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Archdiocese may be backing off plans to extend school year
- 02-02-2011
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By Carla Rivera/Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Archdiocese officials appear to have backed off of a controversial plan to extend the school year at all of its elementary schools by 20 days, saying that decision is being left up to individual campuses. At an event Tuesday to launch a campaign to boost enrollment at schools run by the archdiocese, Chancellor Mary Elizabeth Galt said the additional days of instruction were "a recommendation." "Our schools are independent and locally governed," she said at Immaculate Conception School downtown. "Many principals wanted the support of the archdiocese. But schools will work with parent boards....The needs are different all over the city." (more...)
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