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Oregon Students Angry Over Early Budget Cut Induced Summer Vacations
Aired May 24, 2003 - 07:50 ET
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MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR: In Oregon, many students are getting an early start to their summer vacations. Budget cuts are to blame and some students are feeling cheated.
Jim Hyde of CNN affiliate KP-TV reports from Hillsboro, Oregon.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JIM HYDE, KP-TV CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Students passed out of the classroom, down the hall and into summer. Some were not anxious to go.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Here you go, this front page.
HYDE: The kids in the A.P. Government class at Century High produce a history book every year in the month after they complete the advanced placement test. This May, they had just two weeks.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And it was really hard to pull out the positive from the rubble of all the budget cuts and everything that's being affected.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Due to budget cuts, the quality of this scrapbook we sacrificed to keep the costs within the budget.
HYDE: The work is deliberately primitive in production, but thoughtfully written and discussed with graduates, community and faculty.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Fight respectfully for those programs and for what it is that you believe.
HYDE: They have and they will, the students promised.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Once we take a step back, it's really hard for us to gain forward. So we really need to put up a really strong front.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm on part of the forensics team and we've just sent out three people to one of the elementary schools around here to demonstrate to them speech and debate tactics and try to get that program out into the community.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's unfortunate, until we cut something like football or bad, there's not going to be a change in taxes.
HYDE: Hillsboro will consider a new tax study, perhaps in September. The lessons of this year remain fresh.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Pardon my language, you guys got screwed.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But after everything that's happened, I'm kind of glad, because I think I've learned way more than I could have in a normal school year and going into the next school years, there's absolutely no, no limits to what I can learn.
HYDE: But for now, school's out. So is the sun. And it feels like summer.
In Hillsboro, Jim Hyde, the 10 o'clock news.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired May 24, 2003 - 07:50 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR: In Oregon, many students are getting an early start to their summer vacations. Budget cuts are to blame and some students are feeling cheated.
Jim Hyde of CNN affiliate KP-TV reports from Hillsboro, Oregon.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JIM HYDE, KP-TV CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Students passed out of the classroom, down the hall and into summer. Some were not anxious to go.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Here you go, this front page.
HYDE: The kids in the A.P. Government class at Century High produce a history book every year in the month after they complete the advanced placement test. This May, they had just two weeks.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And it was really hard to pull out the positive from the rubble of all the budget cuts and everything that's being affected.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Due to budget cuts, the quality of this scrapbook we sacrificed to keep the costs within the budget.
HYDE: The work is deliberately primitive in production, but thoughtfully written and discussed with graduates, community and faculty.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Fight respectfully for those programs and for what it is that you believe.
HYDE: They have and they will, the students promised.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Once we take a step back, it's really hard for us to gain forward. So we really need to put up a really strong front.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm on part of the forensics team and we've just sent out three people to one of the elementary schools around here to demonstrate to them speech and debate tactics and try to get that program out into the community.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's unfortunate, until we cut something like football or bad, there's not going to be a change in taxes.
HYDE: Hillsboro will consider a new tax study, perhaps in September. The lessons of this year remain fresh.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Pardon my language, you guys got screwed.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But after everything that's happened, I'm kind of glad, because I think I've learned way more than I could have in a normal school year and going into the next school years, there's absolutely no, no limits to what I can learn.
HYDE: But for now, school's out. So is the sun. And it feels like summer.
In Hillsboro, Jim Hyde, the 10 o'clock news.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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