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Thursday, November 3, 2011

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Cuts have been a disaster for public ed

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Cuts have been a disaster for public ed:

Cuts have been a disaster for public ed

Cuts have been a disaster for public ed

Huffington's Joy Resmovitz reports that a UFT survey of 900 New York City schools finds that three quarters of elementary schools, 61 percent of middle schools and 59 percent of high schools had increased class sizes.
"What we know is what we feared was happening," [UFT Pres. Mike] Mulgrew says. "Now, all 1 million of our students are ... having their education negatively affected by