Officials Plan Cutbacks in Adult School Program

The Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District has planned cutbacks at its 2-year-old adult school beginning this fall, a move district officials say is necessary to keep the program afloat.

The district has slashed its budget from $290,000 for the 1996-97 school year to $212,000 in the upcoming year--a 27% reduction. School board President Ellen Perkins said the district also plans to reduce the number of mailings and advertisements, enforce the required minimum number of students enrolled in each class and cut back on courses offered.

“We have to do this in order to break even,” Perkins said. “This past year we ended in the black, but just barely. The program needs to be able to support itself.”