Ledgemont Says No to $1 Million in Budget Cuts

Ledgemont Schools Superintendent Julie Ramos was given a simple directive following the Nov. 4 defeat of yet another tax levy: cut $1 million from the district’s budget over the next two years, beginning Feb. 1, 2015. That message came from the chair of the state fiscal oversight commission created to assure Ledgemont’s fiscal integrity and the state superintendent of public schools. “I can tell you I was on a conference call with (commission Chairman) Roger Hardin and the state superintendent himself, with legal counsel and four other folks were in the room, and the directive was a 20 percent reduction,...