Smith's plans for cuts and increased revenues

Sam Miller, The Orange County Register "Eliminating some bus routes with few riders and consolidating some bus stops, for a savings of about $1 million; Raising facilities use fees and selling obsolete school buses, part of a plan to raise about $400,000; Cutting staff positions to save about $4.2 million, including $2.1 million in teacher salaries."

Officials don't know whether the cuts will come from laying off people or not filling positions of employees who leave. Teachers under contract can't be laid off, as pink slips would have had to have gone out before March 15. Miller is the South Orange County education reporter for The Orange County Register.