CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 30, 1998 | LESLEY WRIGHT
Orange Unified School District trustees agreed to start an English immersion program for preschoolers, to hire a public relations officer and to tee off on a girls' golf program before adopting an annual budget of $145 million last week. The budget for the 1998-99 fiscal year is down by several million dollars from last year, largely because finance officials did not have to include the $3 million the district spent to renovate McPherson magnet school, which opened in September.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 20, 1997
The Los Angeles County office of education says it cannot approve the Inglewood Unified School District's 1997-1998 budget because several issues remain unresolved. After the annual review of all 81 county school districts, county officials notified Inglewood last week that its $110-million budget had been disapproved. The review found that several funds had negative balances and business operations needed to be improved.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 12, 1997
The Inglewood Unified School District has completed a three-year fiscal recovery plan on time and has wiped out a $900,000 deficit in its Community Adult School Fund, county education officials said Monday. The adult school's financial woes were part of a $2-million deficit that led the Inglewood Unified School District in 1994 to dip into a state-required 3% reserve.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 21, 1997 | KIMBERLY BROWER
The school board Monday is expected to adopt the district's preliminary $180-million budget for the 1997-98 school year, which is up about $7 million from this year. The increased money comes in part from the district's growth and the state's improved economy. Gov. Pete Wilson's budget for the 1997-98 year proposed a statewide increase in funding of nearly $1.7 billion, including $500 million to help expand the primary class size-reduction program.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 20, 1997 | MIMI KO CRUZ
Employees of the Fullerton Joint Union High School District will receive pay raises of at least 2.65% in the coming year. The raises, which may be slightly higher if the state decides to give school districts money to cover cost-of-living increases, were passed this week by the school board as part of a $76.7-million budget for the 1997-98 fiscal year. The raise is also part of a three-year contract agreement, which last year gave teachers a 5% pay increase.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 7, 1997 | AMY PYLE, TIMES EDUCATION WRITER
In the latest and most extensive review of the Los Angeles Unified School District's troubled computer division, a management audit obtained Friday by The Times strongly condemns a culture of fear and finger-pointing that it says has crippled the entire district. So mismanaged is the system that when auditors asked for a list of major technology projects and the administrators responsible for them, they learned that no such list existed.