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April 22, 2005
| Teachers, parents, students storm district office |
Two hours of emotional testimonies
By Bea Baechle
Editor
Forget the fact that more than two-thirds of the East Side Union High School District’s pink slips will eventually be rescinded and very few teachers will actually be laid off.
The 200-some teachers, parents and students who marched down Capitol Avenue and stormed the ESUHSD’s April 14 board meeting needed to vent.
Dressed in black t-shirts, many with numbers draped across their chests, they chanted their way to the meeting and taped together more than 900 pseudo pink slips to demonstrate the depth of the layoff notices.
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Mayor, City Council derail Evergreen Visioning Project
By Bea Baechle
Editor
Call together the Evergreen Visioning Task Force for a meeting and the members could rattle on for hours, months and even years with hundreds of varying viewpoints and implications about the future development of District 8.
Coming to consensus on anything is a monumental task because the stakes are high and the final decisions will permanently alter the landscape of the neighborhoods they live in—the neighborhoods they love.
Yet ask this same group Read
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