get ready more budget cuts coming to your child's school district superintendents around the state found out today how much more they will have to cut because they're not going to get as much from the state. cristina rodda spoke with two superintendents about the additional cuts ... and who they're blaming. cristina? tom, these are state cuts superintendents didn't know didn't know about until recently-- from the smallest to the largest school districts these new cuts are devastating. "i can't live off of rhetoric,i have to be the person who tells our employees were going to cut their jobs or we're going to increase class sizes." as the largest school district in the state-- aps will take a ten million dollar hit... that's on top of the 24 million that was already cut. "somebody missed the boat someplace." he's placing blame on the public education department and the state. "it's about the lack of attention the legislature actually gave to that growth which they typically get, that's what makes this so difficult." public education secretary designant hanna skandera-- says the reason school districts now have to cut more money is because an increase in the number of children needing special education and more teachers receiving extra training. "is there someone to blame absolutely not this is data, data turn on a regular basis same on the same time frame as last year. the same process to follow." artesia superintendent mike phipps says whatever the reason -- this is state education funding at its worst-- he'll have to cut an extra 300-thousand dollars. "these new reductions are going to cost some after school programs to go away they're going to cost us to load up some classrooms." governor martinez had said that budget cuts for schools would not impact the classroom-- superintendents now say with these additional cuts, that won't be possible. i called the governor's office asking for an interview to get her take on this latest problem, but a spokesman said she is reviewing bills today
