Baldwin Park Unified School District: Baldwin park officials plan to use district reserves to make up for the expected loss of $4 million from state funding, out of fear that sending out layoff notices to teachers will cause the district’s best teachers to leave. [San Gabriel Valley Tribune, 3/1/08]

Covina-Valley Unified School District: The district, dealing with declining enrollment before the cuts in state funding, may have to cut a total of $9 million from its budget. Possible cuts include staff reductions, consolidation of schools, and the elimination of class size reduction. As one district official noted, “What the state is doing to us is unfair. Prop. 98 was passed to protect schools.” [San Gabriel Valley Tribune, 3/1/08]

East Whittier City School District: East Whittier’s board managed to set aside about $10 million in recent years, saving for building improvements and buying more student computers. But now they expect to need to use about $4 million of that reserve to make up for lost state funding. [Whittier Daily News, 3/1/08]

El Monte Union High School District: The district expects to have to cut $4.5 million from its budget, and is currently fighting to forestall laying off teachers. [San Gabriel Valley Tribune, 3/1/08]

El Rancho Unified School District: The district in Pico Rivera expects to have to cut $5 million from its budget for next year. It will send layoff notices to about 60 teachers next month, and a committee is reviewing a list of schools for possible closure. [Whittier Daily News, 3/1/08]

Glendora Unified School District: Glendora saw its enrollment decrease by 155 students last year, and anticipates losing another 280 students next year. This, combined with the governor’s proposed cuts in state education funding, have led to an anticipated loss of $5.8 million. The district hopes to eliminate positions through attrition, but may need to lay off up to three teachers. [San Gabriel Valley Tribune, 3/1/08]

Hacienda-LaPuente Unified School District: Officials expect a loss of $3.6 million due to proposed cuts in state education funding, in addition to the $2.2 million lost due to declining enrollment [San Gabriel Valley Tribune, 3/1/08]

Las Virgenes Unified School District (Calabasas, Westlake Village): The district stands to lose $7 million in funding next year based on budget projections, in addition to $325,000 in cuts this year. The district’s Chief Business Official remarked that “The size of this is really leaving everybody speechless. It’s quite amazing that this is being proposed in light of the fact that 2008 is supposed to be the ‘Year of Education’.” [The Simi Valley Acorn, 2/7/08]

Little Lake City School District: The superintendent describes the loss of $1.4 million as, “like taking a skeleton and paring back on the bone … We’ve trimmed and trimmed and trimmed. There’s no more fat, no more flesh, it’s down to the skeleton.” [Whittier Daily News, 3/1/08]

Long Beach Unified School District: The governor’s proposed budget cuts would translate into “deep and damaging” cuts to Long Beach schools of about $3 million this year, and nearly $56 million next year. These cuts would threaten teachers, class sizes, meals for disadvantages children and special needs education. As one district official noted, “Our schools are being held more accountable than ever before for producing measurable gains in student achievement. Ironically, we are supposed to do that with revenues far below what most other states provide for educating their youth, and now the governor proposes cutting that funding even farther.” [Long Beach Press-Telegram, 1/22/08; Gazette Newspapers, 1/24/08]

Los Angeles Unified School District: California’s cash crisis could mean that $373 million for reapirs and over-crowding relief -including 9 schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District could- be cut. LAUSD is faceed with laying off 2.300 classroom teachers. [Los Angeles Times, 12/17/08, 1/13/09]

Pasadena Unified School District: Pasadena Board of Education will meet on January 27th to discuss a possible $5 million in cuts to the next fiscal years budget, after they have already cut $2 million. [Pasadena Weekly, 1/8/09]

Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District: The school board in Palos Verdes recently agreed to $1.2 million in cuts to their current year budget, and $2.5 million in cuts for 2008-09, in response to the expected cuts to state education funding. The district plans to send out 50 layoff notices for next year, and will reduce district office staff by $250,000. The cuts will also lead to the elimination of class-size reduction programs in Kindergarten, third and ninth grades, elementary music programs, and will lead to layoffs of some counselors, librarians, psychologists, nurses and health clerks. [Palos Verdes Peninsula News, 2/21/08]

Pomona Unified School District: While district officials are hesitant to estimate how the governor’s proposed cuts could impact their schools, they note that the district already lost $4 million in per-student funding last year due to declining enrollment, and hast lost a total of $11.7 million in state funding over the past two years, so further cuts are of great concern. [San Bernardino Sun, 1/26/08]

Santa Monica - Malibu Unified School District: The district could face as much as $12 million in cuts over the next 18 months, which could result in larger class sizes.

William S. Hart High School District: Officials in the district, after hours of extended negotiation and debate, voted to approve a package of $10.3 million in cuts that would put them in the position to prepare for the governor’s proposed cuts of 10% in state funding. The long list of cuts and adjustments included increasing class sizes, reducing the district reserve to 3%, and the elimination of freshman athletics and junior high promotion ceremonies, and a series of staff reductions.  State budget cuts mean that a $1.6 million grant for new vocational education facilities cold be taken away. [KHTS-AM 1220, The Signal 12/13/08]

College of the Canyons: College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita has not been able to increase the number of classes offered despite their 17 percent increase in full-time student enrollment. They could also be facing $3 million in decrease of funding for next year. [KHTS, 11/18/08]