Schools struggle with new budget reality

03-01-2010

By Bruce Lieberman/San Diego Union Tribune

The numbers are staggering: $22 million in Oceanside, $18.3 million in Vista, $16.1 million in San Marcos. Those are the deficits that those school districts are now struggling with for the coming fiscal year. With a continuing state budget crisis and declining enrollment in two of the three districts, money is tighter than it’s been in years. Top officials at the three districts say the cumulative effect on budgets — this is only the latest of several years of cuts — is steadily degrading the quality of education for more than 61,000 children. “We’ve been whittling away for years at the sidelines,” said Gary Hamels, assistant superintendent of business for San Marcos Unified School District. (more...)

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