Cuts to Camas 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-$433,127
Levy equalization funding (to hold down levy rates)-$277,381
K-4 funding to hire teachers and reduce classroom over-crowding-$597,250
Value of professional development and training day-$80,883
Full day kindergarten funding-$0
Highly capable (Gifted Education) funding-$40,406
Total Cuts to Camas Public Schools-$1,429,047