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DESCRIPTION:Defend Equal Access to Quality Education for All!\n“No Cuts to Education 
 - K-12 to the Universities”\n\nThursday, March 4 at 5pm\nRally in San 
 Francisco – Civic Center Plaza\n\nIt is time for us to stand together to 
 defend education. In the elementary schools, class sizes are going up, and 
 programs are being cut. In many schools art, music and P.E. programs have 
 been eliminated. Schools are being closed or transferred to private 
 companies to run as charter schools.\n\nMiddle schools and high schools are 
 overcrowded with fewer resources and support systems for students and 
 teachers.\nThe community colleges are canceling classes, cutting counseling 
 and other support services. Tens of thousands of students are being denied 
 access to this essential education.\nThe UCs and CSUs are doing the same, 
 cutting jobs and classes and raising fees beyond the reach of most people 
 in the state.\n\nThis attack on the children and youth is an attack on us 
 all. It\nis an attack on our future. People across the state have been 
 under attack – with layoffs, falling wages, unemployment and evictions. 
 And there are fewer public services to provide any support.\n\nWe often 
 face these attacks alone, but education unites us all. We need to stand 
 together. We must stand together. We are the family, friends, neighbors, 
 teachers, staff and students who make up this system of education. We are 
 more than six million students in the K-12 system, nearly three million 
 community college students, and 670,000 students in the CSUs and UCs. 
 Mobilized together, we can be a powerful force.\n\nWe have a choice in 
 front of us. People across the state know that something needs to be done. 
 We face a looming budget deficit for the years ahead and the attacks will 
 continue. Meanwhile we live in a state with enormous wealth, home to 
 multi-billion dollar banks and corporations.\n\nWe have an opportunity to 
 stand together and begin to organize and mobilize our forces. Our future 
 and the future of young people across the state and nation is at stake. 
 What happens next depends on us all.\n\nJoin us 5pm Thursday, March 4th 
 (assemble at 4:30)\nCivic Center San Francisco (Civic Center 
 BART)\n\nContact us: www.againstcuts.org\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/02/23/18638555.php
SUMMARY:Rally Against the Cuts to Education – March 4th, 5pm San Francisco Civic Center
LOCATION:Civic Center Plaza (Right next to Civic Center BART)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/02/23/18638555.php
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