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SDUSD Board favors zero-based budgeting
- 11-20-2009
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San Diego KGTV
A major fiscal crisis looming for the next academic year led San Diego Unified School District Board of Education members Tuesday night to call for a new way to develop its budget. A consensus of the board at a budget workshop requested that financial staffers come up with ways to implement a zero-based budget system, rather than the standard baseline form of budgeting used by most public agencies. None of the five members spoke against the idea. Zero-based budgeting will allow the spending plan to be built from the ground up to incorporate the board's top educational priorities, instead of starting at a planned level of funding and cutting back programs or employees because of poor economic conditions. (more...)
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