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LBUSD faces 'serious cuts' in months ahead
- 12-03-2009
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By Kevin Butler/Long Beach Press-Telegram
The next four months will be full of difficult budget decisions for the Long Beach Unified School District, which faces the prospect of making $90 million in cuts over the next two fiscal years. "Everything is being looked at," said school board president Mary Stanton. Although the LBUSD made cuts recently - including closing its outdoor nature camp program - the upcoming cuts likely will be more painful, Stanton said. "We are getting into some really serious cuts to programs and possibly people," she said. Board members at their next meeting Dec. 15 likely will decide whether to approve the first phase of a budget reduction plan. The first-phase plan calls for increasing class sizes in grades 4 and 5 from 33 students per teacher to 35 students per teacher. (more...)
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