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Students, alumni urge board to reverse decision to cut Highland High broadcasting program
Summary
Multiple Highland High students told the Gilbert Unified District board that the school's broadcasting and film-production classes provide career pathways, awards and mental-health supports and urged reconsideration of a reported decision to cut the program next year.
Multiple Highland High students and recent program participants told the Gilbert Unified District governing board on May 20 that the districtplans to cut the Highland broadcasting and film-production program next school year and urged the board to reverse that decision.
During the public-comment period, Jacob Fredericks, a Highland senior and longtime student in the broadcasting program, said the class "helped me find my passion" and that he had performed play-by-play on the NFHS network. "I urge you to think about the message you're sending by cutting 1 of, to me, Highland's most important programs," Fredericks said. Several other students, including Caden Covert,…
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