We will fight. Reporter teachers and parents are rallying together to protest millions of dollars in mid year budget cuts in a financially strapped Oakland Unified School district. Among the items set to be eliminated, money for school supplies. Our children absolutely do not deserve, our families do not deserve any dollars to come from their school sites where they are already struggling to make ends meet. Schools simply dont get enough money to support our students, to support our staff. Reporter Oakland School Officials Say they need to make 5. 6 million in cuts immediately. 15. 1 million in all this year, and another 11 million next year. To head off potential state intervention and makeup for the miss steps of a previous administration. It depends on who you ask. Depends on what youre talking about. But there have been areas certainly thaw that you could argue there was overspending in the past and thats what were trying to rectify. Reporter while the district claims twothirds cut
On where to start, faced with a sudden budget crisis. The Oakland School board is forced to make millions of dollars in cuts in the middle of the school year. Thanks for joining us. Im kristen sze in for alma dates. Im dan ashley. A special Board Meeting is starting right now. The Education Center in oakland, the story. A lot of people there, lauren. They certainly are. You can probably hear them behind me. These folks just all filed in here. They are chanting, we will not stop, chop from the top. Now they changed that chant. Well let you listen to them just a second. No cuts to schools. No cuts to schools. Reporter now, this is going to be a special meeting of the Oakland Unified School district board. They are going to discuss potential cuts, 15 million this Current School year. You can see these are parents and teachers. They are quite upset about these proposed cuts. They could impact students in the classrooms as well as many as 300 nonteacher positions could be cut. You can see t