Budget resolution

The L.A. school board is scheduled to vote later today on a resolution opposing state budget cuts to education. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal includes $4.8 billion in cuts to K-12 education, and L.A. Unified estimates it could lose up to $460 million next year. That would be the district's biggest shortfall ever.

The resolution, sponsored by board members Yolie Flores Aguilar, Julie Korenstein, and President Monica Garcia, "urges the governor and Legislature to discuss all possibilities to solve the budget crisis, including new revenue sources."

The resolution is largely symbolic. School districts throughout the state are discussing laying off teachers or cutting programs to balance their books. Districts must inform employees by March 15 if they could not have a job next year.

-- Jason Song

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[Waste Not]

LAUSD can start with Transportation supervisors driving their own cars to work and picking up a company vehicle
at the Bus Sites, not wasting tax payer dollars in fuel and vehicle use driving from areas like Palmdale to the Valley.