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Six Flags and Discovery Education are excited to announce the launch of Read to Succeed 2012-2013. We share your commitment to inspiring a lifelong love of learning in students and now, K-6 students who complete six hours of recreational reading can earn a free Six Flags ticket. Best of all, teachers win too!
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Protesters rally for tax plan to avoid school cuts
Educators, school supporters stage waterfront rally in advance of new budget proposal
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Stephanie Martin, PFT Elem. VP & Kelly Logan, PFT Director
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By Maureen Magee and Nathan Max
Friday, May 13, 2011 at 7:58 p.m.
Thousands of teachers and school advocates from around San Diego County rallied at the Embarcadero on Friday to support public education — and the proposed tax extensions that could protect schools from potentially devastating cuts.
With many dressed in colorful union T-shirts and carrying banners, demonstrators planted 4,108 pink flags on the bayfront to represent each teacher layoff notice issued in San Diego, Riverside, Orange, Imperial and San Bernardino counties.
The protest was among several that unfolded on Friday throughout California and at the state Capitol
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| — wrapping up the weeklong “State of Emergency” campaign to urge legislators to protect schools from baring the brunt of the state’s fiscal crisis. Read more... |
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