Next round of school cuts expected to rival this one
Blog by Emily Alpert/Voice of San Diego
San Diego Unified has almost wrapped up its budget for the next school year. Now it is beginning to peek at the cuts in store for the year after. How bad is it? Interim finance chief Phil Stover summed it up best: "It is better only in the sense that it's not as bad as this year." The school district is estimating that it will have to cut $127 million from its 2011/2012 budget after slashing nearly $135 million from its budget for next school year. It doesn't help that federal stimulus money that helped San Diego Unified pay for teachers is due to run out next summer. (more...)