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L.A. students fight for quality education as their teachers get layoff notices
- 03-16-2011
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Column by Steve Lopez/Los Angeles Times
The news rippled across the campus Friday morning, and students were falling apart. They texted their parents and sought out one another to see if it could all be true. "I saw kids crying in the quad," said Portia Amofa, student body president at Hamilton High School in West Los Angeles. The students were finding out that some of their favorite teachers were among roughly 7,000 in L.A. Unified who had gotten layoff notices. In addition, the directors of two enormously popular and successful Hamilton programs, the humanities magnet and the music magnet, had been told by L.A. Unified that their positions were being eliminated. It's still early in the game, and some teachers who got layoff notices may keep their jobs in the end. But things don't look good, given anticipated funding cuts from Sacramento. (more...)
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