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Parent urges Banning Unified to equip life-skills classrooms with refrigerators, washer hookups
Summary
At the Aug. 14 board meeting, Maria Lopez Torres urged Banning Unified trustees to fund and install refrigerators, washer hookups and kitchen equipment in middle- and high-school life-skills classrooms, saying lack of appliances prevents hands‑on instruction for students with special needs; trustees asked staff for follow-up information.
At its Aug. 14 regular meeting, the Banning Unified School District board of trustees heard from Maria Lopez Torres, who said the district’s life-skills classrooms lack basic kitchen appliances and that the deficiency prevents students with special needs from receiving hands-on instruction.
"We currently have no refrigerator in our second classroom. In fact, there is no kitchen washer set up in that room either," Lopez Torres said, asking the board and…
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