District leaders also addressed parent concerns about elementary school music programs and forced teacher transfers
The San Diego Unified School Board on Tuesday approved a budget that assumes a $114 million shortfall, which will be covered by dipping into reserves. Next year the district will have to figure out another $176 million shortfall projected for the 2025-2026 school year. The San Diego Unified School District on Tuesday adopted a $1.1 billion unrestricted budget for the next fiscal year that assumes a $114 million deficit, which the district will cover by eating up reserves.
And a big difference is that next year, the district will have much less in reserves to make ends meet as it is using up reserves to make ends meet this fiscal year. Its unrestricted ending balance will shrink from $158 million to $43 million in the upcoming school year, San Diego Unified leaders also attribute the shortfall to the expiration of COVID-19 relief funding, chronically declining enrollment, lower student attendance rates — which the state uses to determine funding — and increasing special education costs.
The district’s total budget, including both unrestricted and restricted monies, totals $1.9 billion. Unrestricted dollars are monies the district can choose how to spend, while restricted dollars must be used for certain purposes such as Title I or career and technical education. Just over half the positions eliminated were based in the district’s central office, including 50 special education positions, 48 literacy positions, 29 multilingual education positions and 29 maintenance, custodial and other grounds-related positions.
At last week’s board meeting, Jackson promised that fourth- and fifth-grade music programs would not change or be reduced during the upcoming school year.
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