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Lawmakers push schools to show what an all-cuts budget looks like
- 04-20-2011
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By Allen Young/Capitol Weekly
Without new revenues, public schools can expect to shoulder at least 40 percent of the cuts needed to close the state’s $12 billion deficit, lawmakers have warned school superintendents. The list of programs that would be targeted for drastic reduction or outright elimination would likely include funding to keep class sizes for kindergarten through third grade at 20 students or fewer, support for school bus services and imposing sooner a new cut-off date for kindergarten. At a hearing late last week before the Senate budget committee, school officials were admonished for not developing budget plans based on a worst-case scenario even at the risk of upsetting their communities. (more...)
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