The school year is coming to an end and many Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies
(LACES) students have started to submit their elective sheets for the upcoming year. However,
due to the relentless California educational budget cuts, many essential courses are unlikely to be
available for countless students.
For many rising sophomores, Advanced Placement (AP) World History is traditionally
the first AP course many students take and is the course that introduces them into the world of
college level courses. However, because the LACES AP World History teacher, Rachel Klimke,
has been “pink slipped,” a term coined to describe teachers that have received a notification of a
possible layoff, there is a chance that the course will become an online course, a much more cost
effective class with an online teacher and a proctor that monitors exams.
For many other courses at LACES, such as AP Micro or- Macro Economics and
AP Environmental Science priority is given to rising seniors and as a result, rising juniors
and sophomores will be unable to take such courses. Joseph Kim, a rising junior at LACES,
stated, “It’s unfair that that many people [in my grade] will be unable to take interesting AP
courses. These budget cuts are extremely painful and there’s just no end to it.”
Hey Daniel! I think it’s really depressing to see how budget cuts are affecting student learning 🙁 Also I really liked this informative article. However, I think including more quotes from the student body would have made the article stronger. Not only that but you can get some quotes from the faculty too!