Local school district officials at the elementary and high school levels are preparing for the worst, as preliminary estimates report that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed mid-year budget cuts could reach as high as $600 per student.

The proposed cuts, totaling approximately $300 per student initially, would cost the Los Altos School District $1.4 million and the Mountain-View Los Altos Union High School District more than $1 million. The district won’t know for sure until Schwarzenegger releases his official budget numbers Jan. 10.

There was no stopping the Mitty machine. The girls volleyball team that sweeps foes like a Dyson does dust bunnies beat Mountain View High in straight games Saturday in the Central Coast Section Division II final at Independence High.

But Mountain View at least made the machine work for its 25-12, 25-22, 25-16 victory. The second-seeded Spartans (28-11) didn’t surrender after top seed Mitty (37-1) dominated them in the first game, in which the Monarchs scored nine consecutive points.

Foothill-De Anza Community College District will be forced to cut an estimated $8 million from its current-year budget and turn away hundreds, perhaps thousands, of returning and prospective students if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s mid-year proposals to reduce community college budgets are enacted.

The proposed $332 million in cuts would impact nearly 263,000 students at California’s 110 community colleges, according to an analysis by the Community College League of California – the equivalent of shutting down the entire University of California system.

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