BY JIM MILLER
SACRAMENTO BUREAU
jmiller@pe.com
Published: 11 May 2012 10:04 PM
Michael Fine, Riverside Unified School District’s deputy superintendent for business services, can tick off the hard numbers of what four years of recession-era state budgets have meant for his 42,000-student district.
The district has lost $110 million and confronts an annual $20 million gap between revenue and spending. The school year, which spanned 180 instructional days before the recession, is now 176 days.