Vista Unified School District


Vista Unified School District is a public school district headquartered in Vista, California, United States. It serves sections of northern San Diego County.
The Vista Unified School District is the 4th largest school district in San Diego County and includes 32 schools with diverse educational programs for kindergarten through adult education students. VUSD has 17 elementary schools, 3 magnet schools, 4 middle schools, 3 comprehensive high schools, 3 alternative high schools, 2 special education schools and 1 adult school. VUSD serves more than 23,000 students and 2,000 adult education students in Vista, as well as sections of Oceanside, San Marcos, Carlsbad and some unincorporated areas of the County.

Schools

Middle and high schools

VUSD is currently in a budget freeze. The district wishes to raise funds on the special needs program but also is trying to secure that the budget isn't drastically affected. The district faced a $19.5 million deficit but they brought it down to about $13.5 million. During the first board meeting relating to what they should cut union workers headed by Union President Bill Faust rallied as Faust believes the district is mismanaging the budget as the board paid out the rest of the former Superintendent Linda Kimble's contract and wished to add 2 extra periods to the schedule of high schools which would've costed about 6 million dollars.
Now as of Nov 7th the district only needs to cut about $13.5 million and might think about cutting technology, equipment, staff, and counselors.
On Friday Nov. 15 the district cut the resource officers in highschools for next years fiscal budget.
The budget problem is also occurring throughout many districts throughout the state of California as districts are having to compensate more for retirement of teachers. Matt Doyle the new superintendent wishes to communicate with the community and the district has released a .