Educators urge no more school cuts in letters to governor

01-07-2010

By Tracy Garcia/Whittier Daily News

Hundreds of letters sent on behalf of cash-strapped school districts statewide - including several in the San Gabriel Valley and Whittier areas - were delivered Wednesday to the governor's office in Sacramento, urging him not to make any more cuts to education. The action was planned by the California School Boards Association just hours after Gov. Schwarzenegger's 10 a.m. State of the State address, with the intent of giving the governor an "eye-opening message" about the severe budget cuts taking place at schools. But even before the first letter was delivered, Schwarzenegger pledged in his speech to protect school funding in the proposed 2010-11 budget he's set to release Friday. "Because our future economic well-being is so dependent upon education," Schwarzenegger said, "I will protect education funding in this budget." (more...)

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