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UCLA Magazine - 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-aged researchers who presented their findings at Los Angeles City Hall earlier this month.
The group — the Council of Youth Research, sponsored by UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access — 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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