Arts high school students walk out to protest proposed budget cuts
More than 1,000 students from the Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts walked from their downtown campus to school district headquarters Tuesday afternoon to protest budget cuts that have the potential to devastate the school’s arts program.
The high school opened three years ago as the district’s flagship arts program in a gleaming, high-tech campus on the north edge of downtown. The school has struggled with a series of principals and other issues, but also
