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South Bay schools relieved, anxious over budget cuts
- 05-17-2010
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By Sharon Noguchi/San Jose Mercury News
Buffeted by successive years of budget reductions, school officials breathed a surprised sigh of relief Friday after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested sparing education from deeper cuts. "I'm glad it's not worse," said Ann Jones, chief budget official of San Jose Unified School District, even as she recited the list of cuts the district already plans for next year: larger high-school class ratios of 33-to-1, fewer administrators and five days of furloughs for every employee. "I don't know how we could have responded to anything deeper than what he's already proposed." In his revised budget released Friday, the governor appeared to cut slightly more than $2 billion from education, with most of the new cuts aimed at child-care programs for the working poor and job-training programs. (more...)
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