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Parents, officials testify about educational impacts of budget cuts
- 05-02-2011
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By Canan Tasci Staff Writer/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Abigail Medina worries her five children in the San Bernardino City Unified School District will never achieve their dreams of being a pediatrician, teacher or inventor. Testifying in front of a group of state senators and a crowd of more than 100 at a Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee hearing, Medina put a face to the way the lack of state educational funding is affecting children's futures. "These cuts to education worry me because I'm in a district that is high in poverty and I'm trying to get the best education for my children...," Medina said. "And I don't think the state has made that connection to how real families have to face these real cuts." The committee hearing on Friday at Cal Poly Pomona was the first of three to be held around the state. (more...)
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