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L.A. school board OKs plan to revamp Huntington Park High
- 05-11-2011
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By Howard Blume/Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday approved a plan under which at least half the teachers and other employees at Huntington Park High School will be replaced by early July, when the new academic year begins at the year-round campus. The board action, approved unanimously and virtually without comment, came as an emotional demonstration took place on the streets outside the crowded meeting room at the district's headquarters, just west of downtown. About 300 Huntington Park High students rallied in defense of their teachers after a roughly seven-mile march from the campus that followed a morning walkout. "We don't want our teachers fired," said 11th-grader Jonathan Rojo. "The school will be messed up and disorganized." (more...)
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