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Santa Cruz school boards gather to discuss budget cuts
- 01-15-2010
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By Megha Satyanarayana/Santa Cruz Sentinel
The message at a Thursday night meeting of school leaders from across Santa Cruz County was to prepare for the pain of budget cuts, but to try to fight them. "Tell your stories to your local legislator, talk about the pain local communities are feeling. You're not going to keep it business as usual," said Chris Ungar, California School Board Association Region 9 director, which includes Santa Cruz, San Benito, Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties. Ungar along with former Assemblyman John Laird and Rick Pratt, assistant executive director of governmental relations for the California School Board Association, chaired a panel discussion at Scotts Valley High School on the governor's proposed budget, which he said would preserve education funding. (more...)
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