Schools budget calls for hard cuts across board
By Jill Tucker/San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco school board will face the unsavory task Tuesday of approving a budget that cuts virtually every program offered to the city's schoolchildren. Art would be cut. Music too. Counselors. Physical education. Books. Summer school. Teachers. Custodians. Administrators. All cut by a little or a lot. The 444-page budget document up for a vote Tuesday, the board's last meeting before summer break, has been months in the works as district officials struggled to figure out how to balance the books despite a $113 million budget shortfall expected over the next two years. (more...)