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Districts consider even shorter school year
- 04-26-2011
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By Louis Freedberg/California Report
The likelihood is growing that many school districts will have to cut the number of days students spend in class in response to the state's deepening budget crisis, according to state education leaders and experts. But despite fears that the coming school year could shrink to 150 or 155 days – from the current minimum of 175 days set by the state in 2009 – no firm figures or proposals have been proposed by the state Legislature, State Board of Education or Gov. Jerry Brown. Last month state Treasurer Bill Lockyer suggested the school year might have to be cut by two months to achieve all the anticipated savings should Gov. Brown's tax extension fail. But Lockyer spokesman Tom Dresslar said, "He was just throwing out this as what could happen. ... Nobody has formally proposed that. Everyone is working like hell to avoid making a reduction of that magnitude." (more...)
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