Faced with a proposal by Gov. Gray Davis to trim $843 million from education spending for this fiscal year, school officials expressed fears today that educational reform efforts might fall victim to the cuts.
Most Japanese move house near the end of the fiscal and school year (in March).
And the fiscal case against school choice falls flat--generally, public schools keep a portion of the per-pupil spending when a child leaves a district for a charter school or a private school, meaning that the amount of funding for traditional public school students actually increases as a result of school choice programs.
It also falls short of meeting the fiscal target the school set last fall, and in an interview, Dr. Bharucha made clear that the school may yet have to be more aggressive about raising revenue.
The promise of $50 billion in state fiscal relief prompted school districts to forgo layoffs.
Without a fuller explanation of the 2percentt restriction, residents are apt to view the school fiscal practices as a "rude surprise".
Under the severe fiscal austerity that school cafeteria administrators operate under, pinching those three pennies is a rational decision, even if it means subjecting children to ammonia-ridden slime that may contain pathogens.
Schools serving military bases may be feeling the squeeze of these tight fiscal times, but schools serving Native Americans face even bigger challenges.
Proposition 13 capped and rolled back property taxes — which had a big impact on public schools' current fiscal crisis — but it did allow school districts and other local governments to propose new taxes if they could obtain approval by two-thirds of the voters.
In Arkansas, where officials invoked state law to take over three districts for fiscal mismanagement, the schools commissioner, Ken James, said he might make the same decisions as Dr. Grasmick in a few years.
