is the new deal in public education as California grapples with back-to- back years of financial challenges described by school officials as the worst anyone can remember. (more...)
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