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San Jose: East Side community protests proposed school staff cuts
- 03-19-2010
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By Brandon Bailey/San Jose Mercury News
Hundreds of upset parents, students, teachers and other school workers crowded into the board room of the East Side Union High School District on Thursday night, raising alarm over a proposed budget that would cut deep into support services for the district's 25,000 students. "It's an Alice in Wonderland vision of how a school district should work," complained Jerry Dyer, who teaches English at Silver Creek High School in San Jose. "Our kids are innocent victims" of the proposed cuts, added Diane Blaylock Walker, a mother of two students at Santa Teresa High School and one of several parents who said they worried about the loss of student advisers, social workers, librarians and other support staff. (more...)
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