California's Education Outlook: Huge Classes, Shorter School Years, Less Learning

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California's massive 2011-12 budget shortfall won't be closed without big cuts to public education.

The likely result doesn't look pretty.

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California's Education Outlook: Huge Classes, Shorter School Years, Less Learning

"Schools will become more and more like prisons and less and less like schools," said David Plank, a professor of education at Stanford University. "You'll have huge classes, restive young people and overworked teachers."

Sound drastic? So is the budget crisis.

Soon after Gov.-elect Jerry Brown is sworn in next month, he will have to present a budget for 2011-...

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