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Alvord Unified School District
- Programs: Switch from Year-Round to Traditional School Year
- Other: Budget Reductions of $5.7 Million; Eliminate up to 132 Teachers, 20 Classified/Management Positions, Limit Substitute Teachers, Freeze Salary Schedules, Offer Retirement Incentive
Banning Unified School District
- Layoff Notices: 25 Certificated Employees, 10 Elementary School Teachers
- Other: Budget Reductions of $2 Million; Cuts to Maintenance, Operations, and Transportation Departments; Use of Retirement Incentive
Brea Olinda Unified School District
- Layoff Notices: 16 Teachers, 2 Administrators
Coachella Valley Unified School District
- Layoff Notices: 201 Personnel
Corona-Norco Unified School District
- Layoff Notices: 263 Teachers
- Programs: Switch Back to Single-Track Schools , Extensive Cuts to Elementary Music Programs
- Other: Budget Reductions of $16 Million, Curtail Travel Expenses
Desert Sands Unified School District
- Layoff Notices: 118 Personnel
- Other: Budget Reductions of $13.3 Million, Possible Elimination of 10 Full-Time Administrative Positions
Hemet Unified School District
- School Closures: Santa Fe Middle School
- Other: Budget Reductions of $9 Million
Jurupa Unified School District
- Layoff Notices: 27 Positions
- Programs: Charge Parents for Busing Students
- Other: Budget Reductions of $5.2 Million, Hiring Freeze
Lake Elsinore Unified School District
- Other: Budget Reductions of $9 Million; Management Cuts; Reducing Workers Compensation Rate and Savings From Retirement Benefits; Reduce District Office Budget by 10 Percent; Cut 13 Administrative Positions, Including Four Elementary School Assistant Principals, the Director of Food Services, the Director of Student Services and Two Assistant Superintendents; Frozen Salaries for Administrators and Confidential Employees Through the End of 2008-09; Eliminated Three School Resource Officers. None of the Five Middle Schools will have an SRO; Shifted Salaries from General Fund to Categorical Funds Wherever Possible, Eliminated Six Teacher on Special Assignment positions at D.O.; Terminated Security Contract and Brought Security In-house; Required All Administrators to Substitute 7 Days Through the End of 2008-09.
Menifee Union School District
- Class Size Reduction: Eliminate
- Programs: Eliminate Elementary and Middle School Counseling, Cut Elementary School Music; Reduce Transportation
- Other: Budget Reductions of $10 Million, Close MES for 1 Year
Moreno Valley Unified School District
- Other: Budget Reductions of $11 Million
Palm Springs Unified School District
- Programs: Cutting After School Programs, Eliminate Intervention Programs for English Learners and Preschool Programs
- Class Size Reduction: Increases Class Sizes
- Other: Budget Reductions of $14 Million, No Raises for Teachers
Riverside Unified School District
- Layoff Notices: 58 Teachers, 108 Full-Time Equivalent Teaching Positions in Fiscal Year 2008-09
- Programs: Eliminate Elementary Music Program, Eliminate SAT Preparation Classes and Online Instructional Program,
- School Closures: Possible Closure of Grant Elementary School
- Class Sizes: Eliminate Class Size Reduction Programs in Kindergarten, First, Second, and Ninth Grades
- Other: Budget Reductions of $26.6 Million, Elimination of 319 Positions, Budget Cuts of $23.6 Million for Fiscal Year 2008-09.
San Jacinto Unified School District
- Layoff Notices: 40 Teachers, 6 Counselors
- Other: Budget Reductions of $4.6 Million, 2 Percent Reduction in Administrative Costs, 5 Percent Reductions in Utilities
Temecula Valley Unified School District
- Layoff Notices: 215 Teachers
- Programs: Cuts to Physical Education, Music, Computer Classes, Eliminate Bus Transportation
- School Closures: 2 Elementary Schools
- Class Sizes: Eliminate Class Size Reduction Programs for Kindergarten Through Grade Three, and Ninth Grade
- Other: Reduce Work Year for Certificated and Classified Employees by Three Days a Year, Freezing Salaries, Budget Reductions of $10.4 Million, Eliminate 111 Positions
Val Verde Unified School District
- Layoff Notices: 30 Teachers
- Programs: Cuts to Transportation, Athletic Programs
- Other: Eliminate 54 Positions; 1 Percent Cut to Classified Employees; Salary Freezes for Administrators, Psychologists, Speech Therapists, Program Specialists
