Cuts to Cusick 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-$22,689
Levy equalization funding (to hold down levy rates)-$0
K-4 funding to hire teachers and reduce classroom over-crowding-$29,031
Value of professional development and training day-$5,780
Full day kindergarten funding-$0
Highly capable (Gifted Education) funding-$2,117
Total Cuts to Cusick Public Schools-$59,618