Between 2010 and 2012 Santa Cruz schools will have to absorb at least $12 million in budget cuts just to keep the city’s educational system solvent.
Between 2010 and 2012 Santa Cruz schools will have to absorb at least $12 million in budget cuts just to keep the city’s educational system solvent, trustees heard yesterday, with Superintendent Gary Bloom warning that the cost could be even higher if the state’s revenue targets are off—just as they have been for the past two years.
One trustee, Don Maxwell, suggested that the school board look at special education. In a recent meeting, the board approved paying contractors $781,000 to service this population, but as Maxwell pointed out, special ed students account for about ).25 percent of a total student population of 7,000. Maxwell went on to compare the spending model for special education to a “runaway freight train.” Read more at the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
