School districts brace for economic hard times

Amy Hetzner & Erin Richards:

Flat state funding, dropping enrollments and fears about overburdening local taxpayers are helping to shape some of the most difficult financial decisions that school districts have faced in years.

In response, school officials have proposed staff reductions, maintenance cutbacks, energy efficiencies and other ways to curb costs. What's absent is a reliance on the record levels of new federal funding flowing to the state - already anticipated at $857 million and climbing - for the next two years.

Thus far into school districts' planning for their 2009-'10 budgets:

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 3, 2009 3:00 AM
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