Brace yourself for school budget cuts

Blog by Emily Alpert/Voice of San Diego

Eliminate the school district program on preventing dropouts. Shut down departments that administer programs for gifted and talented students, curriculum, community relations, race relations and adult education. And stop giving students tests that aren't required under No Child Left Behind. Those are some of the options that an internal team has scrounged up to save money in San Diego Unified, which faces a deficit for next school year that could range from $147 million to $203 million. The group, called Budget Reduction Alternatives to Conserve Education -- or BRACE -- was led by Phil Stover, a longtime consultant who was recently tapped as the group's interim chief special projects officer. Brace's goals were to find cuts that would impact as few students as possible, preferably by cutting programs that could be absorbed or replicated by other departments. (more...)

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