Students,parents, teachers, and employees of Oakland's public schools crowded into the La Escuelita Elementary School Auditorium final night to vent their frustrations approximately impending multimillion-dollar budget cuts.
"We had to have a cleaning supply drive this year," Darcie Luce, the parent of a special education student at Emerson Elementary incredulously told the school board. Budget cuts and spending freezes implemented by the district earlier this year have prevented Emerson staff from using school funds to buy basic necessities like mops and paper towels.…
Source: eastbayexpress.com