The budget seems to change on a daily basis ...and Sacramento is not even there!! No tax extension. Now there seems to be insufficient time make a November ballot happen (which is too late anyway).
So what are we left with?
Increasingly, the prognosticators are suggesting that probably the "solution" for 2011-12 is to pass on a loss of $350 per student to schools and districts and then use "smoke and mirrors" for the rest of it. Not surprisingly, neither party seems all that interested in an "all cuts" budget; however NOT solving the problem only makes the issue far worse for the next round. Who knows?
The next big event in this circus is the Governor's May Revision of the Budget -- which would typically be held on Friday, May 13th (auspicious) -- though we never really know when any Governor will deliver this message. The point of the revision is to update us on what the plan given the changes that might have occurred since January (which in this case are many). Speculators aside, this is when we know the Governor's plan for resolving the budget issues -- regardless of the partisanship.
While it does not apply to our District this year, there are essentially 19,000 teachers across California that were issued notices of possible layoff. One would have to speculate that ALL of those teachers would receive the next notice on or before May 15th assuring they will not have employment for the 2011-12 school year.
I'm not sure how it does NOT apply to our district when there are still teachers laid off from last year. Have we been forgotten????
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