<b>Photos:</b> Budget pressures threaten to turn back the clock for L.A. Unified’s disabled students
Second- and third-graders react with pleasure to the sound of a bouncing basketball at the Frances Blend School in Hollywood. The city and state’s budget crises may lead to cuts at the highly specialized preschool-through-sixth-grade campus. See full story(Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
A fifth-grade boy who is blind and also has a cochlear ear implant is taught to recognize the food he is about to eat by touching a spoon full of shredded cheese. It’s part of a class that teaches daily life skills at the Frances Blend School, expected to be affected by L.A. Unified school district’s budget crisis. See full story(Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
At Frances Blend School, a teacher bangs hard on the basketball rim to help guide a blind third-grader’s aim. The specialized school is bracing for effects of the Los Angeles school district’s budget crisis. See full story(Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Preschoolers are guided to the Frances Blend School by a special education assistant. Though blind students can be accommodated at other schools, Blend students have multiple disabilities. See full story(Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
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A second-grade girl rubs her fingers across a ceramic figure at the new outdoor Imaginarium space that’s filled with bas relief figures of animals, insects and human faces at the Frances Blend School. See full story(Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Bumpy tile helps blind students navigate through Frances Blend School. L.A. Unified is planning to shutter 200 classrooms and one campus for disabled children as it struggles to deal with a $640-million deficit. Blend, a highly specialized school, is expected to be affected by the cuts to the district’s program for disabled students. See full story(Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
