Cuts to Battle Ground 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-$999,775
Levy equalization funding (to hold down levy rates)-$2,491,259
K-4 funding to hire teachers and reduce classroom over-crowding-$1,343,915
Value of professional development and training day-$180,935
Full day kindergarten funding-$0
Highly capable (Gifted Education) funding-$93,268
Total Cuts to Battle Ground Public Schools-$5,109,152