RTA challenges RCSD's projected $199M budget gap

Thursday the Rochester Teachers Association posted a letter saying its experts concluded that the projected deficit is actually $17 million. 

When it announced the deficit, the district warned it represented the worst-case scenario.

The $199 million includes debt obligations and the chance of little to no state aid.

The RCSD already cut about 100 teachers this year and more non-teaching staff. 

Now has to show what it's going to cut to balance the budget.

The RTA president is calling the budget gap a "manufactured crisis."

Click here to read the full statement from the RTA.