Cuts to Aberdeen Public Schools

After last year’s $1.5 billion in K-12 budget cuts, the current proposed budget in the 2010-11 school year cuts about $400 million in additional K-12 funding. The combined cuts are nearly enough to educate more than 225,000 Washington students for a year. Here is the local impact of the proposed cuts over the next two years:

Initiative 728 voter-approved funding to reduce classroom over-crowding-$250,736
Levy equalization funding (to hold down levy rates)-$1,210,499
K-4 funding to hire teachers and reduce classroom over-crowding-$348,663
Value of professional development and training day-$47,389
Full day kindergarten funding-$342,664
Highly capable (Gifted Education) funding-$23,391
Total Cuts to Aberdeen Public Schools-$2,223,341