History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
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Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
We must reinvest in the California dream
- 05-16-2011
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Opinion by Richard Barrera/San Diego Union-Tribune
Richard Barrera is president of the San Diego Unified school board
A generation ago, California led the nation in investing in public education, from preschool through K-12, and continuing through our community colleges, our California State University and our University of California systems. Many of us owe the quality of our lives to this investment by an earlier generation of Californians, and we take great pride in knowing that a world connected by the Internet, with a vision of a clean, green and just future, is possible because of this investment. But over the last three years, state leaders have turned their backs on our parents’ investment by devastating public education with $18 billion in cuts and the potential for billions more next year. If these cuts from Sacramento continue, it will mean disaster for our local schools – overcrowded classrooms, dirty and unsafe campuses, and a dumbed-down curriculum that neglects science, music and the arts. (more...)
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