MBUSD budget picture brightens but deficits still loom

MBUSD budget picture brightens but deficits still loom

A common adage in the making of public agency budgets is that each adopted budget is only a snapshot in time, given the complexity and fluidity of the revenue sources. But for public schools in California, that snapshot is a blurry polaroid at best, more commonly a botched and largely illegible overexposure. School districts must budget while flying largely blind. The reason for this is every school district is forced to make guesses regarding h…