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TUSD holds desegregation budget study session; magnet, family engagement and multicultural departments propose minimal classroom cuts
Summary
In a third desegregation-funded budget study session, TUSD department leaders presented proposals to reduce non-staff spending while preserving classroom allocations; magnet, family and multicultural leaders warned staff cuts would harm services and described targeted reductions.
Tucson Unified School District department leaders presented their third study-session update on desegregation-funded budgets on March 31, proposing mainly non-staff reductions while asking the governing board to preserve frontline classroom funding.
Superintendent Doctor Trujillo said district desegregation levy revenues remain capped at roughly $63 million by the historical levy structure established in 2008; rising personnel and benefit costs have produced an estimated $3—3.5 million shortfall in the desegregation budget this year. Desegregation-funded departments must submit balanced budgets for board consideration in mid-June.
Cameron Tarabati, senior director over magnet programs, described magnet schools as a vehicle for integration and equity and presented performance data showing magnet schools' aggregate proficiency exceeding district…
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