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Two unions say they are willing to negotiate a cut in the L.A. Unified school year
- 02-16-2010
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By Jason Song/Los Angeles Times
Esther Lee says she plans every minute of her seventh-grade science classes at Berendo Middle School in Koreatown. "For a lot of my students, their only connection to academics is in school . . . so I feel I can never waste time," she said. But under a plan proposed by Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. Ramon C. Cortines, Lee could be chopping a week off her schedule as early as this spring to help district officials balance a projected $640-million shortfall. California school districts have the option of shortening the school year without losing key state funding for the next several years, and at least one other district has moved to shorten its calendar. Others, up and down the state, are considering the option. (more...)
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