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Teachers to rally, push to prevent education budget cuts
- 05-09-2011
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By Sharon Noguchi/San Jose Mercury News
Teachers and other education advocates will converge on Sacramento on Monday -- some planning to sit in at the Capitol Rotunda -- to draw attention to potentially devastating cutbacks in schools and to prod the Legislature to mend a gaping hole in the state budget. "It is catastrophic. It's absolutely devastating," said Lynne Formigli, a sixth-grade teacher at Santa Clara's Cabrillo Middle School who is using her personal-leave time to lobby and protest in Sacramento for the week. Aside from the Sacramento rallies, the California Teachers Association is planning statewide activities that include a "grade-in" on Tuesday, meetings about the budget, neighborhood canvassing and, on Friday, regional rallies in its "State of Emergency" campaign. The 15,000-student Santa Clara Unified School District will lose librarians, after-school tutoring programs and aides to help language-learners. And that's assuming that the tax extensions that Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed pass. (more...)
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