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Los Angeles Unified School District workers rally against budget cuts
- 09-09-2010
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Blog by Ching-Ching Ni/Los Angeles Times
About 150 Los Angeles Unified School District employees and their school-age children rallied outside a shuttered campus Wednesday against state budget cuts that have shortened the academic year and pushed back the start of school. Service Employees International Union Local 99, which represents the district's custodians, bus drivers, cafeteria workers and classroom aides, organized the rally at Virgil Middle School in Koreatown. The district has slashed seven days from the academic year in its effort to eliminate a $640-million deficit, a move critics say will lead to crowded classrooms and reduced student services. Although school traditionally starts the week of Labor Day, the date has been pushed back to Sept. 13. (more…)
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