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Board of Education To Adopt Resolution Supporting March 4 Protests
posted: March 9th, 2010 11:51 am |
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The Newport-Mesa Unified School District’s Board of Education is poised to adopt a resolution that endorses last week’s teacher protests, calling state budget cuts to education “historic” and “unlike anything we’ve seen since the Great Depression.”
On March 4, teachers, parents, students and administrators throughout the state wore blue, handed out fliers and rallied to protest “against the state budget cuts that are destroying the future for a generation of students and the future of California,” according to the district’s agenda for tonight’s meeting. The resolution also states that investing in public education is essential to the future of this state and that it is “crucial to find a solution to ongoing and long-term assaults on public education funding.”
Read the entire resolution by clicking on the district’s website’s agenda for tonight here. Read our stories from last week’s protesthere and here.
The Board of Education also will present employee Super Star Awards, including award to Kristin Botta, a fourth-grade teacher at Harbor View, and Brandon Fischer, a math teacher and student government advisor at Corona del Mar High School.
The meeting begins at 7 p.m. at 2985 Bear Street in Costa Mesa and is open to the public.
