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Cabrillo Unified School District faces steep cuts without tax measure
- 03-16-2010
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By Julia Scott/San Mateo County Times
The Cabrillo Unified School District is throwing itself on the mercy of Coastsiders to pass a parcel tax and save the district from having to bridge a $2.5 million budget shortfall with the heaviest cuts in recent memory. If it achieves the two-thirds majority needed, the June tax measure would generate $1.5 million per year for the school district over five years — not enough to take the district's six schools out of the red, but enough to avoid the sweeping layoffs the board of trustees has proposed for September. "I think people are finally starting to realize the impacts for next year," said district Superintendent Rob Gaskill. "That $2.5 million represents a significant reduction in programs, if not the most significant reduction that this district has faced. I can tell you that next year will not be business as usual." (more...)
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