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LAUSD- Student Walkout at Hamilton High School 3/17/11 at 9:00am - Perdaily.com

LAUSD- Student Walkout at Hamilton High School 3/17/11 at 9:00am - Perdaily.com

LAUSD- Student Walkout at Hamilton High School 3/17/11 at 9:00am

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Subject: Press Release
Contact Olivia Natt
310 422 4791
olivianatt@http://www.facebook.com/l/25beakbYIsDDnhNOSHPNnAe1TDw/yahoo.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

This Friday at 9 am, we, the 3,400 students of Hamilton High School will be walking out of our classrooms, signs in hand, wearing "Save Hami" T-shirts, to demand an education. This is not a school wide "Ditch Day." We are walking out not to avoid our classrooms, but to save them. To protest the terrible budget cuts our school could face. To protest the 22 pink slips handed out to our beloved teachers, to protest the potential closure of our school library. We are walking out to protest the increase of class sizes by 50% or more. And we will walk out to stop our magnets from facing a 90% loss in funding.

LAUSD stands to lose $500 million in funding. To compensate for that loss, LAUSD plans to make extremely deep, disastrous cuts - 90% of our funding is in danger of going away. These cuts would almost entirely