Smaller school districts also cutting instructional days
Smaller districts throughout the state are being forced to shorten their school year in response to the state's budget crisis.
A recent California Watch survey found 16 of the 30 largest districts in the state, with enrollments of 1.4 million students, will be trimming their school year by up to a week of instruction beginning this fall. But there has been no systematic look at what the 1,043 school districts around the states will do. That's in part because changing
California emergency rooms average 274-minute waits
A recent California Watch survey found 16 of the 30 largest districts in the state, with enrollments of 1.4 million students, will be trimming their school year by up to a week of instruction beginning this fall. But there has been no systematic look at what the 1,043 school districts around the states will do. That's in part because changing
California emergency rooms average 274-minute waits
Patients visiting California emergency departments waited an average of four hours, 34 minutes last year. That's two minutes longer than they waited in 2008 and 27 minutes longer than the national average.
The figures are part of a recent analysis of time spent in emergency departments by health care consulting firm Press Ganey. Wait times were based on calculations of more than 1.5 million patients treated at 1,893 hospitals in 2009. Overall, wait times increased an average of four minutes last year.
The figures are part of a recent analysis of time spent in emergency departments by health care consulting firm Press Ganey. Wait times were based on calculations of more than 1.5 million patients treated at 1,893 hospitals in 2009. Overall, wait times increased an average of four minutes last year.
