School boards will sue state this year

01-15-2010

Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess

Sometime this year, the California School Boards Association will sue the governor and the state over the level of state funding for K-12 schools. During the organization’s Forecast Webcast on the state of the economy and its impact on education Thursday, CSBA Executive Director Scott Plotkin reaffirmed what he told me last fall. His message fit the mood of the annual event: one of gloom and frustration. Jannelle Kubinec, associate vice president of School Services of California, Inc., said that the coming school year could be the most difficult yet for school districts. Besides facing a $200 per student cut in funding under the governor’s proposed budget (maybe more after the Legislature is through with it), districts could face cash flow problems and the daunting legal burden of projecting balanced budgets over three years. (more...)

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