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Schools trustees to consider budget cuts; vote on Tuesday
- 02-17-2010
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By Maureen Magee/San Diego Union Tribune
San Diego’s smallest schools could be closed. The future of popular student seminars to Old Town, Balboa Park and Camp Palomar may hinge on donations from the community. And autonomous high school academies could be consolidated or done away with altogether. The Board of Education continued to dissect the San Diego Unified School District’s $1.2 billion operating budget yesterday in an effort to offset an estimated $87.8 million deficit in the fiscal year that begins July 1. No action was taken. Among the moves the school board agreed to consider: closing elementary schools with the lowest enrollments; dismantling — or consolidating — the small-schools initiative that established autonomous academies at Crawford, Kearny and San Diego high schools; imposing salary cuts — perhaps on a sliding scale — for all employees; eliminating or reorganizing its team of administrators known as school improvement officers; and cutting back or finding alternative funding for the Old Town, Balboa Park and Camp Palomar programs. (more...)
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