Over the next month, Pasadena Unified School District leaders will decide how to cut up to $35 million from next year’s budget to resolve a fiscal crisis years in the making.

PUSD ultimately plans to reduce its budget by $83 million over the next three years.

“You are being asked to make difficult but necessary choices,” said Octavio Castelo, director of business advisory services at the Los Angeles County Office of Education. “Reductions, reorganizations and revenue strategies that may be unpopular but are essential to the district's survival.”

Castelo was one of several LACOE officials who presented to PUSD’s board last week . They concluded that without immediate action, the district of 14,000 San Gabriel Valley students will not have enough money to pay its expenses and risks ta

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