In front of around 100 educators on Wednesday, Fresno Teachers Association President Manuel Bonilla said that Fresno Unified does not have to cut its Designated Schools program that provides 30 additional instruction minutes to over 24,000 students each day.
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About 100 Fresno Unified educators slammed the state’s third-largest school system for its “unilateral” decision to eliminate a decadelong initiative for underserved students during a news conference Wednesday evening.
The district’s decision-making is being challenged as leaders face pushback for getting rid of a student-focused program that, from the district’s perspective, isn’t consistently meeting the needs of those students.
The district will cut its Designated Schools program, an initiative to improve student achievement through additional daily instruction. The district announced in January that…
