In a surprise move, the Sacramento County Office of Education rescinded the Sacramento City Unified School District board’s approval of its new labor agreement with the teachers’ association.
The development came less than a day after the board approved the agreement, which district officials projected would provide about $97 million in financial relief over three years, in part by drawing from the retiree-health trust fund to cover retiree health costs instead of using general fund dollars.
“The long-term financial recovery of the district will take time and require extraordinary fiscal discipline, not just short-term loans and redirected funds, all of which must be repaid,” said David Gordon, Sacramento County Superintendent of Schools in a statement released Friday afternoon…