THE LAUSD SCHOOL BOARD'S PLAN TO CUT ADULT EDUCATION

By Elaine Kirn - Rubin and Arthur Rubin

Due to budgetary considerations, the LAUSD Board of Education is debating the idea of abolishing outright the Division of Adult and Career Education. This can only be described as a disaster in the making.

This decision, which could be made as early as this month, would deny to huge numbers of people invaluable opportunities to get good jobs and keep them, which of course will affect not only them but their families. It will vastly complicate their attempts to navigate their day-to-day lives. They will be effectively locked out of American life – denied the American Dream.

Not to mention the fact that the rest of us will lose out because these people will be deprived of the chance to use their abilities to the fullest.

Talk about “penny-wise and pound-foolish.”

An organization called Occupy LAUSD is in the process of organizing a campaign to pressure the LAUSD board into dropping this misconceived plan. To learn more, please go to http://www.occupylausd.org/