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    News Article ● Labor Strike Unions

    Sacramento schools again at risk of financial distress with enrollment declines, new contracts

    April 26, 2022 // Sacramento City Unified School District is again facing financial distress just weeks after it approved labor agreements to end its eight-day teacher strike, Sacramento county education officials said last week. The Sacramento Office of Education gave the district's budget a negative certification, stating the contracts and the strike itself would cost the district millions of dollars and could threaten insolvency.

    180 instructional days approved labor agreements classified employee union Dave Gordon declining enrollment district budget education officials extending school year financial distress financial penalties fiscal penalties general fund balance health care benefits insolvency Local 1021 Los Angeles lost revenue make up time missed class time Oakland potential funding losses Sacramento City Teachers Association Sacramento City Unified Sacramento City Unified School District Sacramento county Sacramento County Superintendent Sacramento Office of Education salary Sawsan Morrar SCTA SCTA President David Fisher SEIU SEIU Local 1021 shut down campuses structural deficit substitutes teacher strike The Sacramento Bee unable to meet its financial obligations