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With Georgia facing a $2 billion budget shortfall, Seth Harp, chairman of the state senate's higher-education committee, has proposed merging historically black public universities with mostly white schools nearby to cut administrative costs. Among other drawbacks, critics say, the move could mean fewer scholarships, larger classes and teacher layoffs. But race is the thorniest issue by far. "We've made tremendous progress in Georgia," says Harp. "I just think it's the right time to get rid of this vestige of legal segregation." (See pictures of a diverse group of American teens...
...nook, the library at San Diego's Willard B. Hage Elementary School is the perfect place for children to fall in love with reading. Since the start of the school year, however, the library has been off-limits to students, who get to go there only when (already overworked) teachers can escort them and handle the record-keeping. "With all of the cutbacks we've had in the last few years, the district can't pay for someone to help check out books," explains Pam Wiesenberg, a third-grade teacher at the school. "As a result, the children suffer...
...Senate are haggling over versions that include at least $80 billion for education programs, a significant bump up from the Education Department's $59 billion discretionary budget for fiscal 2008. But there's a catch: a big chunk of the stimulus money that is designed to prevent massive teacher layoffs will be awarded only to states that spend at least as much on education as they did in 2006 - a tall order given that a minimum of 42 states are facing significant budget gaps. At least 20 states have already cut their K-12 budgets...
...Diego Unified School District, says his district needs a cash influx now. "There are schools in our district that don't even have nurses on certain days," says Grier, whose district includes Hage Elementary School and its shuttered stacks. "If a kid skins his elbow, a teacher has to take time out of her lesson to dust him off, clean him up and put on a Band...
Back in San Diego, at Hage Elementary, teachers desperate for help in the school library are recruiting parent volunteers to staff the facility a few days each week. Juli Finney, president of the school's Parent-Teacher Association, admits that while this solution isn't ideal, it is precisely the kind of effort she and other parents must make to ensure that state budget cuts don't deny their children the chance to experience the thousands of books that are now quite literally behind closed doors. "Technically, the PTA is supposed to put icing on the cake and not provide...