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Friday, February 10, 2012
SCUSD budget gap grows by $10 million
by Mike Simpson, published on January 19, 2010 at 5:40 PM
Storyline: SCUSD Budget Cuts
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SCUSD budget gap grows by $10 million
School district facing eighth year of reductions
Story By Maria L. Lopez
Photo by BigEducationApe.blogspot.com
Sacramento City Unified School Superintendent Jonathan P. Raymond announced today that the district will need to reduce its 2010-11 general fund budget by $28 to $30 million. The projection was readjusted after review of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s budget proposals.
Raymond said the district had expected to trim $18 million from next year’s budget but revised the estimate after the Governor’s proposals were released.
Raymond said that since 2002-03, SCUSD has cut more than $144 million from its budget. “While the news is not good, we will do what we have to do to meet the needs of our students. We will need the best thinking and efforts of everyone from our staff and parents to community members to meet this new challenge,” Raymond stated. “The priority will be students and what we need to do to create a positive future for them.” The superintendent said the district is undertaking two surveys to gather community input to create a strategic plan and budget. Focus groups were conducted earlier this week to help craft the surveys which will be posted on the district’s web site Jan. 19. “We will use our strategic plan as the filter to plan our budget for next year and beyond, and public engagement is critical to the process,” Raymond said. “We will ask whether each dollar spent and every budget cut puts kids first and supports student learning.” He said the fiscal challenge “cannot and will not” be
used as an excuse for not meeting the needs of students.
“Everything is on the table, and we will be looking at every part of the budget—not just personnel costs which represent 80 to 85 percent of our budget. This requires us to work with all of our unions to get control of our costs to ensure we create a future for our kids. We need to find savings, and we need to generate revenue,” Raymond said.
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