Los Angeles Unified is struggling to cover immense budget gaps for the next school year. The school board is specifically contemplating whether to cut Arts programs and adult education.
Students need as much art appreciation as possible. However, when push comes to shove, students need to learn to read and write. Many adults, recent immigrants to the United States, are catching up on literacy and numeracy skills, also improving their job skills to compete in a shrinking job market.
However, many students in the adult education programs are making up for the poor K-12 education which they received in local LA schools. Instead of investing exorbitant sums of money in post-secondary -- and ultimately remedial -- programs, LA Unified would better invest its dwindling funds in shoring up the poor education that many minors endure, even supplementing students to repeat a grade that they failed in elementary and middle school. Currently, LA Unified cannot even afford the substandard education which many students sit through. Why not divert funds toward charter schools and smaller alternative education programs so that young people have another chance to learn the skills and content which they missed the first time.
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