{"id":143,"date":"2011-11-17T14:45:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T22:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=143"},"modified":"2011-11-17T14:45:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T22:45:54","slug":"midyear-trigger-cuts-likely-for-california-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2011\/11\/17\/midyear-trigger-cuts-likely-for-california-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Midyear \u201cTrigger Cuts\u201d Likely for California Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Education Blog<br \/>\nBy Katy Murphy<br \/>\nOriginally posted Wednesday, November 16th, 2011<\/p>\n<p>The news today out of the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst\u2019s Office was not good for public education in California: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lao.ca.gov\/laoapp\/PubDetails.aspx?id=2539\" target=\"_blank\">The LAO has forecasted<\/a> that state tax revenues will fall $3.7 billion short of the level on which the June budget deal was based.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2011\/11\/Trigger-Graph2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-149\" title=\"Trigger Graph\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2011\/11\/Trigger-Graph2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2011\/11\/Trigger-Graph2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2011\/11\/Trigger-Graph2-160x118.jpg 160w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2011\/11\/Trigger-Graph2-240x177.jpg 240w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2011\/11\/Trigger-Graph2-375x276.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>About $1.4 billion in automatic, mid-year cuts to k-12 schools and community colleges will be triggered if the shortfall is $2 billion or greater. Steve Harmon, our Capitol reporter, lays it out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_19349666\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>OAKLAND UPDATE: OUSD spokesman Troy Flint said the district could be forced to absorb midyear cuts of up to $5.5 million, or $190 per student, as a result of the trigger cuts. He said the 2011-12 budget accounts for this possibility. So for this year anyway, he said, \u201cAny impact would be slight and we definitely would not make cuts to schools.\u201d For more about this article go to <a title=\"The Education Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/education\/2011\/11\/16\/midyear-trigger-cuts-likely-for-california-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Education Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Education Blog By Katy Murphy Originally posted Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 The news today out of the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst\u2019s Office was not good for public education in California: The LAO has forecasted that state tax revenues will fall $3.7 billion short of the level on which the June budget deal was based. About &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2011\/11\/17\/midyear-trigger-cuts-likely-for-california-schools\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midyear \u201cTrigger Cuts\u201d Likely for California Schools<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[80,99,127],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kqed_research_local_ag","category-kqed_research_ag","tag-kqed-american-graduate","tag-oakland","tag-schools"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"template_type":null,"featured_image_type":null,"is_audio_post":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}