Cuts to Bremerton 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 | -$396,191 |
| Levy equalization funding (to hold down levy rates) | -$497,392 |
| K-4 funding to hire teachers and reduce classroom over-crowding | -$594,844 |
| Value of professional development and training day | -$74,712 |
| Full day kindergarten funding | -$689,210 |
| Highly capable (Gifted Education) funding | -$36,960 |
| Total Cuts to Bremerton Public Schools | -$2,289,309 |
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