3/4/2023 0 Comments Budget cuts bfdiIn late September, the Joint Appropriations Committee of Wyoming asked Wyoming’s school districts to envision what operations would look like with 16 percent less from the Wyoming School Foundation. Gordon told the House Education and Labor Committee: “If this worst case scenario were to occur, I will have no choice but to make deep, devastating cuts to my district this coming winter,” cuts that would include “school building closures, reductions of force at all levels of the organization, elimination of student transportation, and all extra-curricular activities, elimination of art, music, physical education and other classes from K-8 schools and of electives from high schools.” This was on top of $23 million in cuts his district made prior to the pandemic! The Cleveland Metropolitan School District, which serves nearly 38,000 children, over 42 percent of whom live below the poverty line, faces a potential loss of up to $127 million in state and local revenue in the upcoming year, including $23 million in K-12, and the elimination of $12 million in state-provided student wellness funds.Įric Gordon, Chief Executive Officer of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD), told a Congressional committee hearing last summer that the district faced losing nearly 25 percent of its net operating budget. The state as a whole has laid off over 2,000 teachers. In Brockton, Massachusetts, 24 teachers received pink slips and the district intends to leave 40 teaching vacancies unfilled, mostly positions in the arts, PE and music departments. Randolph Public School District, located in the Greater Boston, Massachusetts region, has cut its entire K-12 arts, music, and physical education (PE) programs and staff from its 2020-21 budget. Meanwhile, Georgia’s top budget officials told the state’s schools to plan for large cuts for the fiscal year starting July 1, where lawmakers have signed off on a spending plan of about $2.2 billion in budget cuts-including nearly $1 billion less for public schools. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has announced plans to cut $300 million in K-12 funding and $100 million in college and university funding for the current year. Several states have already announced large education cuts. These measures are just the initial expression of what is to come if there is no organized opposition in defense of education, and particularly the arts and humanities. As state governments in the US face deficits estimated to be over $400 billion, school districts and colleges are implementing severe budget cuts, beginning with arts and humanities programs.
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