Clickable cuts: new website maps potential education losses
As the LA Times notes today, there’s a handy new online tool to map out potential cuts to school districts across the state.
The map shows the estimated losses per student — in each school district or state Assembly or Senate district — under dramatic education spending reductions that would be part of an all-cuts state budget. The tool uses projected cuts of $764 per pupil. In some districts, it shows the number of pink slips that have gone out.
Torrance Unified, our biggest local district after LAUSD, is facing the largest loss: $18.4 million in cuts, according to the tool. Inglewood follows with a possible $11.7 million loss. Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified comes next with nearly $9 million in cuts.
Los Angeles Unified faces cuts of $498 million, according to the site.
The site, on the K-12 News Network, was developed as a volunteer project by two California parents. It’s a collaboration with the with Parents for Great Education, a Silicon Valley-based nonprofit.
As Howard Blume writes in the LA Times, there’s a reason for putting this data together.
The effort behind it is ostensibly nonpartisan, but one reason for the new reference tool is to increase pressure on a handful of Republican legislators to allow a statewide vote on tax extensions that, if approved, would ease budget shortfalls on school districts.
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