AVC TRYING TO SLASH COSTS 15 PALMDALE CLASSES MOVING TO LANCASTER.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer LANCASTER - Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. will move 15 spring courses from Palmdale to Lancaster and cancel five Palmdale classes with low enrollment as part its effort to meet impending im·pend intr.v. im·pend·ed, im·pend·ing, im·pends 1. To be about to occur: Her retirement is impending. 2. state budget cuts. A college task force will present recommendations at a special AVC (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264. (2) (Audio Visual C board meeting Thursday for budget cuts totaling $2 million for this school year and up $4.3 million next year, including cutting summer courses. ``We have to move rather soon,'' said AVC spokesman Steve Standerfer. The recommendations included relocating or cancelling evening courses planned at Palmdale High School div style="float:right; margin: 0 0 1em 2em; width: 20em; text-align: right; font-size: 0.86em; font-family: lucida grande, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> '''Palmdale High School to make it easier for Palmdale and Littlerock residents to attend college. That recommendation is already being carried out because spring classes begin in February The cuts are coming in response to the state budget crisis, which is prompting the state Legislature A state legislature may refer to a legislative branch or body of a political subdivision in a federal system. The following legislatures exist in the following political subdivisions: Among the AVC cuts proposed is reducing summer courses this school year to save $450,000 and a cut of $840,000 next school year, a cut that represents 50 percent of the summer school costs. ``We haven't sat down to discuss what classes will be cut,'' Standerfer said. ``What we're saying is, a significant reduction in summer courses would get us to that savings level.'' The budget cut recommendations include Gov. Gray Davis' proposed cuts in the Partnership for Excellence program, aimed at reducing dropout (1) On magnetic media, a bit that has lost its strength due to a surface defect or recording malfunction. If the bit is in an audio or video file, it might be detected by the error correction circuitry and either corrected or not, but if not, it is often not noticed by the human rate, and in certain categorical funds, such as programs aimed at low-income students. The projected cuts in the Partnership for Excellence is $246,000 this year and $1 million next school year. Cuts in categorial funds are estimated at $255,000 this year and $743,000 next year. AVC has already taken a number of budget savings moves, including instituting a hiring freeze Noun 1. hiring freeze - a freeze on hiring freeze - fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level; "a freeze on hiring" . The hiring freeze is expected to save $216,000 this year and $516,000 next year. The college also cut about 160 classes from its spring schedule. Those cuts are expected to save about $450,000 this year. |
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