History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
NEW REPORT: Los Angeles' road to A-G for all
Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
If two budgets weren’t enough, try three
- 02-02-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Not knowing what will happen in four months, most school districts are building two budgets for next year: the good one, if voters in June agree to extend $11 billion in temporary taxes, and the bad one, in case they don’t. Steve Rhoads thinks they should create a third: the (really) ugly. Create that one on the assumption, he says, that the defeat of taxes will result in much bigger cuts to K-12 schools than the administration and most school officials are open to discussing at this point. Rhoads, principal consultant for Strategic Education Services in Sacramento and adviser to several large districts, says his advice is a dose of realism. (more...)
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