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Worsening education budgets require new strategies
- 02-18-2010
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By Lisa Schiff/Beyond Chron
From the promising to the discouragingly persistent, so many important issues are facing San Francisco public schools right now. Between the vision of new programs such as ethnic studies at the high school level and expanded language immersion, to reducing truancy and tackling school safety and even the almost complete new student assignment policy, there is so much for us to be discussing, debating, working out and putting into practice. But as important as all of these issues are, each one of them is trumped by the budget crisis, which has grown from a perpetual disaster mostly held at bay to a looming tidal wave with time running out to contain its destructive force. (more...)
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