Oakland Unified School District’s budget outlook is worse now than it was two months ago, after staff incorporated changes over the summer.
During Wednesday’s school board meeting, Lisa Grant-Dawson, the district’s chief business officer, emphasized that the board must prioritize cutting costs, bringing in more revenue, building up the general fund, and planning for the impact of funding cuts from the federal government.
The board must give direction to the district’s finance department by its Oct. 8 meeting, interim superintendent Denise Saddler told the board in an email earlier this month, so that the department can begin preparing budget adjustments to present by December…