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Shifting state budget puts stress on schools
- 12-13-2011
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By Louis Freedberg/EdSource Extra
California schools in recent years have been coping with uncertain revenue projections and shifting state budgets, with each new budget benchmark lasting only a few months. These increasingly rapid budget cycles are administering an unprecedented dose of insecurity that makes even short term planning difficult and is having an impact on staff morale, said David Gordon, Sacramento County superintendent of schools, and formerly superintendent of the Elk Grove Unified School District, the fifth largest in the state. “We now essentially have three-month budgets in the state,” said Gordon. The budget uncertainties that school districts face, he said, is “not year-to-year, it is almost month-to-month.” (more...)
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