By: Ky Plaskon
Superintendent Robert Leri says it's been a rough few years for
the Tahoe-Truckee school district.
LERI: "Tahoe Truckee's experienced mass layoff
notices to teachers, potential layoffs and the disruption to the
school and to the kids and the whole community was just very
impactful on the kids learning. And so we really want to
avoid that at all costs."
Now he says, they'll avoid it because voters approved Governor Jerry Brown's November tax initiative.
The district will still have to plan for cuts - about a half million dollars a year. But Leri says most of those cuts can be achieved through retirements and looking for efficiencies in programs. Not only that, property tax projections in Tahoe Truckee may mean no cuts would be necessary at all. But Leri's not banking on it just yet.
