Lid's off divided Sacramento school board
Published: Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012 - 12:00 am | Page 1A
For more than two years after he was hired, Sacramento City Unified Superintendent Jonathan Raymond delayed closing under-enrolled schools even as the district cut nearly $43 million to deal with funding shortfalls.
Raymond said he wanted to find a way to base school closures on data, such as low enrollment and facility condition, and not politics and the emotional pleas of individual parents and neighborhoods.
But with four trustees up for election, an abrupt new vote on school closures – a cost-cutting approach championed by the teachers union – has fueled both high emotion and accusations of