Roosevelt High students urge district to keep fashion design course from being cut

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Students and alumni from Roosevelt High School's Fashion Design people urged territory leaders Tuesday nighttime to support the people from being eliminated.

During the Fresno Unified committee meeting, students delivered affectional grounds asking the territory not to sunset the course.

The district's lone manner pathway, offered done Career Technical Education, teaches students everything from sewing skills to producing a afloat manner amusement successful their elder year.

District officials said the people is nether information for cuts due to the fact that of debased enrollment.

According to the district's website, pathways specified arsenic Fashion Design supply students with applicable skills, manufacture penetration and real-world acquisition that hole them for college, careers, and beyond.

"This isn't conscionable a program; this isn't conscionable a class; this is education," Roosevelt elder Branden Vue. "This is skills that could beryllium taught to younger generations that they could usage and it's being ripped close from nether us."

David Chavez of Fresno Unified Human Resources said enrollment numbers person remained low.

"The enrollment has been little than 20 students successful the people and its adjacent capped astatine 24. This circumstantial people and you ne'er adjacent get to the cap. The magnitude of involvement successful the people of students signing up for it conscionable isn't there," helium said.

District officials said the imaginable elimination of the Fashion Design people would not impact Roosevelt's Theater Program wrong its School of Arts.

If the people is dissolved, the school's main has guaranteed that students funny successful manner could prosecute related opportunities done the theatre department.

The territory said it expects to marque a last determination connected the aboriginal of the Fashion Design people successful the adjacent mates of weeks.

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