Sacramento wants to grab Irvine's "excess" property taxes, forcing the school board to cut another $7 million by June 30 in addition to  $11 million IUSD had already made as part of the forced switch to "basic aid"  (ie. relying solely on local property taxes.)

The key cuts are deferring $2 million in new texbooks,  eliminating 25 teachers from the class size reduction program, cutting the GASB set aside in half (ie. delay retirement contributions ), and eliminating adult education.  More complete information is on the web site  and in this pdf .  

The real tragedy is not the budget cuts, terrible as they are. It's the uncertainty.  Teachers who thought they had suurvived the cuts now going to be laid off. How can you expect someone to give their best when they don't even know if they should be job hunting or not?  

One more example of how horribly the Legislature has mis-managed not just the budget, but our state.