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Central Valley Youth Call on State to fund Education and Alternatives to Incarceration
Youth, parents and community leaders from across the Central Valley will gather at the ESPINO, “Breaking the Schools to Jails Pipeline, Making the Schools to Colleges Pipeline” Summit to discuss and strategize on how to provide quality education, implement alternatives to incarceration and promote access and opportunity to higher education
Central Valley Youth Call on State to fund Education and Alternatives to Incarceration and Cut the California Youth Authority Budget
What: Youth, parents and community leaders from across the Central Valley will gather at the ESPINO, “Breaking the Schools to Jails Pipeline, Making the Schools to Colleges Pipeline” Summit to discuss and strategize on how to provide quality education, implement alternatives to incarceration and promote access and opportunity to higher education. The Governor's budget called for administrators to reduce prison spending by $400 million by 2005. But this year, the Governor approved a $500 million increase in funding for prisons, because the California Department of Corrections overspent its budget. A recent analysis by the Associated Press found that CDC has overspent its budget every year over the last five, to a total of 1.4 billion in overspending. Most of that overspending went to the staffing of prisons. While the Governor proposes modest cuts to prison spending, he proposed slashing $2 billion from K-12 education, $1.3 billion from local governments, and continued with plans to chop $3.9 from social services and health care.
Where & When: Saturday, October 22, 2005
1:00 PM
University of the Pacific, Stockton
Tiger Lounge, Grace Covell Hall
3601 Pacific Avenue
Who: The press conference is organized by Escuelas Si! Pintas No! (Schools Yes! Prisons No!), a Central Valley –wide alliance of organizations that addresses the schools to jails pipeline that many underrepresented youth face in the Central Valley and promotes access to education as well as alternatives to incarceration.
What: Youth, parents and community leaders from across the Central Valley will gather at the ESPINO, “Breaking the Schools to Jails Pipeline, Making the Schools to Colleges Pipeline” Summit to discuss and strategize on how to provide quality education, implement alternatives to incarceration and promote access and opportunity to higher education. The Governor's budget called for administrators to reduce prison spending by $400 million by 2005. But this year, the Governor approved a $500 million increase in funding for prisons, because the California Department of Corrections overspent its budget. A recent analysis by the Associated Press found that CDC has overspent its budget every year over the last five, to a total of 1.4 billion in overspending. Most of that overspending went to the staffing of prisons. While the Governor proposes modest cuts to prison spending, he proposed slashing $2 billion from K-12 education, $1.3 billion from local governments, and continued with plans to chop $3.9 from social services and health care.
Where & When: Saturday, October 22, 2005
1:00 PM
University of the Pacific, Stockton
Tiger Lounge, Grace Covell Hall
3601 Pacific Avenue
Who: The press conference is organized by Escuelas Si! Pintas No! (Schools Yes! Prisons No!), a Central Valley –wide alliance of organizations that addresses the schools to jails pipeline that many underrepresented youth face in the Central Valley and promotes access to education as well as alternatives to incarceration.
For more information:
http://www.espinocoalition.net/summit.html
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