Sunday, August 28, 2011

4LAKids - Back2School: DISASTERS AVERTED FOR NOW

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Back2School: DISASTERS AVERTED FOR NOW:

Back2School: DISASTERS AVERTED FOR NOW

BY ROB KUZNIA STAFF WRITER - DAILY BREEZE | HTTP://BIT.LY/MYWESY

,<< When Leuzinger High students return to school on Monday, they will be welcomed with a state of the art addition which features 44 new classrooms. (SCOTT VARLEY)

08/28/2011 - all the talk of doom and gloom in the world of education, most K-12 schools in the South Bay are poised to begin the 2011-12 school year having suffered only an incremental erosion of resources rather than cataclysmic cuts.

But that's only because many districts already have made the deep reductions necessary to weather the shift in the economic climate. In Torrance Unified, for instance, the "doom and gloom" scenario has already arrived. Others, such as El Segundo Unified, are dipping into reserves to hold it together.

The lucky ones, such as Manhattan Beach Unified, are the beneficiaries of increasingly generous campaigns to maintain programs in