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Big cuts, high anxiety in Cupertino
- 03-05-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Families in Cupertino Union School District are anguished over their schools. They thought that they had largely solved their district’s financial problems a year ago when they passed their first parcel tax, raising $4 million. But now this K-8 Silicon Valley district, home of Apple Computer and some of the highest performing schools in the state, is facing a $9 million deficit for next year. And that’s putting in jeopardy many of the programs parents consider essential: small classes, summer school, the GATE program for gifted children, librarians. On Thursday evening, when thousands of Bay Area teachers, students and supporters joined a protest in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza, 300 or so Cupertino parents gathered in a middle school gym to hear how the state’s funding crisis has finally hit home and to plot what they can do about it. (more...)
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