How are other districts making budget cuts and layoffs without closing schools?
Many school districts laid off hundreds of employees and closed schools last year when the state reduced funding to school districts. Last year at this time, the District cut $27 million from this year’s budget and the budgets for the school years of 2009/10 and 2010/11 without having to resort to layoffs and school closures. However, with the budget cuts as deep as they were to school districts from the state this year, there was no way the District could cut $44 million without having to take drastic measures such as reducing class size reduction, reducing staff and closing schools.
