Now California’s budget crisis looks even more grim, and California’s education system prepares itself for another $3 billion dollars losses. The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) will suffer from another 8,000 layoffs before next year. On top of layoff woes comes word from yesterday’s Board of Education meeting that LAUSD teachers can expect class sizes to go up. “The high school class size would increase on average by two students, with many classes much larger,” explains an LA Times brief.

EM and vy are both slaves to the education-by-the-hour system at the moment, but we have high hopes of being contributing, salaried members of the U.S. educational mindforce. V wants to teach art- music of all things. There’s a good chance no one will ever pay her again to do that. M looks ahead to the effect that public education has on higher education, which even fewer will be able to afford now that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has suggested phasing out the CalGrant altogether.

The debate gets really interesting when EMvy gets into the debate over an urban mythology. Is there really a culture of poverty? What role does this perception of the children and families of the underserved and undereducated have on their opportunites for the future?

Grab a fork: Emvy Talks Education

Technology has eluded us for several weeks but we’re finally getting on track. Fallopia presents EMVY’s first podcast! Just click the blue link and you’ll be taken to a page were you can listen to us cheerfully and critically discussing the implications of our projects and how we understand the internet as a medium for our ideas.

Our primary goal with the podcast is the keep you entertained, for after all, how else do we keep our listeners tuned-in? We’ll admit it, our first podcast is a hodgepodge of randomosity, however each of our podcasts will take up different themes as the weeks go on that will (hopefully) be more than just pure entertainment for our listeners. In the upcoming weeks we’ll be editing several podcasts in the 26 on 6th studios. Some upcoming podcasts will be focusing on the public education in California as well as young graduates and our hopeful economic prospects.

If you have any suggestions for topics you would be interested in let us know. We’re open to anything our listeners want to hear.

Stay Tuned.