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Smaller school districts also cutting instructional days
- 07-27-2010
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By Louis Freedberg/California Watch
Smaller districts throughout the state are being forced to shorten their school year in response to the state's budget crisis. A recent California Watch survey found 16 of the 30 largest districts in the state, with enrollments of 1.4 million students, will be trimming their school year by up to a week of instruction beginning this fall. But there has been no systematic look at what the 1,043 school districts around the states will do. That's in part because changing the school calendar requires negotiating with teachers unions in each district, and those negotiations were only recently completed in most cases. (more...)
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