Massive budget cuts to education

01-04-2010

By Gloria Penner, Ana Tintocalis/KPBS San Diego

GLORIA PENNER (Host): The state’s budget also hit close to home this year on the education front, where massive cuts were made to both K-12 and higher education. So with me now to look at the impact of these cuts is KPBS education reporter Ana Tintocalis. Welcome, Ana. ANA TINTOCALIS (KPBS Education Reporter): Thank you. PENNER: Give us a sense of how much education actually was cut locally in K-12 school districts. TINTOCALIS: Well, I would say hundreds of millions of dollars in San Diego County. And it’s difficult because it varies among public school districts. So take San Diego Unified for example. Over the past year they saw about $200 million cut, a state funding shortfall of that amount of money. And so what they were able to do this past year, which bailed them out basically, was that they put out an early retirement plan for veteran teachers. So veteran teachers took this deal and they left. And that was one way for the district to avoid teacher layoffs. (more...)

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