The Educated Guess: CA breaks another bad record

By Kathryn Baron

More California school districts than ever before are nearing or on the brink of insolvency. The State Department of Education’s Second Interim Status Report for 2011-12, released yesterday, named 188 districts with serious financial problems; of those, twelve have negative certifications, meaning they won’t be able to meet payroll and other bills for this academic year.

It’s a steep increase over the first interim report, released last February, which we wrote about here. At that time, there were seven districts on the negative list and 120 in qualified status. With the increases, more than 2.6 million of California’s 6.2 million school children attend schools facing uncertain financial futures.

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