Proposed education cuts protested

02-10-2010

By Maureen Magee/San Diego Union Tribune

Hundreds of teachers, parents and students rallied in the rain yesterday to protest millions of dollars in proposed cuts to the San Diego Unified School District’s budget and a contract offer that calls for slicing educators’ pay by 8 percent. Some of the most popular programs offered by the state’s second-largest district are once again on the chopping block — including suspending for two years the weeklong student seminars in Old Town, Balboa Park and Camp Palomar. Roughly $39 million in cuts were proposed as part of the school board’s “priority-based budget” process, designed to protect the most essential goals. The school board made no decisions last night and withheld any significant comment on specific cuts that were proposed by its staff. (more...)

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