As S.F. schools struggle, board raises its budget

10-25-2010

By Jill Tucker/San Francisco Chronicle

While San Francisco schools have been squeezing every dime out of their dwindling budgets, the city's school board has increased its own budget each of the past four years, spending more on travel to conferences, taking taxis around the city and paying for a board member's babysitter. All told, the board has increased spending by 28 percent over the past four years, which includes the added cost of televising board meetings as well as increases in staff salaries and benefits, according to 600 pages of public records obtained by The Chronicle. In each of those years, the board failed to stay within a set budget and dipped into the district's primary spending account to cover the difference. (more…)

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