That's because school officials largely skirted a state law ordering them to ignore the possibility of dramatic
midyear budget cuts when planning their finances earlier this year.
On December 13, as OUSD's Board votes on extremely painful
midyear budget cuts, staff will also share their plan to strengthen the district's fiscal management: The FCMAT Action Plan.
The city is telling all public school principals to prepare for a 1.5 %
midyear budget cut.
A $ 223 million
midyear budget cut — the amount that Gov. David Paterson is threatening to take from city schools in January — will do real damage to classrooms if a union survey of the harm already wrought by the $ 400 million in city budget cuts this fall is any indication.
Read about our network's success in curbing a $ 17 million
midyear budget cut in 2009.
In the end, 75 percent of the 2009
midyear budget cut were made in the central offices.
Second, in January 2009, the Interim Superintendent announced a plan to pass nearly 100 percent of a $ 17 million
midyear budget cut on to school sites.
Not exact matches
On the same day that Gov. David Paterson announced that this year's state
budget deficit is growing and could reach $ 3 billion, the UFT joined education, labor, parent and community groups at a Sept. 23 rally on the City Hall steps to try to head off
midyear cuts to schools.
Under the shadow of $ 223 million in proposed state
midyear cuts to New York City schools, the UFT surveyed its chapter leaders in October about the impact of the $ 400 million in city
budget cuts that city schools already absorbed this fall.
UFT President Michael Mulgrew joins educators, parents, unionists and elected officials on the steps of City Hall on Sept. 23 in warning against
midyear school
budget cuts.
With school
budgets already in place, Mulgrew predicted that «any
midyear cuts mean removing services and disrupting continuity of support.»
Some states have already imposed
midyear cuts, including California, which was expected to shed $ 1 billion from its $ 42 billion education
budget.
This modest increase created
budget pressures for the school district that required some
midyear cuts, but the district managed to end the fiscal year with a small surplus.
Those efforts emerge as a priority in the 2010 legislative season, even as many cash - strapped states face the prospect of tough spending decisions — including school
budget cuts — on top of the
midyear cuts they enacted in recent months.
In the 19 states that have already experienced
midyear cuts in higher education, tuition rose an average of 14.4 percent, compared with 6.9 percent in states not undergoing rescissions, the association found in its eighth annual state -
budget survey.
A number of Baltimore schools were forced to eliminate staff this week following
midyear budget cuts.Nearly 130 staff members were left looking for job placements after the city school district imposed
budget cuts because student enrollments turned out to...
A recent ritual of
midyear furlough days and
budget cuts would also be avoided, officials said.
Worst of all, the sequestration will occur in the middle of the 2012 — 13 school year, so educators will have to not only find a way to accurately plan next year's school
budget but also scramble to develop contingency plans to deal with massive
midyear programmatic
cuts should they actually come to pass.
The threat of additional,
midyear cuts to schools posed by the newly adopted
budget plan is unlikely, sources briefed on the deal said Tuesday.