Politics & Government
No Drastic Midyear Cuts for Schools, Brown Says
Local school districts will see some reductions, but nothing like the millions of dollars they were facing. For Fountain Valley, the cuts translate into another $220,000 that must be trimmed this year.
School districts were mostly spared from the midyear cuts announced by Gov. Brown today.
Brown said because the state fell $2.2 billion short of the rosy projections anticipated by the state budget the Legislature passed in June, he would have to pull the trigger on some – but not all – of the cuts called for in the budget.
Hardest hit will be higher education, services for the disabled and child care, according to several published reports. K-12 schools will see a small hit – about $248 million – to school-bus transportation, a far cry of the up to $1.5 billion cut schools could have faced.
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"It turns out the cuts are far less than they would have been," Brown said.
Besides school-bus transportation, the state will also reduce its funding to schools by $11 per student.
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In Fountain Valley, the state's cuts translate to $220,000 in all, with $70,000 in general cuts and another $150,000 coming from the transportation budget, according to Steve McMahon, the district's assistant superintendent for business. The district won't cut back on the number of school days, but will have to make some reductions in other areas, McMahon said
