{"id":2728,"date":"2008-06-27T15:44:01","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T22:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2728"},"modified":"2008-06-27T16:51:38","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T23:51:38","slug":"cusd-budget-cuts-not-so-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2728","title":{"rendered":"CUSD Budget Cuts Not So Deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One month ago administrators of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadusd.k12.ca.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carlsbad Unified School District<\/a><\/strong> thought they would have to trim $5.6 million from the 2008-2009 budget, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080627-9999-1mi27carls.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. Now, thanks to being reclassified as a &#8220;basic aid&#8221; school district (because of high local property values) the district adopted a $96.6 million budget with only $2 million in cuts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Carlsbad joins several other coastal North County districts &#8211; Del Mar, Solana Beach and Encinitas &#8211; that are designated as basic aid because property values are so high there. Only about 80 of California&#8217;s more than 1,000 public school districts are basic aid districts. . . . That means that over the next fiscal year, Carlsbad Unified is expected to have $3.1 million more to spend than it otherwise would have had as a revenue limit school district.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We don&#8217;t exactly understand all the technical details, but smaller-than-expected budget cuts on education are always a great thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080627-9999-1mi27carls.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One month ago administrators of the Carlsbad Unified School District thought they would have to trim $5.6 million from the 2008-2009 budget, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune. Now, thanks to being reclassified as a &#8220;basic aid&#8221; school district (because of high local property values) the district adopted a $96.6 million budget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}