Comments on: May budget revision: It’s dire http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/05/14/may-budget-revision-its-dire/ Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools Wed, 22 May 2013 19:37:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Katy Murphy http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/05/14/may-budget-revision-its-dire/comment-page-1/#comment-20751 Katy Murphy Sat, 16 May 2009 01:28:46 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=4954#comment-20751 FRIDAY UPDATE: Interim Superintendent Roberta Mayor says the governor’s $5.4 billion scenario could force OUSD to make another $21 million in cuts — on top of the $28 million. I wrote a story today about the development.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_12379249

]]> By: Katy Murphy http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/05/14/may-budget-revision-its-dire/comment-page-1/#comment-20750 Katy Murphy Fri, 15 May 2009 02:13:26 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=4954#comment-20750 Good question.

I should note that public education — which receives some 40 percent of California’s general fund revenue — isn’t the only loser here, by any means. As you can see on the attachment, health and social services (Healthy Families, elimination of drug treatment and crime prevention programs) and prisons (the release of thousands of illegal immigrant inmates to federal custody) figure prominently into the second doomsday scenario.

As does heavy borrowing.

]]> By: Public School Fan http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/05/14/may-budget-revision-its-dire/comment-page-1/#comment-20749 Public School Fan Fri, 15 May 2009 01:58:50 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=4954#comment-20749 Presumably other states are also experiencing similar shortfalls as property taxes and sales taxes fall short of expectations. What are other states doing? Are they also chopping off big chunks of public elementary education? Or is this a unique California thing?

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