RBUSD prepares for major cuts
Superintendent Steven Keller has begun what has become an annual bad news tour of each campus in the Redondo Unified School District. He meets with teachers and delivers the message that the state, once again, is slashing its budget, meaning the school district must do likewise. This year, however, the news appears to be worse. After trimming $5 million from its $65 annual budget in multiple rounds of cuts last year, Keller believes the district will face another $3 million to $4 million in cuts. The superintendent, in a visit to Lincoln Elementary School on Monday afternoon, painted a stark picture. Last year, unlike most school districts, RBUSD was able to balance its budget without laying off a single employee. “We all agree one layoff of a brother or sister employee is one too many,” Keller said. Such an outcome is exceedingly unlikely this year. “I am not here to advocate for anything other than we’ve got millions of dollars to cut and we are going to have to figure out how to do that, hopefully together,” Keller said. “If we can’t get to the budget number we need, at some point…what happens is attrition and layoffs. That is pretty much what we are looking at.” Governor…
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