The Sacramento City Unified School District released findings Thursday from two surveys, which found that keeping class sizes small is the top concern of district employees and community members.
Superintendent Jonathan Raymond said he will use the surveys and other community outreach methods to gauge district priorities as they prepare to cut $30 million from their budget.
Community members, parents, teachers and administrators also ranked up-to-date textbooks, clean schools and one principal per school as common top priorities. Community members and parents responded that Gifted and Talented Education is their third most important priority, while employees ranked it 17th.
The two surveys drew 12,855 responses.
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