Schools prepare for cuts

04-04-2011

By Canan Tasci/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

Gov. Jerry Brown's promise not to cut school budgets will soon be broken. The governor's budget proposal earlier this year to close a $25 billion budget gap without cutting funding to K-12 schools was contingent upon voters approving a five-year extension of temporary taxes in a special election in June. But now that Brown's talks with Republicans to put those tax extensions on the June ballot have ended, the anxiety level among local educators is off the charts. Inland Valley district officials were not only hopeful their multiple resolutions supporting the tax extension were being recognized, but that their cries about being cut to the bare bones were finally being heard. That's not the case and they're now faced with cutting $96 million from their budgets. (more...)

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