Study shows effects of state budget cuts on school districts

03-23-2011

By Canan Tasci/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

California's high school principals report their campuses are providing less time and attention and fewer quality programs for their students as a result of continuous deep cuts to education, according to a study that UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education and Access released this week. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson also released a report that shows 2 million state students - or 30 percent of pupils - attend a financially troubled school. "The bottom line is the schools are suffering cuts that profoundly affect students day in and day out," Torlakson said in a conference call Monday. "It's making it harder for our students to do things we all once took for granted, like seeing a school counselor, getting help to make a pathway to college, getting time to ask a teacher a question in our ever-increasingly crowded classrooms and learning from an up-to-date textbook." (more...)

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