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Article: Seven School Days, 300 Teaching Jobs May Be Cut in D.C.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 1, 1995
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D.C. School Superintendent Franklin L. Smith has recommended
cutting seven days of classes and eliminating 300 teaching positions
to meet demands for nearly $32 million in budget reductions prompted
by the District's fiscal crisis.
The seven days would be taken from the end of the school year, so
classes would end June 9. Students already have missed three days
because a judge delayed the opening of school after she found that
thousands of fire code violations had not been remedied.
A school board committee that was scheduled to vote on Smith's
proposal yesterday did not take any action after some members said
they were troubled by the proposal and two others said they wanted to
take even ...