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SFUSD superintendent warns trigger cuts will force millions in reductions, transportation hit singled out

San Francisco Board of Education · December 13, 2011
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Superintendent Carlos Garcia told the board that California's budget 'trigger' means the district must plan for roughly $50 million in cuts over two years, including about $3.6 million from transportation. CSBA leaders called for distributing cuts per ADA to reduce disproportionate impacts on districts with home-to-school transport.

Superintendent Carlos Garcia opened the board meeting by laying out the district’s immediate fiscal challenge after the governor enacted a budget 'trigger.' Garcia said the trigger makes an already difficult budget picture worse and that the district must plan to absorb roughly $50 million in cuts over the next two years. He specifically flagged an estimated $3.6 million reduction in transportation funding as…

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