School’s Out for the Summer

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Posted on May 30, 2009

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Budget cuts will have a significant impact on children in some of L.A.‘s poorest communities.

Students who are signed up for summer school are the latest victims to fall through California’s ginormous budget gap. On Friday, the superintendent of Los Angeles schools announced cancellations that will send packing most of the 225,000 kids who benefit from these programs each year, from elementary through high school, to the bewilderment of some working parents and concerned teachers. 

The New York Times:

Most summer school programs for students from elementary through high school will be canceled this year, the latest casualty of California’s widening budget gap, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District said Friday.

Core curriculum courses, available only to those who need credits to graduate, will remain open, the superintendent, Raymond C. Cortines, said. But other summer classes will not be offered, nor will non-academic programs like recreational activities for younger children, Mr. Cortines said, leaving many whose parents work at loose ends.

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By California Father, May 30, 2009 at 5:55 pm Link to this comment
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Correct, Virginia777.  Seemed like it was a good month for public school bashing in May, witness New Yorker’s gee-whiz story about Green Dot and David Brooks’ similarly mindless praise of the Promise Academy.  So discouraging when journalists don’t do their jobs.

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By Stuart Goldurs, May 30, 2009 at 3:30 pm Link to this comment
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LAUSD needs to be obliterated!  Every penny must go the schools. Each school should be a charter with no big brother watching over its shoulder. For years LAUSD has wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on outside firms, wasteful bureaucracy, overemphasis on testing, and unneeded rented offices. School are here to educate children for their future and for life.

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By enoughnow, May 30, 2009 at 12:56 pm Link to this comment
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In a small northern ca town, the new superintendent of public schools, in a town of 50,000, is paid 250k plus 950k signing and “relocation” pay. A prison guard I know earns 30k more than the 25 year veteran co-pilot on the US AIR Hudson River flight and will earn 95 % pay in retirement as opposed to no pension for the co-pilot. There exist one useless board after another (air resources , waste, etc.) paying members six figure salaries to attend a couple of meetings a year. And now, as predicted, the state will respond with cuts that are designed to impact with the most pain. “Take that you bastard taxpayers, we’ll show you how we extort money from the private sector. Feel the pain or pay what we ask.” We’ve got nothing left to pay..so sorry, but this ain’t no recession folks, it’s a reset of our economy. Most of us in the private sector stopped making money a long time ago, and the the actions of state agencies such as lausd will only add to the anger and desire for real change that I’m afraid won’t bode well for state employees. The corporate game of wage destruction in the grand race to the bottom for the middle class is, as predicted, moving right along on schedule and the ultimate effects, coming to a state near you.

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By diamond, May 30, 2009 at 12:32 pm Link to this comment

When you pay taxes you buy civilisation, so the saying goes. Now California will find out what it’s like when you don’t pay for civilisation.

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By Virginia777, May 30, 2009 at 10:21 am Link to this comment

I don’t find it a coincidence, that the Los Angeles Times published a super-inflammatory, half-factual, article bashing LAUSD just this May. (May 9th, 2009)

The article was called nothing less than, “Teachers: Accused of sexual abuse, but back in the classroom” and generated hundreds of comments on their website attacking LAUSD, its kids, their parents AND the Teacher’s Union.

Mission accomplished.

The L.A. Times has been hammering away at LAUSD, eroding public support for it by the millions. And so, when billions are slashed from its budget, just watch how little outcry there is.

Thanks to unethical media in California.

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