{"id":194180,"date":"2026-02-26T03:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194180\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T03:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:33:14","slug":"fresno-unified-to-vote-on-cutting-200-jobs-amid-77-million-budget-shortfall-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194180\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Unified to vote on cutting 200 jobs amid $77 million budget shortfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Fresno Unified School Board is preparing to vote on a resolution to cut hundreds of jobs after the district announced a budget shortfall this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A meeting got underway at 4:30 this afternoon and according to the schedule, there will be an opportunity for public comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The district confirms about 200 positions could be cut, including preschool teachers, counselors, nurses and campus safety assistants.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The district says it&#8217;s facing a $77 million shortfall and a projected $59 million deficit the following year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Administrators attribute the reduction to declining enrollment and low attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The budget discussion is scheduled for the board meeting&#8217;s open session at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fresno Unified School Board is preparing to vote on a resolution to cut hundreds of jobs after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[39786,112,114,113,90760,90761],"class_list":["post-194180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-budget-shortfall","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-unified-school-board","tag-preschool-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}