Acorn's editorial accepted the school district's excuses
      The opinion piece in the March 13 T.O. Acorn , "Decision on school closures comes none too early," said the drop in enrollment is a perfectly valid reason for school closures. Why, why, why is enrollment dropping?
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Declining home values no help to enrollment woes
      I was disappointed by the view put forward by Jeff Baarstad, deputy superintendent of Conejo Valley Unified School District, in the March 6 Thousand Oaks Acorn . He's quoted, "We are hopeful that the housing prices may go down and enrollment numbers will go up . . .
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Start fighting now or all school districts will suffer
      The current fiscal crisis in our state and its grave impact on our public schools is at once embarrassing and perilous. Our esteemed elected officials in Sacramento are making a mockery of our most important and precious resource: the education of our children.
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Critic of our congressman is obviously a liberal
      In response to the March 13 letter from Jerold Drucker ("It's time for fresh ideas in Congress"), my family and I are pleased that we have U.S. Rep. Elton Gallegly supporting our efforts to fight terrorism and hope he gets reelected to continue protecting us.
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Gallegly is no statesman abroad
      On the day after President Pervez Musharraf's party was soundly defeated in the Pakistani election, Congressman Elton Gallegly left a delegation to Israel to pay Musharraf a visit. This visit, at taxpayer expense, sends a message contrary to the Bush administration's claim that a key objective of U.S.
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