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Cuts to public education has left schools scrambling, just to keep the doors open. york city school district has until june 30th to close a budget shortfall that now stands at $29 million. school officials are seriously considering a range of options to close the gap, such as requiring staff to work fewer hours during the summer, imposing a 17% property tax increase, and closing the district's two middle schools, combining those grades with the elementary school. 50 teachers have already been laid off and there will be more. the district is also can considering eliminating programs and positio...

School officials are seriously considering a range of options to close the gap, such as requiring staff to work fewer hours during the summer, imposing a 17% property tax increase, and closing the district's two middle schools, combining those grades with the elementary school. 50 teachers have already been laid off and there will be more. the district is also can considering eliminating programs and positions like guidance counselors, art programs, gym, choir, band, kindergarten glasses, and not all, but some sports. does that sound like america to you? parent and students are fighting back. ...

Requiring staff to work fewer hours during the summer, imposing a 17% property tax increase, and closing the district's two middle schools, combining those grades with the elementary school. 50 teachers have already been laid off and there will be more. the district is also can considering eliminating programs and positions like guidance counselors, art programs, gym, choir, band, kindergarten glasses, and not all, but some sports. does that sound like america to you? parent and students are fighting back. >> parents are starting a petition they plan to send all the way to the governor's offic...

Disrupted an auction -- stop laughing. they were protesting the government cutting funds to art programs calling their demonstration an orgy of the rich. they should have called it the worst protest ever. >> you know what i like about the protest, the people who sat there going, why do we wealthy people have to sit through this? >> if you want a reaction, don't go to south beach. >> the most they will do is raise an eyebrow and a molecule will fall out. >> they might bid on you. how much for the drooling man? >> he looks available.

I want to ask you, when you look across the country, you see the protests, the possibility of teacher layoffs. if teachers get cut, what does that mean for the kids trying to get educations? >> they're going to be severely impacted. they're projecting up to 300,000 teacher layoffs nationwide. it's going to right away impact the music programs, the art programs, larger class sizes. they're closing school buildings to consolidate kids into classrooms so that you're probably going to see 35, 40 in a classroom now. >> i know you're familiar with the words of governor christie. he's telling the res...