Rally Urges Lawmakers to Avoid Education Cuts
Hundreds of people, including students, teachers, administrators and support staff, marched before school Wednesday to demand that state lawmakers find ways to avoid huge spending cuts in education.
Culver City Unified School District Superintendent Curtis Rethmeyer couldn’t recall a time when management and labor were united with parents and students on an issue. “Not in my memory, at least, and that goes about 20 years back. So that’s really something, I think,” he said.
That may be why the marchers outside La Ballona Elementary School on Washington Boulevard called themselves The Unusual Coalition.
About 100 district employees in Culver City, including some teachers and support staff, have been let go.
During the noon hour, a rally in Pasadena attracted hundreds of students and teachers who voiced similar concerns about looming educational cuts by a state confronted with an estimated $15-billion deficit.
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