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Budget cuts affect schools differently, youths find

UCLA Today - August 12, 2009

By Melanie Bertrand

California’s education funding has been cut by $17 billion in the last two budget deals, and schools are suffering. But some students are hurting more than others, according to a group of high school student researchers who presented their findings at Los Angeles City Hall on Friday, August 7. 

This group — the Council of Youth Research, sponsored by UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA) — spent the last five weeks researching educational opportunities in Los Angeles-area schools and neighborhoods and found that the economic crisis is hitting students of color especially hard.

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