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Long Beach district to cut five school days
- 05-13-2010
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By Adolfo Guzman-Lopez/KPCC
Students in the Southland’s second-largest public school district are the latest to lose instructional days because of cuts in state education funding. Long Beach Unified’s 87,000 students will not attend classes the week of Thanksgiving. They’ll also have a four-day weekend next March. Leaders of the school district’s teachers’ union agreed to the five furlough days so the district can address an expected $60 million deficit in its budget. “While the shorter school year is not ideal, it is part of a fair agreement that helps us to save jobs and protect students and teachers from even deeper cuts to the classroom,” Long Beach Unified Superintendent Chris Steinhauser said in a statement. (more...)
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