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Parents and teachers urge board to preserve Carpinteria Family School and GATE as district proposes cuts
Summary
Dozens of parents, students and teachers urged the Carpinteria Unified School District board Feb. 11 to keep Carpinteria Family School and the district's GATE program amid budget-reduction proposals. Speakers offered alternatives and warned that eliminating those programs would reduce choice and could accelerate enrollment losses.
Dozens of parents, students and teachers told the Carpinteria Unified School District board on Feb. 11 that proposed budget reductions that would eliminate the district's GATE program and shrink or close Carpinteria Family School (CFS) would damage educational choice and harm student outcomes.
Speakers from family-school families, current and former teachers, student representatives and a district GATE coordinator described academic, social and community benefits they said would be lost if the programs end.
"GATE is being considered for elimination next school year," said Crystal Marshall, who introduced herself as the district's gifted education coordinator. "I strive to be the educator advocate that I needed as a child. All students deserve to make one year's worth of academic growth each school year." She said third graders in the program had been building a robot the same day…
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