萨克拉门托：学区面临1.745亿美元资金缺口，要求各校削减一成预算
位于加州萨克拉门托县的萨克拉门托市联合学区10月20日要求辖下各校校长在本学年将校园预算削减10%，并在周三前提交削减方案。据 EdSource 引述《萨克拉门托蜜蜂报》报道，削减范围限于用品、外部合同等非人事支出，不得动工资。
学区首席商务官 Gerardo Castillo 表示，学区为「校园非人事支出」设定了200万美元的削减目标。这所位于加州首府的公立学区正努力填补高达1.745亿美元的资金缺口，学区领导上周四宣布已设法将缺口缩减了4980万美元。与此同时，学区启动了一项提高学生出勤率的行动，希望通过增加按日均出勤拨付的教育经费增收250万美元。
州财政危机与管理援助小组（FCMAT）首席执行官 Michael Fine 此前警告，若学区无力支付账单，最晚明年1月初须向州议会求援，因为州议员通过拨款法案约需90天；一旦接受州紧急贷款，学区董事会将被剥夺决策权、降格为顾问角色，学监通常会被立即解职。（GSM 据 EdSource 报道）
Sacramento: District Asks Schools to Trim Budgets by 10% Amid $174.5 Million Funding Gap
The Sacramento City Unified School District in Sacramento County, California, on October 20 asked its principals to trim their school-site budgets by 10% this school year, with plans due by Wednesday. According to EdSource, citing The Sacramento Bee, the reductions are limited to non-personnel spending such as supplies and outside contracts and cannot come from salaries.
Chief Business Officer Gerardo Castillo said the district set a $2 million target for cuts to what it calls school-site non-personnel spending. The district, in the state capital, is trying to close a $174.5 million funding gap; district leaders announced last Thursday that they had reduced the gap by $49.8 million so far. The district is also launching a student attendance campaign aimed at increasing revenue by $2.5 million through average-daily-attendance funding.
Michael Fine, chief executive officer of the state Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team (FCMAT), has warned that if the district cannot pay its bills it will have to request help from the state Legislature by early January, as it takes about 90 days for lawmakers to pass a funding bill. If the district takes an emergency state loan, its school board would be stripped of decision-making authority and reduced to an advisory role, and the superintendent is often fired immediately. (GSM, based on EdSource reporting)
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