{"id":452613,"date":"2026-09-03T22:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452613\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T22:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:14:12","slug":"fusd-field-trips-restored-after-budget-controversy-superintendent-takes-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452613\/","title":{"rendered":"FUSD field trips restored after budget controversy, superintendent takes responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/fresno-teachers-association-questions-fresno-unified-transparency-over-field-trip-money\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fresno Unified students will once again have access to district-funded field trips this school year<\/a> after funds from a foundation were found.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Misty Her announced Thursday that the Foundation for Fresno Unified Students will fund the centralized field trip program that had previously been eliminated amid district budget cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Her also apologized for how families learned about the original change, saying the district should have communicated directly with parents before the school year began.<\/p>\n<p>The superintendent emphasized that other school-funded field trips, camps, college tours and enrichment programs were never eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>The restoration comes as Fresno Unified faces declining enrollment and tighter finances.<\/p>\n<p>Her warned that additional difficult budget decisions will likely be necessary in the next budget cycle.<\/p>\n<p>The district will also create a new Community Budget Advisory Group, bringing together parents, teachers, students, principals, staff and community leaders to review Fresno Unified\u2019s budget and provide recommendations on future spending priorities.<\/p>\n<p>The full release can be read below:<\/p>\n<p>Letter From Superintendent Misty HerPDF previewPreview PDF<\/p>\n<p>Letter From Superintendent Misty Her about FUSD field trips<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"PdfEmbed_downloadLink__tZFvP\" href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/resources\/pdf\/074dacc1-2f2e-4268-86fd-aaf10f82e7f0-LetterFromSuperintendentMistyHer_5173.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">View PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno Unified students will once again have access to district-funded field trips this school&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-452613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452613","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=452613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}