Cuts to Ellensburg 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 | -$226,959 |
| Levy equalization funding (to hold down levy rates) | -$272,708 |
| K-4 funding to hire teachers and reduce classroom over-crowding | -$327,521 |
| Value of professional development and training day | -$43,978 |
| Full day kindergarten funding | -$0 |
| Highly capable (Gifted Education) funding | -$21,173 |
| Total Cuts to Ellensburg Public Schools | -$892,339 |
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