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LAUSD plan to cut instructional days gets mixed reviews
- 03-30-2010
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By Adolfo Guzman-Lopez/KPCC
Teachers are giving mixed reviews to a cost-cutting proposal the Los Angeles Unified School District and its teachers union announced during the weekend. The plan, still subject to approval by the union's rank and file, would shorten the current and following school year to help close a state funding deficit. If United Teachers Los Angeles and other unions approve, the district’s 600,000 students will lose five days this academic year, and seven days next year. Roosevelt High School English teacher Brendan Schallert said he prefers this option over a cut in his salary. "Yeah, if the people of California aren’t paying for an entire school year as we know it, they’re not going to get an entire school year." Teachers will count the days cut from the year as unpaid days off. Union president A.J. Duffy called the agreement a “fair deal.” (more...)
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