Take a look at the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District budget

I don't know whose marvelous idea was to put together the budget for the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District this year, in this form. Whoever it was -- and I suspect it was Interim Superintendent Bill Brand -- deserves a hug.

Budgets are beastly creatures by nature. Too many numbers, too many categories, too little explanation.  But this work of beauty -- at least the first 58 pages of it -- contains a lot of explanations. The breakdown of teachers per school and how administrators assign teachers. How much money is being spent in each school site. Where's the money coming from.

It's 332 pages long, and definitely worth your time -- at the very least, the first 58 pages of it are.  And if you're the wonky type and you care about MPUSD finances, you can probably handle the whole enchilada.

And you can find it here.