"Where we as a board and administration messed up was in not catching this sooner; not notifying you, the community, the teachers; not being on top of what is happening now," said Trustee Jeremy Ray. "But we could not have prevented the change to our budget. There's nothing that we can do to control that."
In the face of a looming budget crisis, the Live Oak School District's governing board declined to approve a series of recommended employee cuts, at least for now, at its meeting Wednesday.