Evergreen school budget set
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Board members for Evergreen Public Schools gave final approval Tuesday to a $239.4 million district operating budget for the 2011-12 school year.
Adopted by a 5-0 vote, the spending plan is 0.9 percent less than the $241.6 million allotted for 2010-11.
Under the plan, Evergreen has cut 10 teaching positions; increased special education student caseloads; and reduced academic coaches, some drug and alcohol intervention specialists and the equivalent of one middle school counselor. The district has dropped fifth-grade environmental science field trips and reduced funding for middle school football and fifth-grade band programs by $175,000 each.
Clerical support is trimmed by $525,000 by reducing worker hours; school supplies and maintenance spending is reduced by $1.3 million; and one district administrator position is eliminated, saving $165,000.
Evergreen’s plan assumes across-the-board salary cuts for teachers and nonteaching employees, pending ratification of collective bargaining agreements.
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