To cut $365 million, schools eye furloughs, short year
March 11, 2010 Filed in: Budget &
Finance
Fermin Leal and Scott Martindale, The Orange County
Register Orange
County students are likely to lose up to a week of instruction next
year while classes grow ever more crowded, teachers are let go and
course options shrink. Employee furloughs – up to 10 days long –
have joined class-size increases and teacher layoffs as favored
options for balancing 2010-11 budgets at local school districts,
which need to slash $365.3 million even after consecutive years of
deep cuts...