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Lowell Alumni Association strives to reconnect our graduates through
alumni events and to support the further development of our alma mater
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: Welcome Alumni!
Despite a preliminary budget for the 2010-11 school year that would
have required drastic reductions in course offerings,
average class sizes of more than 35 students and the elimination of
more than 10 percent of the faculty and staff, recent
developments have narrowed the budget gap but still leave us more than
$500,000 short of the funding needed to maintain critical
programs and services. Early this year, the San Francisco Unified
School District sent Lowell a preliminary budget that would
have resulted in a $2 million shortfall, due in large part to an
unexpected one-third cut to funding for Lowell’s
nationally-recognized
Advanced Placement program.
The most troublesome aspect of the preliminary budget wasn’t
the fact that it included additional cutbacks — given the
reality of continuing reductions in state funding for public education
— but that Lowell was receiving a disproportionate
share of the budget cuts when compared to the city’s other
large high schools. Lowell was being asked to take a 15 percent
budget cut compared to cuts of half that size at comparably-sized
schools.
Read more by downloading the latest Alumni Newsletter.
(PDF)
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