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School board members agonize over cutting school year
- 07-16-2010
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By Rupa Dev/New America Media
For school board members at districts around the state, the decision to shorten a school year has been an agonizing one – made only after other drastic cuts have already been implemented. Interviews by New America Media with elected board members from diverse backgrounds in several California districts underscore how being a school board member - long viewed as a starting point for higher political office – has become an exercise in decision making of the toughest kind. “We’ve moved from saying ‘no, never, we can’t cut that, to ‘which of the horrible options in front of us are possibilities to cut?’” said Mónica García, Los Angeles Unified Board president. (more...)
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