A trigger to disaster at schools

10-03-2011

Editorial/San Diego Union-Tribune

With every new downbeat report on state revenue coming out of Sacramento, state leaders’ gamble in crafting a 2011-12 budget – their hopeful assumption that state revenue would rebound – looks increasingly like a losing bet. Supporters of the gamble said it was defensible given Gov. Jerry Brown’s decision to require “trigger cuts” – predetermined spending reductions – if revenue fell short. But as detailed in a grim Sept. 15 letter to Brown by leaders of six professional organizations of California school officials, including the California School Boards Association and the Association of California School Administrators, the trigger cuts in education won’t cover the full shortfall in many districts. In other districts, they will be highly difficult to implement, making bankruptcy a real possibility. (more...)

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