{"id":664920,"date":"2010-02-15T14:47:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T19:47:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:36:16","slug":"l-a-may-cut-school-year-by-six-days-will-students-suffer-what-do-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/664920","title":{"rendered":"L.A. may cut school year by six days. Will students suffer? What do you think?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a55d0d3c970b-600wi\" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a55d0d3c970b-600wi\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/talk-back\/\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Talk back L.A.\" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a7ff41ff970b-500pi\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 5px 5px 0pt\" title=\"Talk back L.A.\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest idea for easing the Los Angeles Unified School District&#8217;s financial crisis might actually be popular\u00a0 &#8212; with elementary school students.<\/p>\n<p>Supt. Ramon C. Cortines proposed Friday cutting six days from the school year to help reduce an estimated $640-million deficit and avoid the need for widespread layoffs in the nation&#8217;s second-largest school system.<\/p>\n<p>The Times&#8217; Jason Song reports Cortines&#8217; proposal is somewhat unexpected. Cortines has repeatedly said that he did not want to shorten the school year.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the reduction would save the district $90 million and could spare up to 5,000 jobs. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Do I think [this] is good education policy? No,&quot; Cortines said. &quot;But we are in a real crisis.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Share your views below.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo credit: Los Angeles Times<\/em><br \/><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest idea for easing the Los Angeles Unified School District&#8217;s financial crisis might actually be popular\u00a0 &#8212; with elementary school students. Supt. Ramon C. Cortines proposed Friday cutting six days from the school year to help reduce an estimated $640-million deficit and avoid the need for widespread layoffs in the nation&#8217;s second-largest school system. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2MYw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766339,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664920\/revisions\/766339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}