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Doomsday budget forecast for schools may not materialize
- 05-23-2011
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By Sharon Noguchi/San Jose Mercury News
After issuing thousands of preliminary layoff notices, drafting budgets with deep cuts and listening to sky-is-falling scenarios that would shorten the school year by a month, California schools now face a startling possibility: There actually may be the same amount of money as this year. Now a preeminent school adviser, whom 90 percent of school districts pay to interpret the state budget and education laws, recommends districts add back the revenues they had planned to cut for next year. Ron Bennett, chief executive officer of the Sacramento-based School Services of California, said districts "will be able to bring back teaching, classified and administrative positions But the rosy advice comes with a caveat: Plan on restoring it, but don't spend it yet. "We're saying do not hire those teachers back until the (state) budget is actually enacted," Bennett said. That might be next month, or later. (more...)
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