Community weighs in on impact of recession on K-12 schools, students

01-27-2010

By Mel Bertrand/UCLA Today

Summer school canceled. Severe cutbacks to classroom supplies. Massive teacher layoffs and swollen class sizes. All this on top of rising poverty and hunger among students and their families. Legislators, parents, community organizers, principals, students and their families gathered at a public briefing on the findings of a recent report by UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education and Access. These were just some of the raw realities discussed by a cross section of speakers who attended a Jan. 22 community briefing that focused on the results of a report released last week by UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA). Entitled “Educational Opportunities in Hard Times,” the report, based on interviews with 87 K-12 principals around the state, shows that conditions in schools have worsened since the recession tightened its grip on families and prompted widespread education budget cuts. (more...)

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