Analysis: San Mateo County schools losing $25 million in state money
By Neil Gonzales/San Mateo County Times
Public school districts in San Mateo County stand to lose more than $25 million in state funds through the 2010-11 fiscal year, according to an analysis released Monday by the California Budget Project. However, that amount is just part of the overall budget cuts that districts are bracing for given the state's $20 billion deficit and other economic factors. "Our numbers are just state numbers," said Jean Ross, executive director of the California Budget Project, a nonpartisan public policy research group. "Depending on the district's individual situation, it could be worse. We just wanted to give people around the state a sense of the magnitude of the reduction in their local school district." The California Budget Project analyzed the governor's proposed fiscal plan and broke down state funding losses in kindergarten to 12th grade education district by district and county by county statewide. (more...)