Currently, public schools in Arizona face more than $1 billion in budget cuts by March 1, partly as a result of a spending limit that was approved by voters in the 1980s. The state's Superintendent for Public Instruction, Kathy Hoffman, painted a bleak picture for education during her State of Education address on Feb. 8.
By City News Service
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HOLLYWOOD (CNS) - Weeks before stepping down as head of the nation s second-largest public school system, Superintendent Austin Beutner today hailed what amounted to an overhaul of the Los Angeles Unified amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and he urged continued partnerships between schools and the community to set a “new standard of excellence.
Speaking from the stage of the iconic Hollywood Bowl, Beutner delivered a State of the Schools Address designed to “celebrate public education, and it served to recap a tumultuous year that saw an on-the-fly rethinking of how students learn amid a global pandemic. And it offered a positive view toward the future thanks to progress he outlined not just from the past year, but during his three years at the helm of the district.