This is a problem emblematic of a lot of other school districts around the country these days, but the one in San Jose kinda made us stop a little bit.
Initially, cuts had been made to eliminate athletics altogether at the district level by East Side Union trustees at ALL 11 schools. The tack changed about a month later, but the results still suck...
((HT: Andy Staples/SI.com))
On June 25, when the district's board of trustees reversed an earlier decision to eliminate the district's $1.8 million athletic budget, ((Independence High School Head football coach Norman)) Brown should have been celebrating. Instead, the night was bittersweet.
Because with the passage of the budget that saved sports, Brown lost his teaching job.
Brown's physical education job was one of 80 teaching positions axed as East Side Union struggled to cope with a deficit created by a multibillion-dollar shortfall in the state budget. The cuts eliminated the jobs of six other P.E. teachers, 13 English teachers, 12 math teachers, 11 science teachers, 10 social studies teachers and 28 others. California's state budget crisis has forced its districts to make difficult choices between auxiliary programs (athletics, music, the arts, etc.) and core programs.
FOSG Lisa Amin from KGO-TV/ABC 7 ran this story back at the end of June as a bit of a primer for you...
Staples checks in on a few other states as well...
Don Fernandez, from KPIX-TV/CBS5 in San Francisco has your update.
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